NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

5 APRIL

Authorities and Other Agencies of State

PostBank

Post Office Savings Bank Regulations 1985

Bonus Bonds Weekly Prize Draw No. 5, 31 March 1990

Pursuant to the Post Office Savings Bank Regulations 1985, notice is hereby given that as the result of the weekly Prize Draw No. 5 for 31 March is as follows:

One prize of $50,000: 1423 468619.

Twenty-five prizes of $5,000:
128 606337, 427 941292,
925 857440, 1010 245048, 1123 240922, 1273 040350,
2923 913799, 3121 069600, 3127 734421, 3223 723292,
3380 945796, 3520 081562, 3720 658206, 4099 210388,
4396 580280, 4990 849382, 5350 756619, 5695 826717,
7881 696503, 7895 851429, 8681 287547, 9180 340220,
9296 932071, 9680 582939 and 9990 332656.

DAVID CAYGILL, Minister of Finance.

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New Zealand Wool Board

Direction on Wool Test Certification

This “Direction on Wool Test Certification” is made by the New Zealand Wool Board (the “Board”) pursuant to its authority contained in section 21(1) of the Wool Industry Act 1977 (the “Act”). The intention of this Direction is to further enhance the integrity of the New Zealand wool testing industry and to enhance the utilisation of objective measurement of wool.

Notice of this Direction is being given as required by section 21(5) of the Act. The Direction may be amended from time to time. Any such amendments will be published in this Gazette or as otherwise provided by the Act.

For the purposes of this Direction raw wool is defined as:

• greasy wool; wool which has been scoured, carbonised, washed or solvent degreased; scoured skin wools; washed skin wools; and slipe wools. Raw wool consists of wool fibre together with variable amounts of vegetable matter and extraneous alkali insoluble impurities, mineral matter, wool waxes, suint and moisture.

The Board has considered various requests from the National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests Incorporated and the New Zealand Council of Wool Exporters Incorporated to have put in place a system of compulsory registration of New Zealand Wool Testing Laboratories which provide certified results/test certificates used in the sale transactions of parcels of raw wool.

Accordingly the Board hereby directs that from 1 April 1990 no certified results/test certificates shall be supplied or displayed in connection with the offering of raw wool for sale in New Zealand or for export overseas unless the following criteria are met:

(1) That every certified result/test certificate be issued on the basis of a test authorised by the Board and carried out according to a standard test method published in the International Wool Textile Organisation, the Standards Association of New Zealand, the American Society of Testing and Materials, or any other national or international body that may be recognised by the Board.

(2) That any such certified results/test certificates be issued by an authorised wool testing laboratory that is registered for the test(s) conducted with the Testing Laboratory Registration Council of New Zealand (TELARC) under their registered laboratory programme or by a body recognised as equivalent by Telarc and approved by the New Zealand Wool Board. (Notification by the New Zealand Wool Board that a laboratory is authorised will only and shall be given once registration is granted.)

(3) Where certified results/test certificates are supplied or displayed in connection with the offering of wool for sale in New Zealand or for export overseas only the Board authorised Tests and associated Sampling Procedures, Test Methods and recommended Format of Certificates as detailed in the attached addendum will apply.

Supplementary Points

(a) This notice does not preclude the issuing of certified results/test certificates for components of authorised test methods, standard mathematical adjustments of results or mathematical combinations of results using standard mathematical procedures. Any such procedures used must have TELARC approval.

(b) This notice does not preclude the issuing of certificates which are a summary of authorised test results.

(c) This notice does not preclude issuing of certified results/test certificates for staple length and staple strength where the staple length and staple strength determination has been done at one laboratory and the base wool determination done at another laboratory, provided both the participating laboratories are registered with Telarc or a body considered by Telarc as equivalent and approved by New Zealand Wool Board. In addition, the issued certificate must clearly show the laboratories involved and what authorised tests each has conducted.

(d) The standard terminology given in the recommended format for IWTO certificates should be used whenever possible. This notice does not, however, preclude the issuing of post sale certificates with wording at variance to the authorised format, provided the variation is only done to accommodate differences resulting from the language translation of standard documents.

(e) The procedure for the addition of new test methods to the list of the New Zealand Wool Board authorised Tests shall be:

(i) A test method is developed and/or identified as being appropriate and compatible with the New Zealand wool marketing objective measurement activity.

(ii) The test method is published by a body recognised by the New Zealand Wool Board.

(iii) Copies of the standard test method document are made available to the New Zealand Wool Board, National Council of New Zealand Wool Interest Incorporated, TELARC and other interested parties.

(iv) The New Zealand Wool Board and the National Council of New Zealand Wool Interest Incorporated discuss the test method and—if the test method be considered appropriate and compatible with New Zealand wool—a time frame for its introduction and authorisation is established.

(v) The New Zealand Wool Board prepares an updated addendum to this Gazette notice thereby giving authorisation to the new test method from an agreed date.

(vi) Interested wool testing laboratories apply to TELARC for registration for the particular test.