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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 35

Minister’s Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 3rd May, 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.

*7/40. Oils, claimed to be admissible under the following heading of the Tariff, viz.:—
“Crude petroleum, crude residual oil, once-run shale oil, and crude distillates of petroleum” shall, on and after 1st June, 1922, not be classified under that heading, but as “Oil n.e.i.,” unless they comply with the following conditions (being the standards prescribed by the Minister).
“Crude petroleum,” “once-run shale oil,” and “crude distillates of petroleum” must comply with the following conditions,—
(a.) Heat of bromination more than 4·5° C.
(b.) When 100 c.c.s of oil are distilled in an Engler distillation flask (top of thermometer bulb about 10 mm. below bottom of side tube), after the first 5 c.c.s of distillate has passed over, the next 85 c.c.s shall have a distilling range of more than 140° C.
“Crude residual oil” must comply with the following conditions,—
(a.) Heat of bromination more than 4·5° C.
(b.) When diluted with White Rose kerosene (0·5 gm. oil in 25 c.c. kerosene) it shall give an appreciable deposit on standing in a test-tube all night.
(c.) When a portion of the oil diluted in accordance with the preceding paragraph is further diluted with twice its own volume of kerosene, the solution so obtained shall be darker than standard Bismark brown (0·1 gm. in 1,000 c.c. of water).
(d.) When distilled at a sufficiently high temperature to drive off all oils, the residue shall be more than 6 per cent. by weight of the oil taken.

• Revises decision published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 19th January, 1922.

Minister’s Order No. 3.]

W. B. MONTGOMERY, Comptroller of Customs.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £400 in each case.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 2nd May, 1922.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II, Unclaimed Lands.

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained the whereabouts of the owner, and believe that such owner or an agent of such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than £500.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of April, 1922.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 40 acres, more or less, being middle portion of Allotment 33, Maungataniwha East Parish. Bounded towards the north-east by a road-line, 888 links; towards the south-east by other portion of Allotment 33, 4660 links; towards the south-west by Allotment 32, 850 links; and towards the north-west by other portion of the said Allotment 33, 4587 links. Granted on 17/2/1879 to one Zachariah Vare, of Auckland, Contractor.