CUSTOMS ACT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 15

CUSTOMS ACT.

EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS. All manner of articles, from the well-known blackboard to such a curi-ously-termed thing as a "dental phantom" or "dummy patient," are included m a list of goods classed as educational apparatus, which is published in the Gazette, and interpreted by the Minister for Customs. In all cases the British preferential tariff »b free, and the general tariff averages from 20 per cent, to 25 per cent., with certain items free. The list embraces a very wide range. It commences with arithmetical frames, balances, blackboard erasers, drawing cards and chemicals, touches lightly upon desks for Chautaqua art—the latter being free in each tariff—and then specifies imitation coins or gilt, bronzed, coppered or silvered cardboard." Inclined planes come next, ink-wells and dummy keyboards for use of linotype operators, and for students of the pianoforte, follow, and a "Knapp electric questioner' —an appliance for supplying the answers to certain set questions—carries a genera tariff of 26 per cent. Models tor all types of students of physics, ranging from slide-valves to teeth in wax, and demonstration "phantoms" of various descriptions are mentioned, and < t»e National Society's pictures, specmliy prepared for distribution to SundaySchool scholars, are free in each -case. Rubber stamps of the hurrian body, signaling heliographs, wall pictures, band instruments for schools, cine; matogrnnhic films, a hospital "doll, composed mainly of stockinette, rbvthm band outfits—"eonsistmr- of rhvthm sticks. iingle clopft sleicn beli*. trinnsW.ete.. nre also in. eluded, and th* list ends .with yarns only, of tho knitting variety.