2 NOVEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 5577

(iii) Reefer Container Bins

To be manufactured in compliance with the following specifications.

Bin and Timber Specifications For All Bins

(i) Timber

• Pine, Douglas Fir, Tanekaha
• New (Clean, unused)
• Bark-free
• Air seasoned (Maximum of 25% moisture content) or anti-sap stain treated.

(ii) Construction

Side Boards

• Minimum thickness: 18 mm or 15 mm with vertical stays. (Vertical stays in the centre of all sides four at minimum of 15 mm by 50 mm. All must be bevelled.)
• Minimum width: 95 mm
• Knots: No greater than 50% of board width.
• Bevelling: Compulsory if timber multi-rippled.
• Number of Boards: Six on each of the four sides.

Base of Pallet Boards

• Minimum thickness: 18 mm
• Minimum width: 95 mm
• Knots: No greater than 50% of board width.
• Bevelling: Compulsory if timber multi-rippled.
• Number of boards: Nine

Base of Pallet Bearers

• Size: 100 mm × 50 mm
• Number: Three spaced evenly over pallet.

Cap Rails

• Minimum thickness: 18 mm
• Minimum width: 95 mm
• Knots: No greater than 50% of board width.
• Bevelling: Compulsory if timber multi-rippled.

Corner Stays

• Minimum dimensions: 100 mm × 50 mm diagonally cut 75 mm × 75 mm

Fastening
Nails or staples to be used as follows:

• Nails: Ring shank, angular groove or equivalent.
  • Length: 55 mm for all 18 mm bins
  • 51 mm for all 15 mm bins
  • Number of nails: Two nails per join and four where bottom side boards join base. (Total of Nails: for 18 mm bins = 182, 15 mm bins = 230)
• Staples:
  • Length: Q 23—55 mm for 18 mm bins
  • Q 21—50 mm for 15 mm bins
  • Number of staples: Three staples per join and six where bottom sides boards join base. Total of staples: for 18 mm bins = 273, 15 mm bins = 345

Construction: All bins must be constructed in accordance with these specifications using sound building practices, in a tight square and uniform way.

10. Provisions and marking

Each package must bear the following particulars in letter grouped on the same side, legibly and indelibly marked and visible from the outside:

• Identification: registered marker of grower and packing establishment and exporters’ identification.
• Nature of produce: kind and variety.
• Country of origin: New Zealand.
• Commercial specification: grade of contents.
• Official control mark: inspection stamp or similar identification if applicable.

Note: Size ranges may also be included on bin labels.

Third Schedule

General Information

The following explanatory notes do not form part of this standard grade, but are presented for the information of growers, packers and exporters.

1. It is the responsibility of the exporter to ensure the produce exported meets the legal requirements of the importing country and the specification of the importer.

2. Handling and Packing:
   (a) Packing of shipping containers in the field is not acceptable.
   (b) Buttercup squash should not be cut or harvested in rain or damp conditions. Full crates should be protected from inclement weather.
   (c) Avoid the possibility of sunburn following cutting and during harvest. Packed crates should be protected from the sun at all times.
   (d) After harvesting it is desirable to hold squash in a shaded airy place for a minimum of 48 hours prior to export packing.
   (e) Squash should be harvested at optimum maturity. Over mature squash has a greater loss of colour and higher levels of post-harvest decay during and after shipping.
   (f) The curing process is to be completed prior to exporting.

3. Exemptions
   Exemptions to the packaging specifications or the 14 days harvesting to shipment period may be considered on receipt of a submission in writing to the New Zealand Buttercup Squash Council Incorporated.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of October 1989.

R. E. W. ELLIOTT, Acting Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries. (Acting pursuant to delegated authority).

'S.R. 1975/57'
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Revocation of Potato Cyst Nematode Regulations 1974

Revocation of Potato Cyst Nematode Declarations

Pursuant to regulation 3 of the Revocation of Potato Cyst Nematode Regulations 1974, the Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries hereby revokes all declarations of land to be infected areas under regulation 3 of the revoked Potato Cyst Nematode Regulations 1974 as and from the 19th day of October 1989.

R. E. W. ELLIOTT, Acting Director-General.
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Energy

Electricity Act 1968

Notice of Intention to Seek Approval

Take notice that pursuant to section 24c (2) of the Electricity Act 1968, I, Philip Joseph McCarthy, Acting Secretary of Energy intend to apply 1 month from the date of publication of this notice to the Minister of Energy for approval of the Electrical Code of Practice for Trees Close to Overhead Electric Supply Lines 1989.