In the round resplendence of their portly verbiage, verbatim copies of the new Australian Customs Proclamation were read in Manhattan last week, with relish for their quaintness, with dismay for their portent.
PROCLAMATION
Commonwealth of Australia to wit. Stonehaven Governor General
By His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Whereas by the Customs Act 1901-1930 it is enacted that all goods the importation of which may be prohibited by Proclamation are prohibited imports:
And whereas it is desirable to prohibit the importation of the goods enumerated hereunder, unless the consent in writing of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs has first been obtained:
Now therefore I, John Lawrence, Baron Stonehaven, the Governor-General aforesaid, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby prohibit the importation into the Commonwealth of Australia of the following goods unless the consent in writing of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs has first been obtained:
Glucose
Biscuits
Laundry Blue
Cheese
Candles
Confectionery
Eggs in shell or otherwise
Lemons
Oranges
Dried Fruits excepting dates and figs
Fruits preserved in liquid
Vegetables, salted or preserved in liquid or partly preserved or pulped
Cornflour
Jams and Jellies
Jelly Crystals and Powders
Lard and Edible Fats
Meats, preserved in tins or other airtight containers
Pork, preserved by cold process
Milk, dried or in powdered form
Milk, malted
Cocoanut, prepared
Peanut Butter
Onions
Pickles, Sauces and Chutney
Seed, Canary
Soap and Soap Substitutes
Starch
Starch Flour
Custard Powders
Furs and other skins partly or wholly made into apparel or other articles
Blankets (excepting Printer's Blankets) and Blanketing
Rugs except floor rugs
Curtains and Textile Blinds
Tents and Sails
Barbed Wire
Cultivators, except Handworked Cultivators
Harrows
Stump Jump Ploughs
Drills (Fertilizer, Seed and Grain)
Reaper Threshers and Harvesters (including Stripper Harvesters)
Horsedrawn Hay Rakes
Chaffcutters and Horse Gears
Agricultural Scarifiers
Petrol Pumps including parts thereof
Electric Heating and Cooking Appliances
Wireless Receiving Sets partly or wholly assembled
Wireless Headphones
Batteries, including Dry Cells and Accumulators
Bolts, Nuts, Rivets, Engineers' Set Screws
Rail Dogs and Spikes
Wire and other Nails
Electric Smoothing Irons
Plated Ware other than Spoons, Forks and Cutlery
Aluminium Ware other than Spoons and Forks
Baths and Sinks
Tiles
Opal Sheet Glass
Sanitary and Lavatory Articles of earthenware and glazed or enamelled Fireclay
Glue
Cements and prepared Adhesives
Gelatine of all kinds
Vinegar and Acetic Acid
Cast-iron Pipes and Cast-iron Fittings for Pipes
Shafting (other than flexible)
Iron and Steel Beams, Channels, Girders. Joists, Columns, Trough and Bridge Iron and Steel
Portland Cement
Ale and other Beer, Porter, Cider and Perry,— Spirituous
Potable Spirits
Perfumed Spirits and Bay Rum
Wines including unfermented grape wine
Vermouth
Manufactured Tobacco
Cigarettes
Cigars
Snuff
Matches and Vestas including book matches
Locomotives
This Proclamation may be cited as Customs Proclamation No. 186