Customs Decisions




FEB. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 339

Minister's Decisions under Customs Acts.

Customs Department, Wellington, 2nd February, 1937.
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 418, 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.

Record. Goods. Classified under Tariff Item No. Rate of Duty.
British Preferential Tariff. General Tariff.
21-4/287/54 Animal glands or tissues, preparations made from, viz. :—
Progynon B. Oleosum (Schering-Kahlbaum A.G., Berlin)
120 (1) .. ..
21-4/287/75 Animal glands or tissues, liver, pancreas, pituitary, and thyroid preparations, viz. :—
"Detensyl" (Continental Laboratories, Ltd.)
120 (2) .. ..
A. and m.s., viz. :—
Chemicals, &c., used in manufactures, viz.,—
21-4/139/11 "Mars" Electro Cleaner (Coleman and Appleby, Ltd., Bir- 448 Free Free.
"Mars" Metal Cleaner mingham)
Salts and other chemicals specially prepared and declared for use in electro-plating or immersion-plating with metals including tinning and galvanizing, or in enamelling, viz.—
21-4/139/11 "CandA" bright chrome salts (Coleman and Appleby, 448 Free Free.
"Starbright" nickel salts Ltd., Birmingham)
Weaving, dyeing and cleaning of textiles, materials used in connection with, viz.—
21-7/50/45 "Galponol A.G." (Phoenix Oil Products Corp., Newark, U.S.A.) 448 Free Free.
21-3/223/5 Crankshafts being steel drop forgings unmachined, on declaration by a manufacturer that they will be used by him only in the manufacture, not including repair, of petrol distributing pumps 448 Free 20 per cent.
Upholsterers' materials, viz.,—
21-2/380/6 "Vent-O-Handles" consisting of a piece of spring steel and a piece of webbing, both punched at each end, 2 ventilating eyelets, and 2 metal end pieces, for attachment to the sides of mattresses 448 Free Free.
Articles n.e.i., viz. :—
21-18/80 Sheepboots, rubber, for the prevention and cure of footrot in sheep 449 Free Free.
Bacteriological products, &c., viz. :—
21-4/44/65 "Antipeol" (Medico-Biological Laboratories, Ltd., London) 97 .. ..
"Enterofagos"
21-4/44/24 B. Paratyphosus "A" (Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 97 .. ..
B. Paratyphosus "B" Melbourne)
B. Typhosus
21-4/44/60 "Compligon" (Schering-Kahlbaum A.G., Berlin) 97 .. ..
Calendars, viz. :—
21-6/164/4 "National Safety Council" Calendars 303 .. ..
Gas cooking and gas heating appliances, viz. :—
21-3/257/6 Kettles, "Wear-Ever," gas-heated steam-jacketed (Aluminium Cooking Utensil Co., New Kensington, Pa., U.S.A.) 353 (1) .. ..
Insulin substitutes, viz. :—
21-4/258/2 Synthalin (Schering-Kahlbaum A.G., Berlin) 120 (2) .. ..
Synthalin "B"
Machinery, &c., and appliances, viz. :—
Grinding, emery, and similar, viz.,—
21-2/37/23 "Bolinder" grinding machines specially suited for refacing "Bolinder" planer cutters (J. and C. G. Bolinders, Mek. Verkstads A.-B., Sweden) 351 (6) Free Free.*
Manufacturing, industrial, &c., viz.,—
21-2/162/6 Air heater, the "Ross" oil-fired, for use with an enamelling oven (J. O. Ross Engineering Corp., N.Y., U.S.A.) 352 .. ..
21-2/244/18 Bitumen kettles or tanks, electrically heated 352 .. ..
Bookbinders' machines, viz.—
21-2/44/5 Wire stitching machines for stitching or stapling blocks, pads, pamphlets, &c., and capable of stitching materials of 1/4 in. thickness and upwards (Herfurth and Heyden, Leipzig, Germ.) 352 Free Free.*

* Under section 11, Customs Amendment Act, 1927.



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