Amendment
Number, Title, and Price of Specification No./AMD
BS 499; —— Welding terms and symbols—
Part 1: 1965 Welding, brazing and thermal cutting glossary. $5.00 ….
BS 1420: 1965 Glossary of terms applicable to wrought products in copper, zinc, and their alloys. $2.70
BS 1640: —— Steel butt-welding pipe fittings for the petroleum industry—
Part 1: 1962 Wrought carbon and ferritic alloy steel fittings. $3.30
Part 3: 1968 Wrought carbon and ferritic alloy steel fittings. Metric units. $5.00
BS 2926: 1970 Chromium-nickel austenitic and chromium steel electrodes for manual metal-arc welding. Metric units. $1.90
BS 3242: 1970 Aluminium alloy stranded conductors for overhead power transmission. Metric units. $1.90
BS 3382: —— Electroplated coatings on threaded components— Parts 1 and 2: 1961 Cadmium on steel components: zinc on steel components. Metric and imperial units. $2.70
BS 4161: —— Gas meters— Part 2: 1967 Meters of plate construction above 1000 cubic feet per hour rating. $2.70
Part 3: 1968 Unit construction meter of 6 cubic metres (212 cubic feet) per hour rating. Metric and imperial units. $3.30
BS 4252: 1967 Method for the determination of the viscosity of rubber latices. Metric units. $1.10
Copies of the specifications so amended are obtainable from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15–23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington. An additional 20c service charge is made on all mail orders.
Copies of the amendments will be supplied, free of charge, upon request, unless otherwise stated.
Dated at Wellington this 29th day of September 1972.
G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 8–114/2/10: E 341–350)

2/859 ($1.50)
1/910 (40c)
3/904 (40c)
1/905 (40c)
1/787 (40c)
1/913
2/926 (40c)
1/899 (80c)
3/916 (40c)
1/900 (40c)

$8.00 each. In accordance with the provisions of the Tariff and Development Board Act, the Minister of Customs has requested the Board to undertake an inquiry and report on the nature and degree of protection, if any, it considers necessary to protect the New Zealand industry manufacturing radios classified in Tariff item 85.15.101.
2. For the purpose of taking evidence the Board will hold a public hearing in the Hearing Room, Eighth Floor, Cumberland House, Upper Willis Street, Wellington, on Monday, 19 March 1973, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
3. Parties intending to make representations or requests about appropriate rates of customs duty are asked to take into account the statement by the Minister of Overseas Trade of 6 September 1972 about changes in the New Zealand customs tariff. Copies of this statement can be obtained from the undersigned. Parties intending to make representations or requests about the exemption from import licensing of goods at present not so exempt are asked to take into account the statement in the 1972 Financial Statement (page 19) that “the Government has also decided that where the industry is to be exempted from import licensing there should be provision in appropriate cases for a phase-out period which in general will be for up to three years”.
4. Any person who intends to tender evidence should lodge, in typewritten form, 14 copies of public evidence and 12 copies of confidential evidence, to be presented under oath at the public hearing, at the Board’s office no later than Monday, 26 February 1973. In preparing this evidence the “Notes for Information and Guidance of Interested Parties” prepared by the Board may be of assistance. Copies of these notes may be obtained from the Board’s office.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of October 1972.
C. H. S. RODDEN,
Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.
P.O. Box 27–046, Wellington.

The Standards Act 1965—Draft New Zealand Standard Specifications Available for Comment
PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, notice is hereby given that the following draft New Zealand standard specifications are being circulated:
Number and Title of Specifications
DZ 4451/279 Loads on buried rigid pipes. (Superseding NZSR 7.)
DZ 4452/280 Construction of underground pipe sewers and drains. (Metric units.)
All persons who may be affected by these specifications and who desire to comment thereon may, upon application, obtain a copy on loan from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15–23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington 1. Additional copies are obtainable at 50c a copy from the same address.
The closing date for the receipt of comment is 15 November 1972.
Dated at Wellington this 4th day of October 1972.
G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 9–114/2/8)

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 302—Inquiry Concerning Protection for Radios of Tariff Item 85.15.101

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, pending inquiry and report by the Tariff and Development Board, import licences issued under item code 85.280 be endorsed to the effect that they are not available for the importation of radio sets with a C.I.F. value of less than

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 303—Inquiry Concerning Protection for Animal Marking Pliers and Pliers for Use in Attaching Clips, Tags, Rings, and the Like to Animals

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, pending inquiry and report by the Tariff and Development Board, animal marking pliers and pliers for use in attaching clips, tags, rings, and the like to animals, classified in Tariff item 82.03.004, be retained on import licence. In accordance with the provisions of the Tariff and Development Board Act, the Minister of Customs requested the Board to undertake an inquiry and report on what form of permanent protection, if any, it considers necessary for the New Zealand industry manufacturing these goods.
2. For the purpose of taking evidence the Board will hold a public hearing in the Hearing Room, Eighth Floor, Cumberland House, Upper Willis Street, Wellington, on Thursday, 22 March 1973, commencing at 10.30 a.m.
3. Parties intending to make representations or requests about appropriate rates of customs duty are asked to take into account the statement by the Minister of Overseas Trade of 6 September 1972 about changes in the New Zealand customs tariff. Copies of this statement can be obtained from the undersigned. Parties intending to make representations or requests about the exemption from import licensing of goods at present not so exempt are asked to take into account the statement in the 1972 Financial Statement (page 19) that “the Government has also decided that where the industry is to be exempted from import licensing there should be provision in appropriate cases for a phase-out period which in general will be for up to three years”.
4. Any person who intends to tender evidence should lodge, in typewritten form, 14 copies of public evidence and 12 copies of confidential evidence, to be presented under oath at the public hearing, at the Board’s office no later than Thursday, 1 March 1973. In preparing this evidence the “Notes for Information and Guidance of Interested Parties” prepared by the Board may be of assistance. Copies of these notes may be obtained from the Board’s office.
   Dated at Wellington this 10th day of October 1972.
   C. H. S. RODDEN,
   Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.
   P.O. Box 27–046, Wellington.