Board of Trade Notice No. 109—Public Inquiry into Import Duties on Disinfectants, Weed and Scrub Killing Preparations, Insecticides, and Fungicides and Materials Therefor

1. (a) The Board of Trade proposes to inquire into and report upon the question of what rates of import duty should be imposed under the tariff items listed hereunder:

Tariff Item 104: Whole item.
Tariff Item 119: Whole item.
Tariff Item 126: Whole item.

(b) The Board will also inquire into and report upon what rates of import duty should be imposed on the following goods which are for the time being classified under Tariff Items 05 (1), 105 (3), 121 (1), 124 (8), 394 (9), 394 (10), 448 (3), or any other tariff item:

(i) Manufactured disinfectants, sheep dip, weed and scrub killing preparations, insecticides, and fungicides.
(ii) Any materials for the manufacture of such products.
(c) Persons interested may obtain from the office of any Collector of Customs details of the goods admitted under these tariff items, and of the rates of import duty applicable thereto.

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 imposed 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 27 September 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 may obtain from the office of any Collector of Customs or from the undersigned the notes for the guidance of witnesses (2nd Edition) which have been approved by the Board.

5. A typewritten statement of the evidence to be tendered should be lodged with the undersigned on or before 13 September 1955. 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 June 1955.
E. P. DOOGUE, Secretary, Board of Trade.
C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Notice to Mariners

IT is hereby notified that notices to mariners will no longer be published in the N.Z. Gazette as from 20 June 1955. These notices may be obtained from the Marine Department, Head Office, Wellington, or from any Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office.

Wellington, N.Z., 9 June 1955.
G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary for Marine.
(M. 6/2/18)

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1955

SOUTH PACIFIC—NIUE ISLAND—ALOFI

Leading Beacons Changed

LEADING Beacons are now established as follows:

1. Front Leading Beacon (a), a white beacon F.R. (Occas.) near the water-line close S. of the landing pier. Position, 19° 01' 40" S., 169° 55' 13" W. approx.

2. Rear Leading Beacon (b), a white beacon F.G. (Occas.) bearing 123° distant 210 feet from beacon (a) above.

3. A white beacon (c) F.R. (Occas.), on the coast-line about 4 cables northward in position 19° 01' 17" S., 169° 55' 06" W. approx.

Beacons (a) and (b) in line bear 123° and lead into the anchorage. Lights are exhibited only when ships are expected.

Chart Affected: B.A. 968.

Publications: B.A. Light List, Vol. 10/54, 4656; Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. II, 1943, p. 401–402, Supp. 6/54.
Authority: H.M.N.Z.S. Lachlan.
Wellington, N.Z., 8 June 1955.
G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary for Marine.
(M. 3/3/218)

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

IVAN GLEN WILSON TRAVIS, of 37 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Upholsterer, was adjudged bankrupt on 8 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 23 June 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

GEORGE THOMAS JORDAN, of Second Avenue, Tauranga, Garage Proprietor, was adjudged bankrupt on 7 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Magistrate's Court, Tauranga, on Tuesday, 21 June 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee. Auckland.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

FRANK WOOLLEN, of 4 View Road, Campbells Bay, Driver, was adjudged bankrupt on 10 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office on Friday, 24 June 1955, at 2.15 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee. Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ALBERT JOHN GOFF, of Hastings, Poultry Farmer, was adjudged bankrupt on 16 May 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hastings, on the 15th day of June 1955, at 11 a.m.

P. MARTIN, Official Assignee. Courthouse, Napier.

In Bankruptcy—In the Supreme Court, Holden at Wanganui

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the undermentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sitting of the said Court, to be holden on Tuesday, the 2nd day of August 1955, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Bourn, Norman Charles, of Wanganui, Salesman.
Free, Percy Shelley, of Wanganui, Manager.
McMillan, Robert Basil, of Marton, Baker.
Neale, Ernest Alfred, of Wanganui, Poultryman.
Mainwaring, Percy Henry Arthur, of Rapanui, Labourer.

Dated at Wanganui this 13th day of June 1955.
G. C. GORDON, Official Assignee. Wanganui.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

HERBERT EDWARD VARLEY, of Te Awamutu, Painter and Carpenter, was adjudged bankrupt on 9 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Te Awamutu, on Thursday, 23 June 1955, at 10 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee. Courthouse, Hamilton.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ALICE MAUD HISCOX, of Masterton, Married Woman, was adjudged bankrupt on 9 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Masterton, on Tuesday, 21 June 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

L. A. PARLANE, Official Assignee. Masterton.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

DENIS HOW CHOW, of 3 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington, Pastrycook, was adjudged bankrupt on 10 June 1955. Creditors' meeting will be held at 57 Ballance Street, Wellington, on Thursday, 23 June 1955, at 10 a.m.

M. R. NELSON, Official Assignee. Wellington, 10 June 1955.