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CLASS XL— continued. PAPER MANUFACTURES AND STATlONERY— continued.

Customs Duties— continued. 267. Stationery, manufactured : namely, accountbooks, manuscript books, billheads, invoice and statement forms, without printed or lithographed headings, and other ruled paper, labels, tags, blank and head-line copy-books, drawing-books, blottingpads, sketch-books, gummed paper, copying letterbooks, manifold writers, albums (other than photographic), diaries, plain and faint-lined ruled books, and other printed or lithographed or embossed stationery, prepared or liquid gum, printed windowtickets, Christmas and New Year cards, birthday and other similar cards, and booklets, 30 per cent. 268. Stationery, n.0.e., 15 per cent. Stereotypes and matrices, 30 per cent.

Exemptions. 333. Bookbinders' materials: viz., cloth, leather, thread, headbands, webbing, end-papers, tacketing gut, marbling colours, marble paper, blue paste for ruling-ink, staple-presses, wire staples, staple-sticks. 349. Cardboard and pasteboard, of sizes not less than that known as "royal."

Exemptions— (continued. 350. Cardboard boxes, material for: namely, gold and silver paper plain and embossed, gelatine and coloured papers, known as "box-papers." Cloth-lined boards, royal and larger. Cloth-lined papers, demy and larger. Enamelled paper, demy and larger. Hand-made cheque paper. 393. Ink, printing. Ivorite and gelatine, demy and larger. Masticated para.. Metallic paper, demy and larger. 420. Millboard and bookbinders' leather-board. 431. Paper, hand-made or machine-made book, or writing, of sizes not less than the size known as " demy," when in original wrappers, and with uncut edges as it leaves the mill. 430. Paper, printing. Parchment paper and waxed paper, for butter wrapping. 446. Printed books, n.o.e. 458. School slates, and educational apparatus.

CLASS XII. MANUFACTURES OF METAL.

Customs Duties. 16. Bicycles, tricycles, and the like vehicles, 20 per cent. 27. Boilers, land and marine, 20 per cent. 46. Cartridges, 3s. per hundred ; cartridge-cases, Is. 3d. per hundred. 76. Cutlery, 20 per cent. 94. Fire-arms: Fowling-pieces, rifles, and other kinds, 20 per cent. 109. Galvanised-iron manufactures, n.0.e., 25 per cent. Gasometers, 20 per cent. 125. Hardware, ironmongery, and holloware, 20 per cent. 141. Iron galvanised corrugated sheets, screws, and nails, 2s. the cwt. 140. Iron galvanised tiles, ridging, guttering, and spouting, 20 per cent. 143. Iron nails, 2s. the cwt. 144. Iron pipes and fittings for same, including main-cocks, 10 per cent. 142. Iron, plain, galvanised, and hoop, Is. 6d. the cwt. 146. Iron tanks, 10s. each 147. Iron tanks of and under 200 gallons, ss. each. 151. Japanned and lacquered metal ware, 25 per cent. 156. Lead and composition piping, 3s. 6d. the cwt. 155. Lead, in sheets, Is. 6d. the cwt. 169. Machinery, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 181. Manufactures, n.0.e., of metal, or of metal in combination with any other material, 20 per cent. 231. Railway and tramway plant, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 249. Shot, 10s. the cwt. Slashers, 20 per cent. 270. Steam-engines and traction-engines and parts of same, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 284. Tinware, 25 per cent. 309. Wire mattresses and webbing, 20 per cent. 315. Zinc manufactures, n.o.e, 25 per cent. 314. Zinc tiles, ridging, guttering, and piping, 20 per cent.

Exemptions. 320. Anchors. 327. Axes and hatchets. 328. Axles, axle-arms, and boxes. Band-saws and folding-saws, including frames. 330. Bellows nails. Bicycles and tricycles, fittings for—viz., dropforgings in the rough, ball-bearings, tyres, and weldless steel tube, rims, forks, and spokes. 322. Blacksmiths' anvils. Bolts, sin. by -Jin. and under, and nuts for same. 339. Brass, in pigs, bars, tubes, or sheets. 340. Brass tubing and stamped work, in the rough, for gasaliers and brackets. 489. Buckles. Butchers' saws and cleavers. Caps, percussion. Chaff-cutters, corn-crushers, corn-shellers, and seed-cleaners. 353. Chains, iron. 361. Copper and composition, rod, bolts, sheathing, and nails. 360. Copper, in pigs, bars, tubes, or sheets. Crucibles. Dredges. Emery-grinding machines. Empty iron drums, not exceeding 10 gallons capacity. 369. Engineers' machine tools. Eyelets. 372. Fire-engines. Fish-hooks. 375. Forges and fans. 376. Gas-engines and hammers, and oil-engines. 378. Glassmakers' moulds. Iron and brass wove wire and wire-gauze. 394. Iron boiler-plates and unflanged end-plates for boilers. Iron pipes imported by local governing bodies for waterworks or gasworks. 395. Iron, plain black sheet.