Oct. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1895

Minister’s Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 14th October, 1936.

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) The rates of duty payable on goods set out hereunder have not been shown except in the case of goods classed under Tariff Items 416, 448, and 449, and of goods admitted (under the provisions of section 11 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1927) at a rate of duty lower than that provided for in the First Schedule to the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1934. Where goods are admitted under the provisions of section 11 aforesaid, 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.

(NOTE.—Shafts of the following descriptions have been approved for admission under the above decision :-

(1) Golf-club shafts of steel, whether in the black, polished, plated, coated with cascin, or otherwise surfaced, but without attachments of any kind.

(2) Golf-club shafts of wood, turned to shape and roughly sand-papered, but not further manufactured.)

| 18-3/27 | Platedware, articles and materials used in the manufacture of, viz.— Knobs and nuts, turned, also cake-dish joints, handles, and egg-cup feet, in the rough | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |
| 18-3/27 | Stampings and spinnings, not built up, of metal (other than precious metal) once buffed, on declaration by an electro-plater that they will be plated by him in New Zealand | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |
| 18-3/27 | Trays or dishes of nickel silver, once buffed, with edges turned over, to be electro-plated in New Zealand | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |
| 18-3/188/7 | Stoves, ranges, &c., articles and materials used in the manufacture of, viz.— “Unity panels,” being electric elements for use in the manufacture of brooders for poultry raising, on declaration by a manufacturer that they will be used by him only in the manufacture (not including repair) of electric-heating appliances (Unity Heating, Ltd., Herts., Eng.) | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |
| | Tinsmiths’ materials, viz.— Spouts, metal, kettle and similar | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |
| †18-3/4/26 | (NOTE.—Revises decision in M.O. 4 respecting “Spouts, copper, for kettles.”) | | | |
| 18-3/193/3 | Vulcanite hand-wheels for use in the manufacture of radiator valves, on declaration by a manufacturer that they will be used by him only in the manufacture (not including repair) of valves in New Zealand | 448 | Free | 10 per cent. |