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3. The inquiry will be to hear evidence on the proposed action as it affects rubber bands classified in Tariff item 40.14.01, and the Board will also take note of evidence placed before it regarding the rates of duty applicable to these goods and import licensing as it affects them.

4. Any person who intends to tender evidence should lodge 12 copies of a typewritten statement of the evidence to be presented, under oath, at the public inquiry with the under-named no later than Tuesday, 2 September 1969. In preparing this evidence, the “Notes for Guidance of Witnesses”, prepared by the Board, may be of assistance. Copies of these notes may be obtained from the under-named.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of July 1969.

O. A. BLACK,
Acting Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.
P.O. Box 5070, Wellington.

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 117—Public Inquiry into Import Duties and Import Licensing Affecting Bookbinders’ Gathering and Stitching Machines (ex Tariff Item 84.32.00)

1. Following receipt by the Minister of Customs of a report from the Emergency Protection Authority, the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Authority that urgent action is necessary in relation to the importation of bookbinders’ gathering and stitching machines, classified in Tariff item 84.32.00 at the following rates of duty:

BP .... .... .... Free
MFN .... .... .... 20%
GEN .... .... .... 25%

In accordance with the provisions of the Tariff and Development Board Act, the Minister of Customs has referred to the Board, for inquiry and report, the question of what permanent form of protection, if any, is necessary in respect of these goods.

2. Pending such inquiry and report the proposed exemption from import licensing has been deferred for 12 months, or until the Board has examined this matter. In the meantime, the goods continue in the present “C” category for import licensing purposes.

3. The Board will, in accordance with its normal procedures, conduct a public inquiry in the Boardroom, First Floor, Law Society Building, 26 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington, on Wednesday, 24 September 1969, commencing at 10.30 a.m.

4. Any person who intends to tender evidence should lodge 12 copies of a typewritten statement of the evidence to be presented, under oath, at the public inquiry with the under-named no later than Tuesday, 9 September 1969. In preparing this evidence, the “Notes for Guidance of Witnesses”, prepared by the Board, may be of assistance. Copies of these notes may be obtained from the under-named.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of July 1969.

O. A. BLACK,
Acting Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.
P.O. Box 5070, Wellington.

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 21 July 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:

9 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, 17 July 1969.

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 18 July 1969, and until further notice, balances to be maintained in the Reserve Bank by each trading bank shall be equal to an amount which will be not less than the aggregate of:

5 percent of that bank’s demand deposits in New Zealand plus 1 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.

Wellington, 16 July 1969.

A. R. LOW, Governor.

Wholesalers’ Licences Under the Sales Tax Act—Notice No. 1969/7

PURSUANT to the Sales Tax Act 1932–33, licences to act as wholesalers have been granted as set out in Schedule I hereto, and licences to act as wholesalers have been surrendered or revoked as set out in Schedule II hereto.

SCHEDULE I

LICENCES GRANTED