Feb. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 535

MINISTER’S DECISIONS UNDER CUSTOMS ACTS—continued.

As educational apparatus (624)—continued.

Examination papers, science and art.

Geographical exercise books containing printed outlines of maps showing degrees of longitude and latitude.

Globes.

Imitation coins of gilt, bronzed, coppered, or silvered cardboard.

Inclined planes.

Ink-wells.

Kindergarten sheets, having illustrations of animals, &c., printed thereon.

Languagephone records, solely for teaching languages.

Models for schools of art.

Models, glass, of house-pumps.

Models of slide-valves for use in International Correspondence Schools.

Models of teeth in wax, showing sections of teeth sound and decayed.

Models specially suited for teaching drawing, physics, mechanics, building-construction, or engineering.

Omnigraph, a transmitter used in learning telegraphy.

Painting-books, containing pictures to be coloured by children.

Pictures illustrating Biblical incidents and bearing a label permanently affixed descriptive of such incidents, not exceeding in invoice price 1s. per dozen.

National Society’s pictures specially prepared for distribution to Sunday-school scholars in class, and similar pictures in series, specially suited for Sunday-school use, and illustrating Biblical subjects, history, or topography; not exceeding in invoice price 5d. per dozen, net.

Plaster casts, being drawing-models.

Plaster casts of anatomical subjects for illustrating biological lectures.

Plasticine in boxes, and tools for working same, suitable for use in kindergartens and schools.

Plasticine in bulk or otherwise.

Plasticine, empty tin boxes for, branded “Kapai” and “Students,” 7 in. by 2 in.

Pointers, for use with blackboards.

Pulley-blocks, wooden, being models for demonstrations in mechanics classes.

Rubber stamps of the human body.

Signalling-heliograph for Boy Scouts.

Slate-eraser, “The Heriot Hill.”

Slate-pencils, slates, and slate-pencil holders.

Slated paper and slated cloth (“Lapilinum”).

Technicon apparatus for piano-pupils.

Tellurians.

“Virgil Clavier’s” piano-keyboards for pianoforte-pupils.

Wall diagrams.

Wall pictures in sets on map rollers or sticks, specially suited for teaching in Sunday-schools.

Wolf’s music time-blocks.

The following articles are admitted free on declaration as under,—

Band instruments for public schools, on declaration that they have been specially imported for use in connection with the school, and will not be disposed of without payment of duty.

Demonstration apparatus, for teaching students at hospitals, on declaration by a responsible officer of the Hospital Board that it will be used solely for demonstration purposes in the hospital only.

The following are admitted free on declaration that they have been specially imported and will be used solely for educational purposes in a school, college, or university, and that they will not be removed therefrom without payment of the duty,—

Apparatus, appliances, and instruments peculiarly suited for teaching chemical analysis and assay work.

Apparatus, appliances, and instruments peculiarly suited for teaching the sciences of biology, engineering, geology, mechanics, metallurgy, mineralogy, physics, and psychology.

Apparatus for teaching bookbinding at technical schools.

Benzine lamps for use in laboratories.

Brushes, test tube.

Castings, electrical.

Chemicals.

Colour-saucers, for use in mixing colours.

Demonstration lantern, prismatic compass, and gyroscope.

Developing-dishes, water-glasses, water-stills, bottle-brushes, cork borers and pressers, and razors.

Electrical apparatus.

Hot-air motor and ice-crushing machine for laboratory.

Limelight apparatus.

McDougall’s specially prepared drawing-linoleum for use instead of blackboards.

Monoscopes.

Pelton wheel, friction-brake, venturimeter, and low-fall experimental turbine for demonstration or experimental purposes.

Photographic developing bath and frame.

Pictures and engravings, provided that they will be hung only in the school premises.

Pulleys, pulley-blocks, and miniature jib-cranes, for demonstration purposes.

Pump and motor combined, for demonstration purposes.