2094

'Jason'

Coloured shoes, crepe sole-
Child's (4-9)
Misses (10-2)

'Supergrade white tennis shoes, black crepe sole,
outside toe-cap, kick strip, and full sponge
insole-
Women's (3-8) (half sizes)
Men's (5-12) (half sizes)

'Olympic' Supergrade Balmorals-
Men's (5-11), boxed, crepe non-skid sole, full
cushion insole, double at heel

'Champion Sportster' Balmorals-
Full cushion insole, boxed; black (black sole)
and white (crepe sole)-
Men's (5-12) (half sizes)
Women's (3-8) (half sizes)

'Athlete' Balmorals-
Boxed (women's only, 1-8)
Black (black sole)
White (crepe sole)

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December 1954.
The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the
presence of-
[L.S.]
G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
H. W. S. PEARCE, Member.

Board of Trade Notice 102-Public Inquiry Into Import
Duties on Leather, Etc.

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 200-Leather, viz.:
(1) Bookbinders' leather of qualities approved by the
Minister and under conditions prescribed by him.
(2) Chamois leather.
(3) Goat-skins, and kid-skins, however dressed; persians;
reptile skins, dressed or undressed.
(4) (a) Hide leathers, crust or rough tanned, but un-
dressed.
(b) Kangaroo-skins and wallaby-skins, crust or
rough tanned, but undressed.
(5) Hog-skins.
(6) (a) Leather, japanned or enamelled, other than
patent leathers; also such other leather speci-
ally suited for furniture and upholstery work,
as may be approved by the Minister, and
under conditions prescribed by him.
(b) Patent leathers.
(7) Sole leather, being bends each weighing 14 lb. net
or over.
(8) Leather n.e.i.; belts (not being apparel), and belting,
wholly or partly composed of leather.
(9) Parchment or vellum made from skins.

Tariff Item 201-Leather board, or compo, composed of
skivings, split leathers, leather scraps, or the same mixed
with other material, cemented and pressed together, cut
into shapes or otherwise.

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

Tariff Item 200 (1)-
British Preferential: 3%.
Most Favoured Nation: 3%.
General: 10%+.

Tariff Item 200 (2)-
British Preferential: 20%.
Australian Agreement: 15%.
Most Favoured Nation: 30%.
General: 40%+.

Tariff Item 200 (3)-
British Preferential: 3%.
Most Favoured Nation: 3%.
General: 3%.

Tariff Item 200 (4) (a)-
British Preferential: 5%.*
Australian Agreement: 20% or 3d. per lb., whichever rate
returns the higher duty.
Canadian Agreement: 20% or 3d. per lb., whichever rate
returns the higher duty.
General: 30% or 5d. per lb., whichever rate returns the
higher duty+.

Tariff Item 200 (4) (b)-
British Preferential: 5%.*
General: 10%+.

Tariff Item 200 (5)-
British Preferential: 3%.
General: 10%+.

Tariff Item 200 (6) (a)-
British Preferential: 3%.
Australian Agreement: 20%.
Canadian Agreement: 20%.
General: 30%+.

Tariff Item 200 (6) (b)-
British Preferential: 3%.
Most Favoured Nation: 3%.
General: 3%.

Tariff Items 200 (7)-
British Preferential: 3d per lb.*
General: 5d. per lb.+.

Tariff Item 200 (8)-
British Preferential: 15% or 3d. per lb., whichever rate
returns the higher duty.*
Australian Agreement: 20% or 3d. per lb., whichever rate
returns the higher duty.
Canadian Agreement: 20% or 3d. per lb., whichever rate
returns the higher duty.
General: 30% or 5d. per lb., whichever rate returns the
higher duty+.

Tariff Item 200 (9)-
British Preferential: Free.
Most Favoured Nation: 10%.
General: 20%+.

Tariff Item 201-
British Preferential. Is. per lb.*
General: ls. per lb.+.

• 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,
  Pakistan, and Canada.

• Plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the
  amount of duty.

2. During the course of this inquiry the Board will con-
   sider 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 com-
   mencing on Tuesday, 17 May 1955, 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 undernamed.

5. A typewritten statement of the evidence to be tendered,
   compiled in accordance with these notes of guidance, should
   be lodged with the undernamed on or before Tuesday, 3 May

6. Each statement will in general need to be presented
   under oath at the public inquiry by the person tendering it.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1954.
J. C. REDWARD, Secretary, Board of Trade.
C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in Makara County (Notice
No. Ag. 5806)

PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-
General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from
the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act,
hereby publishes the following special order made by the
Makara County Council on the 10th day of December 1954.

SPECIAL ORDER

THAT the Council of the County of Makara hereby resolves by
way of special order pursuant to the provisions of the
Noxious Weeds Act 1950, that

Barberry (Berberis vulgaris),
Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis),
Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and Rubus laciniatus),
Common broom (Cytisus scoparius),
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare),
Goat's rue (Galega officinalis),
Gorse (Ulex, any species),
Greater bindweed (Calystegia sepium),
Heath (Erica lusitanica and Erica arborea),
Hemlock (Conium maculatum),
Milk thistle or variegated thistle (Silybum marianum),
Nassella tussock (Nassella trichotoma),
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea),
Saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus),
Star thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa),
Sweetbrier (Rosa eglanteria syn. Rosa rubiginosa),
Tauhinu or New Zealand cottonwood (Cassinia leptophylla
or cassinia fulvida),
Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum),
Winged thistle (Carduus tenuiflorus and Carduus pycno-
cephalus), and
Woolly nightshade (Solanum auriculatum),