290 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 11

The Standards Act 1941—Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 24 December 1964, amended the under-mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: NZSS 1844:1964 Portland cement (ordinary and rapid hardening).

Amendment: No. 1.

Application for copies of the standard specification so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Wellington C.1, or to the Government Bookshops at Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin.

Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1965.

V. FAIRHALL,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.

(S.I. 114/2/3:1358)

The Standards Act 1941—Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 24 February 1965, amended the under-mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: NZSS 1131:1953 Malleable cast iron and cast copper alloy pipe fittings for steam, air, water, gas, and oil (screwed B.S.P. taper thread or API line pipe thread); being BS 143:1952.

Amendment: No. 1 (PD 4965).

Application for copies of the standard specification so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Wellington C.1.

Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1965.

V. FAIRHALL,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.

(S.I. 114/2/3:1365)

The Standards Act 1941—Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 24 February 1965, declared the under-mentioned specifications to be standard specifications:

Number and Title of Specification Price of Copy (Post Free)
s. d.

NZSS 696—Valve fittings for compressed gas cylinders—
Part 1:1965 Valves with taper stems (excluding valves used for breathing and medical purposes); being BS 341: Part 1:1962 (Revision of NZSS 696:1950 being BS 341:1945) 12 6
NZSS 1955:1965 Steel tubes for cycle and motor cycle purposes; being BS 1717:1951 ..... 3 0
NZSS 1956:1965 Cycle rear lamps; being BS 3648:1963 ..... 4 6
NZSS 1957:1965 Methods for stability testing of fork lift trucks; being BS 3726:1964 ..... 5 0

Application for copies should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Wellington C.1.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1965.

V. FAIRHALL,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.

(S.I. 114/2/2:2621–24)

The Standards Act 1941—Draft New Zealand Standard Specification No. D 7685A—Method of Measurement of Building Works (Parts 8 to 11) (Revision of NZSS 670:1951)

PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 8 of the Standards Act 1941, notice is hereby given that the above-mentioned draft New Zealand standard specification is being circulated.

All persons who may be affected by this specification and who desire to comment thereon may, on application, obtain copies on loan from the New Zealand Standards Institute, Bowen State Building, Bowen Street, or Private Bag, Wellington C.1.

The closing date for the receipt of comment is 31 May 1965.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of March 1965.

V. FAIRHALL,
Acting Executive Officer, Standards Council.

(S.I. 114/2/8)

Land and Income Tax Act 1954: Interest on Income Tax Paid in Advance

PURSUANT to section 207 of the Land and Income Tax Act 1954 as amended by section 89 (c) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1957, the Minister of Finance has prescribed that interest at 2½ per cent per annum will be credited on advance payments of income tax made by a taxpayer, being a subsisting company* or a public authority (other than either of them in the capacity of a trustee or agent) or a Maori authority, on account of income tax becoming payable during the financial year ending 31 March 1966, provided the total interest so calculated amounts to 5s. or more.

Advance payments carry interest for each complete month commencing from 7 March 1965 or the date of payment (whichever is the later) to 6 February 1966 inclusive.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1965.

L. J. RATHGEN, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

*“Subsisting company” means a company which was incorporated before the 26th day of July 1957, but does not include a company which, by virtue of an election under section 42 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1957, has become a provisional taxpayer.

Classification of State Highways

PURSUANT to regulation 3 of the Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1955,* the Commissioner of Transport, as required by the National Roads Board, hereby revokes so much of the Warrant dated the 18th day of December 1961†, as relates to the portions of the State Highways described in the Schedule hereto and hereby declares that the portions of the said highways shall belong to the class as set out in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

State Highway Classified in Class One

No. 67 State Highway (Westport-Karamea) (from the northern boundary of Westport Borough to Waimangaroa Bridge).

No. 6 State Highway (Blenheim-Invercargill via Nelson and Greymouth) (from Charleston Post Office to a point 3 miles measured southerly generally along the said highway from the said Post Office).

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of February 1965.

R. J. POLASCHEK, Commissioner of Transport.

*S.R. 1955/59 (Reprinted with Amendments Nos. 1 to 4: S.R. 1961/159)
Amendment No. 5: S.R. 1963/70
Amendment No. 6: S.R. 1963/199
†Gazette, No. 82, dated 21 December 1961, Vol. III, p. 1990 (TT. 8/8/145)

The Indecent Publications Act 1963

THE Indecent Publications Tribunal having considered the application of the Comptroller of Customs in respect of the books, namely, two novels by Guillaume Apollinaire—The Debauched Hospodar and Memoirs of a Young Rakehell, and also of Justine by de Sade, has classified the said two novels as indecent unless circulation is restricted to persons professionally engaged in the study of abnormal psychology, who desire to use them for that purpose. The said book Justine is classified as indecent unless its circulation is restricted to psychologists or psychiatrists or any adult bona fide student of literature or philosophy.

Dated this 24th day of February 1965.

E. M. SMITH, Secretary.

In the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963 and in the matter of a Reference from the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington for a decision regarding certain books, namely, two novels by Guillaume Apollinaire—The Debauched Hospodar and Memoirs of a Young Rakehell, and also of Justine by de Sade.

DECISION AND REPORT

THE tribunal has been called upon to classify two books, each a translation into English from the French in which they were originally written. One book comprises two novels by Guillaume Apollinaire, the other a translation of de Sade’s Justine, the copy before the tribunal being somewhat defective. The books had been imported by Mr D. W. Cheer, of Christchurch, and had been detained by the Comptroller of Customs who claimed them to be forfeited under the provisions of the Customs Act 1913 as “Prohibited Imports” being—it was claimed—indecent articles. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, proceedings for condemnation had been instituted by the comptroller before a Magistrate who had, as required by section 12 of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, referred to the tribunal for determination the question whether the books were indecent within the meaning of the Act, or indecent in the hands of persons under a specified age, or indecent unless circulation was restricted to specified persons or classes of persons.