20 MAY]

Board of Trade Notice No. 87—Public Inquiry into Import Duties on Toys and Fireworks

1. The Board of Trade proposes to inquire into and report upon the question of what rates of import duty should be imposed on toys which are included in Tariff Item 239 (2) and on fireworks n.e.i. under Tariff Item 430.

The present rates of import duty in respect of these items are:

Tariff Item 239 (2)

British Preferential: 20%
Australian Agreement: 25%
Most Favoured Nation: 45%
General: 50%*

Tariff Item 430:

British Preferential: 20%
General: 45%

*Plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty. Where surtax is payable under the British Preferential rate such surtax relates only to goods imported from Ireland (except Northern Ireland), Union of South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Canada.

2. During the course of this inquiry the Board will consider the desirability of reclassifying the goods in question for the purposes of the Customs Tariff. In addition, the Board will consider whether such of the goods in question as are now subject to import licensing should be exempted from the requirements of import licensing, and in respect of such of the goods in question as are already exempt, whether import licensing should be reimposed in respect of any of them.

3. For the purpose of taking evidence on the review of these tariff items, the Board will hold a public inquiry commencing on Tuesday, 10 August 1954, at 10.30 a.m., in the Board Room, First Floor, Departmental Building, Stout Street, Wellington.

4. Any person who intends to tender evidence should comply with the notes for the guidance of witnesses (2nd edition) 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.

5. 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 Tuesday, 27 July 1954. Each statement will in general need to be presented under oath at the public inquiry by the person tendering it.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of May 1954.

R. F. WILSON, Secretary, Board of Trade.

C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Milton
(Notice No. Ag. 5638)

PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, and acting under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act, the Director-General of Agriculture hereby publishes the following special order made by the Milton Borough Council on the 28th day of April 1954.

SPECIAL ORDER

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 3 (1) of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Milton Borough Council hereby declares by way of special order that all of the plants mentioned or included in the First Schedule of the said Act are noxious weeds within the district of the Borough of Milton.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of May 1954.

E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/10/103)

Price Order No. 1552 (Amendment No. 1 of Price Order 1542)
(Laying Mash and Chick Mash)

PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal hereby makes the following amending Price Order—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1552 and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 1542* (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 21st day of May 1954.

3. The Second Schedule to the principal Order is hereby amended by omitting the name of the town of Napier wherever it appears.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of May 1954.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

D. J. DALGLISH (Judge), President.
J. HAISMAN, Member.

[L.S.]

• Gazette, 1 April 1954, Vol. I, page 520.

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BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

JOHN ERNEST BUCK, of Lincoln Road, Henderson, Driver, was adjudged bankrupt on 11 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Monday, 24 May 1954, at 2.15 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ROY FREDERICK STANLEY BRETT, of 2 Short Street, Auckland C. 1, Barman, was adjudged bankrupt on 14 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Friday, 28 May 1954, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

SAMUEL JAMES LUXFORD, of 12 Cheltenham Road, Devonport, Auckland, Commercial Artist, was adjudged bankrupt on 13 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 27 May 1954, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

JOHN BERNARD JENSEN, of Hamilton, Taxi Driver, was adjudged bankrupt on 14 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Friday, 28 May 1954, at 11 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.

P.O. Box 473, Hamilton.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ARTHUR CLIFTON, of Te Kuiti, Mechanic, was adjudged bankrupt on 17 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on Monday, 31 May 1954, at 11 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.

P.O. Box 473, Hamilton.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

WALTER BLAKEY, of 700 Jervois Street, Hastings, Labourer, was adjudged bankrupt on 21 April 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hastings, on Friday, 21 May 1954, at 10 a.m.

P. MARTIN, Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Napier.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

NOTICE is hereby given that an interim dividend of 15s. in the pound is now payable on all accepted proved claims in the estate of REX BEECH, late of Levin, Plumber—bankrupt.

A. R. C. CLARIDGE, Official Assignee.

Courthouse, Palmerston North, 12 May 1954.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

JAMES LAWRENCE WHYTE, of Feilding, was adjudged bankrupt on 11 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Palmerston North, on Tuesday, 25 May 1954, at 2.15 p.m.

A. R. C. CLARIDGE, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

FREDERICK ALBERT CALDWELL, of 4 Tukuka Street, Nelson, Contractor, was adjudged bankrupt on 11 May 1954. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office in the Courthouse, Nelson, on Tuesday, 25 May 1954, at 10.30 a.m.

H. G. JAMIESON, Official Assignee.