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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Minister's Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 21st February, 1922.

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

NOTE.—“Not elsewhere included” appears as n.e.i.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication or repair of goods within New Zealand” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus † are revised decisions.

Beads for training the blind, on declaration that they have been specially imported for and will be used solely in an institution for the blind.
Interlining-frames used by the blind in writing. | | | |
| As dental appliances (168) .. .. .. .. .. | Free .. | 5 per cent. | 10 per cent. |
| Dental appliances, instruments, and materials, viz. :—
Agate mixing slabs and tablets not exceeding 8 in. by 4 in., for dentists’ use.
Aluminium blanks.
Apparatus for administration of anaesthetics, including gasometers for the operating-room.
Articulating-paper.
Articulators.
Bracket, peculiarly suited to support a dental engine.
Cavity-caps, pins for tooth-crowns, matrices and matrix-retainers, regulating-apparatus, regulating-screws, springs and swivels for dentures, suction plates and discs, and other articles directly applied to the teeth or mouth for temporary or permanent wear.
Celluloid moulding apparatus for dentures.
Chamois cushions and trays for gold foil.
Cone-socket instrument-roll fitted up for holding instruments.
Copper pickle pans and ladles.
Dental foot-power engine.
Dental napkins, unhemmed, for absorbing saliva.
Dental swages.
Dentists’ centrifugal casting-appliance, for gold crowns and gold-inlay work.
Dentists’ compound heater (the “Monson”).
Dentists’ dummy patient, or dental phantom.
Dentists’ dies and die-plates.
Dentists’ draw-press for making shells.
Dentists’ economy heat-cap, used by dentists in crown and bridge work.
Dentists’ electrically driven amalgam-mixer (except the motor, which is to be separately classified under section 137 of the Customs Act, 1913)
Dentists’ flask-presses and moulding-flasks.
Dentists’ flexible cable and sleeve for attaching to electric motor.
Dentists’ Gemouline pressure-casting outfit, parts of—viz., stands and melting-pans.
Dentists’ glass cotton-fonts.
Dentists’ mercury bottles, cow-horn.
Dentists’ mirrors, heads and handles for, whether imported attached or otherwise, when the Collector is satisfied that they are reasonably identifiable as dental mirrors or parts thereof.
Dentists’ mouth gags or props.
Dentists’ pellet-holders.
Dentists’ pestle and mortar of porcelain or glass, if the mortar does not exceed 1⅞ in. in diameter.
Dentists’ rubber dam clamps, holders, and weights; clamps for use with absorbent or non-absorbent fabrics.
Dentists’ saliva-ejectors.
Dentists’ silks and threads, and holders for the same.
Dentists’ soldering-lamps, annealing-lamps, and annealing-trays.
Dentists’ stands, Spurge’s, for holding cylinders of nitrous oxide gas.
Dentists’ sterilizers, electric, peculiarly suited for dental use.
Dentists’ syringes, “Ritter” electrically heated air, for use on a dental engine switchboard.
Dentists’ tooth-separators and separating-sticks.
Dentists’ vulcanizers for vulcanizing dentures, including gas-regulators for vulcanizers.
Dentists’ vulcanizing-flasks. | | | |
| As educational apparatus (624) .. .. .. .. .. | Free .. | Free .. | Free. |
| Educational apparatus, appliances, articles, and materials, viz. :—
Arithmetical frames.
Balances, viz. : Salter’s and similar spring balances, marked to weigh in grammes only.
Balances, spring, marked in kilos and fractions thereof, for demonstration purposes.
Blackboard erasers (strips of felt fixed on a wooden stock).
Blackboard set squares.
Blackboards.
“Boy Scouts’ Signal Instructor,” a washable handkerchief having Morse signals printed thereon.
Brushwork cards, freehand-drawing cards, crayon-drawing cards, and similar cards and sheets.
Chemicals in sets, for carrying out the examination tests set by correspondence schools in practical chemistry, in quantities not exceeding two ounces for each sample of a solid and four fluid ounces for each sample of a solution or liquid.
Compasses for chalk.
Corks cut for kindergarten purposes. | | | |