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PUBLIC NOTICES ''■''Canterbury " CLICTRIC POWIR BOARD NOTICE TO CONSUMERS THE board advises consumers that, weather permitting, it will be necessary to DISCONNECT POWER in the locality described below TOMORROW (SATURDAY), JULY 11. so that staff may safely make alerations to transmission lines at Motukarara sub-station and replace broken transmission line pole in Lincoln township. TIME: 1 P.M.-3 P.M AREA AFFECTED: WHOLE of the board’s BANKS PENINSULA AREA and AHURIRI STATION and MOTUKARARA STORE areas. ALSO Edward Street, part East Belt, part South Belt. Lincoln, to Stodderts corner. As the board will endeavour to restore power as soon as possible, consumers should treat the lines as alive at all times. S. E. SLATTER, General Manager. 4683 TARIFF AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD NOTICE NO. 175 PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO IMPORT DUTIES AND IMPORT LICENSING AFFECTING THE VARIOUS MEASURING, CHECKING, REGULATING. COxNTROLLING, RECORDING AND ANALYSING INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS OF TARIFF ITEMS, 90.23.00, 90.24.01, 90.24.09, 90.25.00, 90.28.00 AND PARTS OR ACCESSORIES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS CLASSIFIED IN TARIFF ITEM 90.29.00. 1. In its Report No. 108 to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, arising from an inquiry concerning duty and import licensing in respect of certain chart temperature recorders (Ex T.I. 90.23.00) the Board recommended continuation of import control on these goods until such time as there could be a review of the wider field of related instruments and apparatus. 2. This recommendation was accepted by Government and the Board has now been requested by the Minister of Customs to inquire into and report on what form of protection, if any, by way of customs duties and/or import licensing should be accorded to the manufacture in New Zealand of the various instruments, apparatus and parts and accessories enumerated in the Schedule to this Notice. 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 Tuesday, October 13, 1970, commencing at 10.30 a m. 4. Any person who wishes to tender evidence should lodge 12 copies of a typewritten statement of the evidence, to be presented under oath at the public inquiry, at the Board’s office no later than Friday, September 25, 1970. 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 Board’s office. DATED at Wellington this 7th day of July, 1970. O. A. BLACK, Secretary. Tariff and Development Board. SCHEDULE No. 90.23.00: Description, Hydrometers and similar instruments; thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers. psychrometers, recording or not; any combination of these instruments. Rates of Duty: BP Free; MFN 124 per cent*; GEN 25 per cent. No. 90.24: Description, Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature (for example, pressure gauges, thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters, automatic oven-draught regulators), not being articles falling within heading No. 90:14. No. 90.24.01: Description, Temperatures controllers peculiar to use with refrigerating apparatus. Rates of Duty: BP Free; MFN 15 per cent: GEN 25 per cent. No. 90:24.09: Description, Other. Rates of Duty: BP Free; MFN 20 per cent; GEN 25 per cent. No. 90.25.00: Description, Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like (such as' viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such as photometers (including exposure meters), calorimeters): microtomes. Rates of Duty: BP Free; MFN 20 per cent; GEN 25 per cent. No. 90.28.00: Description. Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments and I apparatus. Rates of Duty: BP Free: MFN 20 per cent: GEN 25 per cent. i No. Ex 90.29.00: Description, Parts or accessories suitable for juse solely or principally with one or more of the articles falling within heading No. 90.23, 90.24 or 90.28. Rates of Duty: The rates applicable to the articles for which the parts or accessories have been designed. •Pursuant to G.A.T.T. “Kennedy Rourfd” negotiations this rate is to be progressively reduced to 74 per cent. I 4508 j w