New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 5

Page 170

✨ Customs Tariff Decisions

170 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 5

Minister's Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 16th January, 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.	Rate of Duty: Intermediate Tariff.	Rate of Duty: General Tariff.
†20/47	Educational apparatus, appliances, articles, and materials, viz. :— Arithmetical frames .. .. ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	5 per cent.	10 per cent.
	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)	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Blackboard set squares .. ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	10 per cent.
	Blackboards, of wood "Boy Scouts' Signal Instructor," a washable handkerchief having Morse signals printed thereon Cards—viz., brushwork cards, freehand-drawing cards, crayon-drawing cards, and similar cards and sheets	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	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	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.
	Compasses for chalk .. ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	10 per cent.
	Cress's Ezy-art three-fold book slate, of cardboard, and ABC blackboard, with or without game on back, used in kindergarten schools	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Examination papers, science and art ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.
	Geographical exercise books containing printed outlines of maps showing degrees of longitude and latitude	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	12½ per cent.	20 per cent.
	Globes .. .. .. ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.
	Imitation coins of gilt, bronzed, coppered, or silvered cardboard	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Inclined planes .. .. ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.
	Ink-wells .. .. .. .. Languagephone records, solely for teaching languages Models for schools of art Models, glass, of house-pumps Models of slide-valves for use in Technical Schools	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Models of teeth in wax, showing sections of teeth sound and decayed Models specially suited for teaching drawing, physics, mechanics, building-construction, or engineering	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.
	Omnigraph, a transmitter used in learning telegraphy	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	10 per cent.
	Painting-books, containing pictures to be coloured by children	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Pencil-case and ruler combined, tin ..	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	10 per cent.	15 per cent.
	Pictures illustrating Biblical incidents and bearing a label permanently affixed descriptive of such incidents, not exceeding in invoice price 1s. per dozen Pictures, National Society's, 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	As educational apparatus (624)	Free ..	Free ..	Free.