New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 22

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✨ Customs Tariff Decisions

MAR. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 699

Minister's Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 5th March, 1923.

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. and m.s. Articles marked thus † are revised decisions.

Record.	Goods.	Classification under Tariff, and Item No.	Rate of Duty.
			British Preferential Tariff.
14/40	A. and m.s., viz.:— Gauge glasses, prismatic, of cut and ground glass, being oblong in shape with rounded ends, and with grooves on one face which reflect the light and so indicate the level of water in boilers	As A. & m.s. (643) ..	Free ..
5/40/3	Yarns, viz.,— Yarn known as “skein yarn” declared for use for caulking the decks, &c., of vessels	As A. & m.s. (643) ..	Free ..
20/151	Articles n.e.i., viz.:— “Rawlplugs,” cylindrical in shape, composed of fibrous material stiffened with gum and with a hole through the centre, used for fixing screws in plaster, brick, stone, concrete, &c.	As articles n.e.i. (644) ..	Free ..
3/23	Bearings, ball, roller, &c., viz.:— Ball or roller bearings, Hoffmann’s or similar pattern, if imported detached from the housing, and including only the balls or rollers, the cages, the inner and outer races, the end covers, and the clamping sleeve and nut when imported with the bearing	As ball bearings or roller bearings (509) ..	Free ..
6/163	Educational apparatus, viz.:— Demonstration charts for use at health and educational lectures given under the auspices of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..
20/24/9	Electric appliances and materials, viz.:— “Siluminite” slabs, plain and unworked, being insulating material suitable for the manufacture of switch-board bases	As insulating material, n.e.i. (433F)	Free ..
2/237/7	Machinery, &c., n.e.i., peculiar to use in manufacturing and industrial processes, viz.:— Bakers’ machines, viz.,— Biscuit-dropping machine, including the moulding-plates therefor (NOTE.—The baking-pans are to be classified as Tinware n.e.i., or Hollowware n.e.i., according to kind)	As machines, &c., peculiar to use in industrial processes (481) (2)	Free ..
2/18/34	Bookbinders’ machines, viz.,— Press, laying or backing, used to shoulder books in process of binding
2/294	Bootmaking and leatherworking, viz.,— Horse-collar leather-blocking machine (The J. D. Randall Company, manufacturers)
2/252	Condenser, for steam-engine or steam-turbine over 750 brake horse-power (NOTES.—(1) Pumps therefor, even if attached to, or forming part of, the condenser, to be classified under Tariff item 462; (2) Piping therefor, if not actually forming part of the turbine or condenser, to be classified under tariff item 403)
2/49/12	Bottle-corking machine, the “Invincible,” hand power
3/296	Galvanizing baths, welded .. ..
2/296	Pasteurizing-machine, specially made for pasteurizing beer, fruit-juices, &c., after bottling (Barry Wehmiller Machinery Company, manufacturers)
2/18/35	Printers’ machines, viz.,— Printing-press, the “Mackay,” for gold- or ink-blocking
2/187/4	Rope and twine making, viz.,— Spinning-machine, for spinning the the fibre into yarn