13 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
477

The Standards Act 1965—Standard Specifications Revoked

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 24 January 1969, revoked the under-mentioned standard specifications:

Number and Title of Standard Specification

NZS 1066:1952 Methods for the chemical analysis of liquid milk; being BS 1741:1951. (Superseded by NZS 2246:1969.)

NZS 1326:1961 Strength tests for the protective toecaps of footwear used for industrial purposes; being BS 953:1952 amended to meet New Zealand requirements. (Superseded by NZS 2245:1969.)

NZS 1327:1962 Men’s leather safety boots and shoes. (Superseded by NZS 2245:1969.)

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 1969.

G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.

(S.A. 114/2/7:157–159)

The Standards Act 1965—Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 24 January 1969, declared the under-mentioned specifications to be standard specifications:

Number and Title of Specification
Price of Copy (Post Free)
$

NZS 2245:1969 Leather safety boots and shoes with protective toe-caps
1.00

NZS 2246:1969 Methods for the chemical analysis of liquid milk and cream
1.25

Application for copies should be made to the Standards Association of New Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington.

NOTE—These standards are being printed. Copies are expected to be available after 31 March 1969.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 1969.

G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.

(S.A. 114/2/2: 305–306)

The Standards Act 1965—Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 24 January 1969, amended the under-mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number, Title, and Price of Standard Specification Amendment
NZS 1296:1965 Fire-fighting equipment. 60c . . . . No. 1

The amended standard specification is available from the Standards Association of New Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington.

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

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 1969.

G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.

(S.A. 114/2/3: 406)

Notice to Make Returns of Land Under the Land and Income Tax Act 1954

PURSUANT to the Land and Income Tax Act 1954, the Commissioner of Inland Revenue hereby gives notice as follows:

1. A return of land held as at noon on 31 March 1969 is required from every person and company, whether a taxpayer or not, being the owner of land in New Zealand within the meaning of the Land and Income Tax Act 1954, if the total unimproved value exceeds $60,000.

2. Returns are required to be delivered or forwarded to the district office of the Inland Revenue Department where the taxpayer’s records are filed not later than 7 May 1969.

3. Return forms are available at all district offices of the Inland Revenue Department.

4. Any person or company failing to furnish a return within the prescribed time is liable to a fine not exceeding $200 or not less than $4.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of February 1969.

D. A. STEVENS, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

Assignment of Foreshore Licence for a Fish Shed at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island

PURSUANT to the Harbours Act 1950, the Secretary for Marine hereby gives notice that the licence granted* to Stewart Island Fish Packing and Storage Co. Ltd., of Invercargill, and assigned† to Skeggs Foods International Ltd., to use and occupy part of the foreshore at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, for the purpose of maintaining thereon a fish shed is hereby assigned to Henry Claude Taylor and his administrators, executors, or assigns.

Dated at Wellington this 6th day of March 1969.

P. E. MUERS, for Secretary for Marine.

*Gazette, 10 September 1964, p. 1534
†Gazette, 25 July 1968, p. 1251

(M. 54/9/254)

Indecent Publications Tribunal

I, Victor Worth Thomas, Comptroller of Customs, give notice that I have applied to the Indecent Publications Tribunal for a decision as to whether the books

Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, published by Caravelle Books Incorporated, 350 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, and

Sexual Anomalies and Perversions, a summary of the works of the late Professor Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, edited by Norman Haire, ch.M., M.B., and published by Encyclopaedic Press, 115 Salisbury Road, Kilburn, London N.W. 6

are indecent or not, or for a decision as to their classification.

Temporary Protection of Industry

NOTICE is hereby given that the Emergency Protection Authority has been requested to undertake inquiries, in terms of the Tariff and Development Board Amendment Act 1967, and to report, in terms of section 10D of that Act, concerning the following goods:

1. Electric and battery operated clocks, clock cases and surrounds, and clock dials, falling within Tariff items 91.04.02, 91.10.00, and 91.11.09.

Date of reference: 7 March 1969.

2. Artificial flowers and articles made of artificial flowers, falling within Tariff items 67.02.01 and 67.02.09.

Date of reference: 11 March 1969.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of March 1969.

M. J. MORIARTY,
Secretary of Industries and Commerce.

(I. and C. 2/27)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 33 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1964, the Reserve Bank, acting with the approval of the Minister of Finance, hereby gives notice that, as at the close of business on 6 March 1969, and until further notice, balances to be maintained in the Reserve Bank by each trading bank shall be equal to an amount which, when added to that bank’s holdings of Reserve Bank notes as disclosed in that bank’s latest available weekly return of Banking Statistics under the Statistics Act 1955, will be not less than the aggregate of:

22 percent of that bank’s demand deposits in New Zealand plus 3 percent of that bank’s time deposits in New Zealand as shown in the last preceding monthly return furnished by that bank in accordance with section 31 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1964.

A. R. LOW, Governor.

Wellington, 5 March 1969.

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