APRIL 10]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Minister's Decisions under Customs Acts

Customs Department, Wellington, 1st April, 1947.

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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) "Within New Zealand" includes "as a" and means (b) Articles marked thus * are ok." articles and materials the rates of duty payable on goods set out in the Tariff have not been shown except in the case of goods classifiable under Tariff items 416, 443, and 449 (2), an Act to amend the Customs Acts (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 II of the Customs Amendment Act, 1930, or of other Customs Acts, unless otherwise indicated, the reduced rate is marked with an asterisk.
(c) Steam-engines, gas-engines, oil-engines, and electric motors are not admitted unless otherwise authorised.
(d) In addition to the duties set out hereunder, or payable under the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931, as the case may be, is payable on importation a primage duty as provided for in section 1 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931.

Recorded

Goods.

| Classified | Rate of Duty |
|------------|--------------|:
| under Tariff | British | General |
| Item No. | Preferential | Tariff | Tariff |

91-4/360/2

Anaesthetics, general or local, viz.:—

• Waita's," Procaine-Amathyzine-Nordefrin"

100

91-4/427/64

Animal glands or tissues, preparations made from, viz.:—

• Choline chloride (Vitamins Ltd., London)
• Folic acid (Note.—Revised decision under T.I. 120 (3) in M.O. 88)
• "Folvate" (Lederle Laboratories, U.S.A.)

120 (1)
120 (1)
120 (1)

91-4/427/72

Animal glands or tissues, live, &c., preparations, viz.:—

• "Folvron" (Lederle Laboratories, U.S.A.)

120 (2)

91-4/294/72

Antiseptics, viz.:—

• Penicillin and its salts in the forms of
  (a) Ointment in collapsible metal tubes.
  (b) Combination with sulphathiazole, sulphanylamide, or any of the "sulpha" drugs.
  (c) Hypodermic or ophthalmic tablets.
  (d) Penicillin dental cones.
• "Phomeros" (Parke, Davis, and Co., Sydney)

100

91-4/294/51

A. and m.s. viz.:—

• Chemicals for use in manufactures, viz.:—
  (1) Soluble oils for wool scouring, &c., viz.:—

  • "Cirrasol O.D." X.L.C., and S.B.
    (2) Oils, essential, natural containing, viz.:—

  • Mixtures of mixtures and synthetic essential oils, &c., viz.:—

    • "Green Palm" soap and perfume

    • Stoves, ranges, &c., articles and materials used in manufacture of, viz.:—

      • Adjustable burner jets, on declaration by a manufacturer that they will be used by him solely in the manufacture (not including repair) of kererosene stoves or ranges for manufacture in New Zealand

      • Toys, materials for manufacture of, viz.:—

        • Masks of dolls' faces, composed of a layer of stiff buckram with superimposed layers of cotton textiles, the whole being bonded together and moulded into the shape of a face, but not being painted.

        (Note.—This decision will be reviewed after 30th September, 1947.)

448
Free
Free.

448
Free
20 per cent.

448
Free
20 per cent.

448
Free
20 per cent.

91-4/427/64

Chemicals, drugs, druggists' sundries, and medicinal preparations n.e.i., viz.:—

• Para-amino-benzoic acid (Vitamins Ltd., London)
• Syringes (except hypodermic and dentists' syringes) of the all-metal cylindrical barrel type having a capacity not exceeding 50 cc.

121 (1)
121 (1)

(Note.—Revised decision on page 107 of the Tariff-book.)

91-12/37/2

Dentists' instruments and appliances, viz.:—

• Dentists' chip blowers
• Dentists' water syringes of the rubber bulb type
• Dentists' water syringes of the all-metal cylindrical barrel type having a capacity not exceeding 50 cc.

134 (2)
134 (2)
134 (2)

Educational apparatus, appliances, articles, and materials, viz.:—

91-20/47/23

The following articles are admitted Free on declaration as under:—

(a) Religious bodies.
(b) New Zealand Dairy Board.
(c) St. John Ambulance Society.
(d) New Zealand Red Cross Society.
(e) Workers' Educational Association.

On declaration by a responsible officer of the organization that:

(i) The projector will be used solely for educational purposes.
(ii) No charge will be made for admission to any lecture or meeting at which the projector is used.
(iii) The projector will be sold or otherwise disposed of without payment of the duty and sales tax otherwise chargeable.

416
Free
25 per cent.

91-4/303/14

Infants' and invalids' foods, viz.:—

• Cascin hydrolysates
• "Dextrin" (Burroughs Wellcome, and Co. Ltd., Sydney)
• "Ledinac" (Lederle Laboratories, U.S.A.)

43

91-10/6/68

43

91-4/308/13

43

Machinery, &c., manufacturing, &c., viz.:—

91-2/314/2

Airfilters, viz.:—

• Brick, tile, and pottery air filters

352

91-2/521/2

Rapid concrete block and brick moulding machine

352

91-2/271/4

Clothing manufacturers' &c., viz.:—

Note.—The decisions on machinery under which "Presses, steam-heated, for pressing garments or laundry" were classed under T.I. 353 (6) (b) does not include:

(a) Presses capable of alternative operation with a dry head.
(b) Pneumatically-controlled presses for laundry use.

These presses will continue to be classed under T.I. 352.

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