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1901. NEW ZEALAND.

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS: ARTICLES ON THE CUSTOMS FREE LIST.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 4th October, 1901. Ordered, "That there be laid before this House a return showing separately the artioles now on the free list, and which have been plaoed on the free list, under the headings of " Agricultural Machinery" and " Agricultural Implements," from the passing of the Customs and Exoise Duties Act of last year up to the present date." (Mr. Massey.)

Beturn showing Articles which have been imported and which have been placed on the Free List under the Headings of " Agricultural Machinery " and " Agricultural Implements " since the passing of "The Customs Duties Act Amendment Act, 1900." Ash sticks for making aprons and Grain and seed oleaning and dressing Roost-ooop for brooders. elevators for agricultural maohin- or winnowing machines driven by Root-pulper. cry. hand-power. Seed-cleaning machine, hand. Barley-awner. Hay-knives. Seed-drawer, clover. Bill-hooks. Hay-presses. Seed-drills. Boilers for heating ohioken-brooders. Hay-rakes. Seed-drill .tubes of indiarubber. Bone-cutters for poultry-feed. Hay-sweeps. Seed-sowers, hand. Brood-coops. Hay-tedders. Shears, pruning, suitable for proBrooders. Hedge-shears. fessional gardeners, orohardists' Bush-hooks. Hoes, Dutch. vine-growers, and horticulturists. Gahoon hand seed-sower. Hop-drags. Sheep-shearing machines. Chaff-cutter knives. Horse-olippers. Sickles. Chaff-outters. Horse-rakes. Slashers. Combined threshers. Incubators. Spray pumps. Cora-crushers, hand-power, and parts. Linseed-threshing machine. Straw-presses. Corn-sheller, hand-power. Manure-drills. Stump-extractor. Cultivators. Mills for crushing horse-feed. Thatch-making machine. Dehorners (cattle). Mowing-machines and parts. Threshing-mills and parts. Drills, seed and manure. Nest-box for brooders. Tilt-rakes. Egg-tester. Planet Jr. implements. Turnip-cutters. Fertiliser drills. Poison-distributing machines. Wheels for seed and turnip drills. Field-rakes. Potato-hooks. Windmills imported by or for farmers, Fittings for threshers. PruniQg-3hears. and subject to declaration. Flax-haokles. Rakes. Wine-presses. Garden-hoes. Reaper-knife sections. Wool baling and dumping machines. Garden-rakes. Rings for Cambridge roller. Wool-presses. Gorse-masticators. W. T. Glasgow, Secretary and Inspector. Department of Trade and Customs, Wellington, 29th October, 1901. Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given; printing (1,200 copies), 20a.

Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9ol.

Price 3d.]