WHEREAS by virtue of a contract dated the twenty-first day of October, 1922, concluded between the Administration of the Territory of South West Africa and a certain joint stock company carrying on business in the Union and elsewhere under the name and style of the Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Company) the sole right and privilege to export stock the produce of this Territory overseas to places outside the Union has been accorded to the aforesaid Company for a period of three years calculated from the date of the ratification by the Union Government of the aforesaid contract;AND WHEREAS it is necessary to make provision for the due carrying out of the provisions of the said contract;NOW THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the powers in me vested, I do hereby proclaim, declare and make known as follows:—
1.
From and after the date of the taking effect hereof, up to and inclusive of the twentieth day of October, 1925, anything to the contrary notwithstanding contained in the Cold Storage Works and Abattoirs Proclamation, 1921, no person shall export any stock the produce of this Territory by sea to any place within the Union and no person other than the Company or any agent or employee of the Company or any person authorised thereto in writing by the Company shall export any stock the produce of this Territory overseas to any place outstde the Union; provided however that the Administrator may accord permission to the Company or any other person to export stock the produce of the Territory by sea to any place within the Union subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.
2.
Any person who shall export or attempt to export any stock contrary to the provisions of section one hereof or who shall cause or procure or take part in the export thereof or who shall contravene or attempt to contravene or fail or neglect to comply with a condition prescribed under any permit issued hereunder shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to the penalties prescribed in section six of the Cold Storage Works and Abattoirs Proclamation, 1921.
This Proclamation may be cited for all purposes as the Cold Storage Works and Abattoirs Amendment Proclamation, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Cold Storage Works and Abattoirs Proclamation, 1921.GOD SAVE THE KING.Given under my hand and seal at Swakopmund this 13th day of January, 1921.GIJS. R. HOFMEYR,Administrator.
