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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

Minister’s Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 30th January, 1933.

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:—

NOTES.—(a) “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. (b) Articles marked thus † are revised decisions. (c) Wherever the General Tariff rate shown opposite any goods enumerated in these decisions is lower than that provided for in the First Schedule to the Customs Amendment Act, 1927, action has been taken by the Minister under section 11 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1927. In such cases the reduced rate is marked with an asterisk. (d) Steam-engines, gas-engines, oil-engines, and electric or other motors are not, unless otherwise indicated, to be regarded as parts of the machines with which they are imported. (e) Surtax as provided for in section 5 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1930, or primage duty as provided for in section 4 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931, as the case may be, is payable in addition to the duties set out hereunder.

Chemicals, &c., used in manufactures, viz.,—
Sodium naphtha sulphonates, compounds used in the manufacture of insecticide oils | As a. and m.s. (448) | Free | Free. |
| †4/286/3 | Weaving, dyeing, &c., of textiles, materials used in, viz.—
Protocol II N., a liquid preparation for use in scouring and dyeing
(NOTE.—Revises decision on “Protocol Agfa II” on page 79 of the Tariff-book.) | As a. and m.s. (448) | Free | Free. |
| 6/135/9 | Pictures of descriptions approved by the Minister on declaration by a manufacturer that they will be used by him solely in the manufacture of jig-saw puzzles | As a. and m.s. (448) | Free | Free. |
| 3/189/18 | Stoves, ranges, &c., articles and materials used in the manufacture of, viz.,—
Body stampings and handles in the black, for the manufacture of grill-pans for gas-cookers, under such conditions as the Minister may prescribe | As a. and m.s. (448) | Free | 10 per cent. |
| 2/12/4 | Valve bodies of steel or semi-steel, in the rough, for the manufacture of ammonia check valves | As a. and m.s. (448) | Free | 20 per cent. |
| †4/143/2 | Chemicals, drugs, druggists’ sundries, &c., n.e.i., viz.:—
Aniseed, ground
(NOTE.—Revises decision on page 173 of the Tariff-book.) | As drugs n.e.i. (121) | 20 per cent. | 45 per cent. |
| 4/143/2 | Drugs, crude, viz.:—
Aniseed, unground. | As drugs, crude (108) | Free | Free. |
| 27/64 | Essences, culinary or flavouring, containing over 40 per cent. proof spirit, viz.:—
Tincture of lupuli (hops) | As essences, culinary or flavouring, containing over 40 per cent. proof spirit | 40s. per liquid gallon | 40s. per liquid gallon. |
| 2/112/29 | Machinery, &c., and appliances:—
Manufacturing, &c., viz.,—
Brick, tile, and pottery making machines, viz.—
Moulds of rubber for making plaster statues and other ornamental articles | As machinery, &c., peculiar to use in manufacturing, industrial, and similar processes (352) | Free | 25 per cent. |
| †2/49/19 | Filling, packing, and wrapping, viz.—
Bottle-filling machines for filling bottles with liquids
(NOTE.—Pumps for operating such machines, unless forming integral parts thereof, are to be separately classified under T.I. 346.)
(NOTE.—Revises decision on page 407 of the Tariff-book.) | | | |
| 2/342/12 | Filters, viz.—
Gravitation filter, the Seitz “Terra” specially suited for filtering vinegar during the process of manufacture | | | |
| 2/219/3 | Fruit preparing and vegetable preparing, viz.—
“Austral-Otis” cooker and cooler, rotary type, including conveyer or elevator therefor when imported therewith | | | |
| 3/307/15 | Oil separator for removing oil passing over from air compressors to compressed air-delivery pipes | | | |

Minister’s Order No. 52.]

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.