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Draft Standard Specifications — .Number received during the year .. .. • • • • ■• • H" Recommended as suitable for adoption as New Zealand standards without amendment .. .. • ■ • • • • • • .. 39 Recommended as suitable for adoption as New Zealand standards with amendment .. .. . ■ • • • • • • • • ® Recommended as unsuitable for adoption as New Zealand standards .. 5 Considered of no interest to New Zealand Deferred until corresponding standards are received .. .. • • 8 Still under consideration .. .. • • • • • • " io Received for information only .. .. • • • • • • 12 Total 116 The following recommendations have been made concerning the twenty-six draft specifications already under consideration at the beginning of the year : Recommended as suitable for adoption as New Zealand standards without amendment ..' • • • • • • ■ • • ■ . • • Recommended as suitable for adoption as New Zealand standards with amendment .. • • • ■ • • • • • • • • 3 Recommended as unsuitable for adoption as New Zealand standards . . 1 Deferred until corresponding standards received .. .. ■ • • • H Received for information only No recommendation made Total .. • • • • • • ■ • ■ • ■ • 26 Standards Association of Australia. Standards Specifications — Number received during the year .. • ■ ■ • • • .. 27 Recommended as unsuitable for adoption as New Zealand standards .. 7 Still under consideration . . .. • • • • • • .. 20 Total .. .. • • • • • • • • .. 27 Also, fourteen standards already under consideration at the beginning of the year have been examined and found to be unsuitable to New Zealand conditions. Draft Standard Specifications — Number received during the year .. .. • • • • .. 21 Recommended as suitable for adoption as a New Zealand standard with amendment .. •. • • • • • • • • • • 1 Recommended as unsuitable for adoption as New Zealand standards Considered to be of no interest to New Zealand . . • • • • 5 Deferred until the corresponding standards are received .. • • 4 Still under consideration . . •. • • • • • • • • ® Total 21 The following recommendations have been made concerning the sixteen draft standard specifications already under consideration at the beginning of the year . Recommended as suitable for adoption as a New Zealand standard with amendment 1 Recommended as suitable for adoption as New Zealand standards .. . . 2 Deferred until the corresponding standards are received . . . . .. 10 Still under consideration .. • • • • • • • • 3 Total 16 New Zealand Standard Specifications. Original Specifications issued. The provisions of the following specifications have been developed by committees of the New Zealand Standards Institute and issued as New Zealand specifications during the year N.Z.S.S. 168 New South Wales Desapped or Dressed Desapped Hardwood Poles for Use by Government Departments and Electric-power Boards throughout New Zealand. ... . . N.Z.S.S. 169 Classification and Grading of New Zealand Building Timber. (National Grading Rules.)

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