149

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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT—continued.

I Number IteKU 1925-26 of Persons. VOTE No. 29.—CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT— continued. 1925-26. Subdivision No. II.—Customs : Miscellaneous Services £ £ —continued. Charges for and incidental to —continued. Refund of duty on—continued. 36 Baggage not fully complying with the terms of tile exemption under the tariff, but being baggage and effects not for sale ... ... 20 37 Bran and pollard ordered from overseas before the re-imposition of the duty on 1st March, 1925, and sold before importation on a duty-free basis 49 38 Chairs for invalids, and clothing, apparatus, and other articles for persons in poor circumstances and who cannot pay the duty ... ... 50 39 j Chassis for motor-ambulance imported for St. John Ambulance Association, Dunedin ... ... 50 40 Cinematograph films imported for the Young Women's Christian Association for use at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition ... 25 41 Dredging machinery imported by the Gisborne Harbour Board for the dredge " Korua," which was dismantled therefrom in Australia to comply with the navigation laws of the Commonwealth and shipped to New Zealand by separate vessels, and on which duty would not have been charged if the machinery had been imported with the dredge ... ... ... 375 42 Foreign salt shipped for export to New Zealand before the coming into operation of the increased duty of £1 per ton imposed on 14th April, 1925, and sold on basis of previous duty ... ... 1,380 43 Miniature rifles and ammunition for same for the use of Territorials, Cadets, or Rifle Clubs ... 10 44 Printed matter for the use of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Navy League, and similar patriotic societies, Red Cross Society, and Young Helpers' League, as may be approved by the Minister ... 40 45 | Printed matter, including photographs, advertising Canada and Hawaii, sent by the Canadian Government and by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, for free distribution throughout the Dominion ... 5 46 Pulp-board for manufacturing purposes, approved by the Minister, which would have been exempt from duty under the Customs Act, 1908, and which was ordered from abroad in error ... 15 47 Ships imported for river trading which could not be built in New Zealand ... ... 3,250 48 Specially-made swimming costumes for life-saving Clubs, being of a kind which no firm in New Zealand can economically supply or make ... 5 49 Uniforms, fittings, and badges for Pipe Bands which could not be made in New Zealand ... 150 50 Uniforms not obtainable in New Zealand for Officers of His Majesty's cable ship "Iris," the property of the Pacific Cable Board ... 50 51 Wireless equipment for ships ... ... 50 Refund of— >52 Difference between the duty payable and that advised in error by a New Zealand Government Officer abroad to be payable on certain paper which would not have been exported to New Zealand if the correct duty chargeable thereon had been known ... ... .. 10 53 Duty, to the extent of the British preferential rate, on racing-boats and spoon-blade oars and sculls imported by or for rowing clubs ... ... 200