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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19808, 9 December 1938, Page 15

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OVERSEAS REMITTANCES .POSTAL MONEY ORDERS RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE FRLSII REGULATIONS (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. With the announcement of the Government’s new measures for the conservation of the London funds, fresh regulations were issued regarding Post Office money orders and the sending of remittances abroad.

The regulations came into force yesterday and .the limit fixed on money orders is £lO a week.

Before yesterday there was no limit to the amount of money a person could send abroad, though single money orders for more than £4O were not issued.

Under the new regulations, however, no person is permitted to obtain more than £lO in money orders in one week. The limit on British postal orders is £lO a week. Money orders for smaller amounts than the limit specified may be purchased each week, but the total value of orders must not exceed £lO.

The same principle applies to British postal orders. In the past a person could purchase several money orders to the value of £4O each with no limit on the total sums remitted. A person wishing to send £4O by money order to London, for example, would be required to obtain a £lO money order each week for four weeks, unless special permission was obtained from the Treasury to remit the money in a lump sum.

TRADE REGULATIONS

LIST OF EXEMPTIONS IMPORTS AND EXPORTS (I’cr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Under the import control regulations just issued, the following exceptions from the requirements of license were gazetted last night:—Goods which were on board ship for export to New Zealand on December 5, 1938, Goods which were ordered prior to December 5, 1938, and which are imported into New Zealand not later than December 31, 1938.

Bona fide gifts and goods not exceeding 1110 in value, New Zealand currency, in respect of any one importation imported by post by persons for their own use and not for the purposes of sale or business. Goods imported for exhibition at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and entered to be warehoused in the exhibition bond goods being the property of the Crown in respect of the Government,of New Zealand.

Goods referred to in Sections 139, 140 and sub-section 2 of Section 141 of tlie Customs Act, 1913.

Also goods included under the following items of the customs tariff:—

Heirlooms not exceeding in value £IOO on such conditions as may be approved by the Minister.

Natural history specimens and such ethnological or similar specimens as may be approved by the Minister.

Official supplies, uniforms, flags and such other articles as may be approved by the Minister for the ollicial use of consular officers, trade commissioners or other accredited representatives of any British or foreign Government.

Passengers’ baggage and effects which arc not intended for any other person or persons or for sale; shipbuilders’ models of vessels suited only for exhibition and models of inventions as may be approved by the Minister.

Under the export licenses regulations, the following goods will be subject to the regulations- according to another Gazette notice: —Scrap metal and gold exported through the Post Office.

The following goods shall for the time being not be subject to the said regulations:—

Bona fide gifts. Goods being bona fide passengers’ baggage and effects. Goods exported temporarily for repair and return.

Goods exported to the South Sea Islands provided that the collector is satisfied that the quantities so exported are not in excess of the usual quantities shipped by the exporter concerned.