APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1241

Minister's Decisions under Customs Duties Act.

Department of Trade and Customs, Wellington, 2nd April, 1912.
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:

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited 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.

(1) If attached to engines
(2) If detached from engines | As parts of oil-engines (385)
As electric generator (169) | Free .. 20 per cent.
10 per cent. 5 per cent. |
| 12/383 | Felt, viz:—
“Keystone hair insulator,” material consisting of cowhair between sheets of insulating paper or asbestos | As felt sheathing (457) | Free .. 10 per cent. |
| 12/573 | Gas-regulators, to provide uniform supply of gas to gas-engines | As part of gas-engines (385) | Free .. 20 per cent. |
| 12/400 | “Hektograph” composition, for use with cyclostype | As stationery n.o.e. (148) | 20 per cent. 10 per cent. |
| 12/353 | Hoops, tinned, for the manufacture of milk-cans | As tinned hoops (366) | Free. |
| 12/542 | Leather chin-straps for military hats | As leather manufactures n.o.e. (101) | 20 per cent. 10 per cent. |
| 12/426 | Machine, tools, engineers, &c.:—
Boiler-tube hand cleaning-machine for cleaning handhole fittings | As engineers’ machine tools (379). | Free. |
| 12/390 | Machinery, woollen-mill, viz.:—
Tentering-machine | As woollen-mill machinery (165) | 5 per cent. 10 per cent. |
| 12/530 | Machines, type-casting, viz.:—
Matrix rolling-machine, steam drying-press, and matrix plate and hand roller, used in type-casting | As type-casting machines (166) | 5 per cent. |
| 12/517 | Machinery, n.o.e., viz.:—
Paper slitting and rewinding machine (claimed as cardboard-box-making machine) | As machinery n.o.e. (182) | 20 per cent. 10 per cent. |
| 12/278 | Sand, loam, and mortar grinding mill (claimed as metal-workers’ machine tool) | | |
| 12/401 | Onions and gherkins in brine which contains acetic acid, manufactured by H. J. Heinz and Co. (invoiced as “sweet onions” and “sweet pickles”) | As pickles (19) | 3s. the gal. |
| 11/1825 | Organs are to be deemed to be manufactured in New Zealand within the meaning of Tariff item 326, provided the following parts are made in the Dominion:—
Delivery-boxes, back-pressure boxes, reservoirs or bellows, wooden air-trunks, case-work, structural frame, and all fixings and supports for these articles. | | |
| 11/1825 | Organs, action-work for (Tariff item 326), to include keys, key-valve action-box, action-chest, sound-boards, swell-boxes, trackers, wires, supports and racks for the foregoing articles, and trays for compo tubing. | | |
| 12/483 | Pan for making meat-extract | As manufactured articles of metal n.o.e. (183) | 20 per cent. 10 per cent. |
| 12/548 | Scientific apparatus, viz.:—
Apparatus for testing the strength of oxygen-cylinders | As scientific apparatus (280) | Free. |
| 12/416 | Soap, viz.: “Safona” liquid sanitary soap | As liquid soap (242) | 20 per cent. |
| 12/321 | Speed spark, being powdered naphthalene.. | As naphthalene (271) | Free. |
| 12/279 | Sugar, “Avona" | As glucose (13) | 1d. the lb. |

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Secretary of Customs.

Minister's Order No. 999.]