Board of Trade Notice No. 54—Public Inquiry Into Import Duties on Electric Irons, &c.

1. The Board of Trade proposes to inquire into and report upon the question of what rates of import duty should be imposed under the following tariff items:—
   Tariff Item 338 (13).—Electric irons.
   Tariff Item Ex 353 (8) (c).—Electric ironing machines and clothes pressing machines (other than those classified under Tariff Item 352).

The present rates of import duty in respect of these items are:—
Tariff Item 338 (13).—
British Preferential: 20% plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty in respect of goods imported from Ireland (except Northern Ireland), Union of South Africa, India and Pakistan.
Australian Agreement: 30%.
Canadian Agreement: 30%.
Most Favoured Nation: 40%.
Switzerland: 40%.
General: 50% plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty.

Tariff Item Ex 353 (8) (c)—
British Preferential: 20% plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty in respect of goods imported from Ireland (except Northern Ireland), Union of South Africa, India and Pakistan.
Australian Agreement: 30%.
Canadian Agreement: 30%.
General: 50% plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty.

2. For the purpose of taking evidence on the review of these items, the Board will hold a public inquiry commencing on Thursday, 30 July 1953, at 10.30 a.m., in the Board Room, First Floor, Departmental Building, Stout Street, Wellington.

3. Any person who intends to tender evidence should comply with the notes for the guidance of witnesses which have been approved by the Board. A copy of these notes may be obtained from the office of any Collector of Customs or from the undersigned.

4. A typewritten statement of the evidence to be tendered compiled in accordance with these notes of guidance, should be lodged with the undersigned on or before Thursday, 16 July 1953. Each statement will, in general, need to be presented under oath at the public inquiry by the person tendering it.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of April 1953.

R. F. WILSON, Secretary, Board of Trade.
C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Board of Trade Notice No. 55—Review of Import Licensing

It is hereby notified that the Board of Trade has examined the objections lodged to the proposed exemption from import licensing of the following items in the Import Licensing Schedule and has decided not to recommend decontrol until after a review of the appropriate tariff duties takes place.

Tariff Item. Description.
Ex 338 (2) Ballasts, chokes, or other current limiting devices for the control of fluorescent lamps.
Ex 338 (5) Transformers, chokes, radio frequency coils (other than intermediate frequency coils or transformers suited to a can not exceeding ⅞ inch in smallest dimension of cross-section), radio frequency units, valve shields, coil cans, chassis, dial mechanism, dial scales, complete dials, and loudspeakers, suited for use in wireless-broadcast receiving sets (excluding parts for the assembly of loudspeakers, also loudspeakers less than 3 inches or not less than 12 inches diameter and loudspeakers specially suited for outdoor use).
Ex 448 (3) Collapsible metal tubes.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of April 1953.

R. F. WILSON,
Secretary, Board of Trade.
C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Price Order No. 1460 (Amendment No. 2 of Price Order 1450) (Main Crop Potatoes)

Pursuant to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, hereby makes the following amending Price Order:—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1460, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 1450* (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).
2. This Order shall come into force on the 20th day of April 1953.
3. The principal Order is hereby amended by omitting all references therein to imported potatoes.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of April 1953.
The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
D. W. A. BARKER, Member.

*Gazette, 26 February 1953, Vol. I, page 267.

Price Order No. 1461 (Australian Potatoes)

Pursuant to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, hereby makes the following Price Order:—

1. This Order may be Cited as Price Order No. 1461, and shall come into force on the 20th day of April 1953.
2. Price Order No. 1409* is hereby revoked.

Application of this Order

3. This Order applies with respect to all potatoes imported into New Zealand from Australia and sold by way of retail in the North Island.

Fixing maximum retail prices of potatoes to which this Order applies

4. The maximum price that may be charged or received for any potatoes to which this Order applies that are sold by way of retail shall be determined as follows:—
   (a) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate within a radius of twenty miles from the principal Post Office at Wellington, the maximum price shall be 7d. per pound.
   (b) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of business is situate elsewhere in the North Island, the maximum price shall be 7½d. per pound.

Duty imposed on retailers

5. Every retailer who offers or exposes any potatoes to which this order applies for sale in any shop shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the potatoes to which it relates as to be obviously descriptive thereof a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated in legible and prominent characters the word “Australian” and the retail price per pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of April 1953.
The seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
D. W. A. BARKER, Member.

*Gazette, 18 September 1952, Vol. III, page 1534.

Bankruptcy Notices

In Bankruptcy

Notice is hereby given that dividends are now payable in the undermentioned estates on all proved claims:—
Robert William Alexander, Auckland, Fruitierer, first and final dividend of 10d. in the pound.
Peter Paul Joseph Atkins, Auckland, Reporter, first and final dividend of 2s. 10d. in the pound.
Sylvia Marion Kett, Auckland, Married Woman, first and final dividend of 5s. 8d. in the pound.
Charles Richard Bertram Legae, Auckland, Salesman, first and final dividend of 5s. 8d. in the pound.
Clarence Victor Whittle, Nihotupu, Contractor, first and final dividend of 8½d. in the pound.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Dilworth Buildings, Customs Street East, Auckland, 10 April 1953.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

Robert Wide Watson of Wakefield, Contractor, was adjudged bankrupt on the 7th April 1953. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office in the Courthouse, Nelson, on Thursday, 16 April 1953, at 2 p.m.

H. G. JAMIESON, Official Assignee.