JULY 15.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1827

Minister's Decisions under Customs Duties Act.

Department of Trade and Customs, Wellington, 9th July, 1909.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Minister of Customs has decided to interpret the
Customs Duties Act in relation to the undermentioned articles as follows:—

*“Articles and materials suitable only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the Dominion” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus † are revised decisions.

Record.

Good.

Classification under Tariff, and item
No.

Rate of Duty.

General
Tariff.

Preferential
Surtax on
Foreign Goods.

09/1006
09/1086
09/993
09/1193
09/1176
09/1032
09/995
09/1202
09/1205
09/1059
09/1250
09/1222
09/1222
09/996
09/1028
09/1063
09/1015
09/1056
09/1110
09/1322
09/1077
09/1026
09/1164
09/1322
09/1078
09/1182
A. & m.s., viz.:—
Clock-movements and parts of unfinished
clocks; unfinished cases for clocks
taken to pieces to avoid duty
Kitten-heels, wooden or pyrolite, un
finished
Venetian blinds, cord-knot holders for
Machine parts for use in making
battery, hanging-reins, &c.
Zinc-sheets
Gall-troughs, rollers for horses’ legs
Bank-notes, blank
Book-post-book
Boiler-furnaces, welded, but unflagged
Book-bindings, “binders’ boards,”
Glass, kid dressing; “makers’ inks and
binders” for book
Certificate of merit for proficiency in reli
gious knowledge
Electrical apparatus, viz.:—
Grove battery cells and dissecting sets, for
experimental work and demonstration, on condi
tion that they will be used for teaching
purposes only
Switchboards
Electrical appliances, viz.:—
Resistances for motors, consisting of trans
former, coil, rheostat, and switch
Filter-presses for brewing purposes
Marble tiles for dados for building walls
and partitions
Machinery, parts of, wood and leather com
bined
Machinery, paper-mill, viz.:—
Ripling and rolling machine
Paper-coating machine, for cutting paper
for all classes of trade purposes
Nutall-Beddon patent lay-boy machine,
for collecting and jogging paper from
into sheets and laying it down
Microscope-slides, for
Microscope-slides for use in Dominion
Microscope-slide cabinets, †imported full of
slides
Minor articles for making up apparel, viz.:—
Cotton bands, perforated, for binders, for
“shirt-collars”
“Bulbeedd” red flooring—a paper material
Scientific apparatus, viz.:—
Braun’s dice pulveriser for crushing ore
samples
Layden jars
Tableware, fittings for, viz.:—
Bronze-springs
Elliptic springs, imported separately
Elliptic springs, combined with stirrup
straps, or other attachments
Stirrup-bolts
Wine, unfermented, sweetened, without
spirit

As a. & m.s. (485)

As machinery (113)
As printed stationery n.o.e. (166)
As book-post (252)
As welded boiler furnaces (428)
As book-polish (252)
As printed stationery n.o.e. (166)

As educational apparatus (445)

As electric appliances n.o.e. (190)
As druggists’ sundries n.o.e. (84)
As manufactures of (262)
As leather manufactures n.o.e. (111)

As paper-mill machinery (179)

As machinery n.o.e. (126)
As slides for microscopes (387)

As minor articles for making up
apparel (400)
As n.o.e. (486)

As scientific apparatus, &c. (288)

As manufactured articles of metal
n.o.e. (197)
As material for the manufacture of
carriages, &c., viz., springs (437)
As manufactured articles of metal
n.o.e. (197)
As manufactured articles of metal
n.o.e. (197)
As beverages n.o.e. (65)

Free.

20 per cent.
20 per cent.
Free.
Free.

20 per cent.

20 per cent.

Free.

20 per cent.
20 per cent.
20 per cent.
20 per cent.

5 per cent.

20 per cent.
Free.

Free.
Free.

20 per cent.

Free.

20 per cent.

20 per cent.

20 per cent.

10 per cent.
12½ per cent.
10 per cent.
10 per cent.

12½ per cent.

10 per cent.
12½ per cent.
10 per cent.
10 per cent.

10 per cent.

10 per cent.

10 per cent.

10 per cent.

10 per cent.

Note.—Decision on page 41, “Tanning extract, mixture of tannin extract and sugar,” should read “Tanning extract, mixture or
tannic acid and sugar.”

Minister's Order No. 910.]

RICHD. CARTER,
Secretary and Inspector.