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•' Oils —viz., whale-oils and fish-oils, crude; Chinese wood-oil, palm-oil, olive-oil, crude or refined ; " Potassium, chloride and sulphate of ; " Rags, or waste, cotton or linen, for respinning or for paper and pulp-making ; " Rags, woollen, for respinning or for making flock ; " Rubber —viz., crepe rubber ; guttapercha and balata, crude ; " Sodium nitrate ; " Sponges, unbleached; " Strawboard (of Dutch type); " Sugar, unrefined, and molasses ; " Sulphur, in blocks ; " Tanning extracts, vegetable ; " Tanning materials, vegetable—viz., barks, sumach, gambier, and similar materials, ground or powdered ; " Timber, hewn or rough-sawn; also brier-root or similar blocks, rough-shaped for making tobacco-pipes; " Waxes, animal, mineral, or vegetable, refined or unrefined; " Wood-pulp, chemical or mechanical. k) The following are regarded as instances of unmanfactured raw materials for the purposes of these regulations :— " Natural products {e.g., minerals ; animals ; plants; shrubs, trees, vegetables, or parts thereof such as leaves, barks, fruits, pods, nuts, nut-kernels, or roots) which have not been subjected to any industrial process or processes except (a) those primary processes whereby natural products are ordinarily obtained from the farm, mine, forest, fisheries, &c., and (b) the processes of cleaning, separating, sorting, and drying, and of the killing of animals. For example,— " Bones, hoofs, and horns ; tusks (ivory). " Cork, unmanufactured. " Grain or seeds, cleaned or graded, but otherwise unmanufactured. " Logs, unwrought. " Ores, metallic. " Petroleum, crude. ' " Salt, rock. " Skins, raw or sun-dried. " Wool, greasy." F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council. SAMOA CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION AMENDMENT ORDER, 1927 (No. 3). Charles Fergusson, Governor-General. Order in Council. At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of June, 1927. Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa, conferred on him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby amend the Samoa Customs Consolidation Order, 1923, by making the following regulations : — Reguiations. 1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoa Customs Consolidation Amendment Order, 1927 (No. 3), and shall be read with and form part of the Samoa Customs Consolidation Order, 1923. 2. The Second Schedule (Export Duties) to the Samoa Customs Consolidation Order, 1923, is hereby amended by adding theieto the following additional item :—

F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council. AMENDING THE SAMOA IMMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION ORDER, 1924. Charles Fergusson, Governor-General. Order in Council. At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of June, 1927. Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto the Samoa Immigration Consolidation Order, 1924 (hereinafter referred to as " the said Order "). Schedule. (a) By omitting from clause 6 of the said Order the words " the Minister of External Affairs," and substituting the words " the Governor-General in Council " : (b) By omitting from paragraph (a) of subclause (1) of clause 6 of the said Order the words " and that he is not permanently resident in Samoa, or has not at the date of the Order so made been permanently resident in Samoa for at least twelve months, or is an alien not born in Samoa." F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Tariff No. Goods. Rate of Duty. 5 Beche-de-mer .. .. .. $d. per lb.