Finance Act (No. 2) 1955
Finance Act (No. 2) 1955
Finance Act (No. 2) 1955
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Finance Act (No. 2) 1955
Public Act |
1955 No 103 |
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Date of assent |
28 October 1955 |
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Contents
An Act to make provision with respect to public finance and other matters.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Finance Act (No. 2) 1955.
Part I Public Revenues
2 Acquisition of shares in farmers’ fertilizer companies.
(1)
The Minister of Finance may from time to time on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen subscribe for or otherwise acquire, out of money appropriated by Parliament, shares or interests in any company incorporated in New Zealand and having among its objects the manufacturing of fertilizers, and may from time to time exercise on behalf of Her Majesty all Her Majesty’s rights and powers as the holder of any such shares or interests or as a member of any such company.
(2)
All shares and interests in any such company that have been subscribed for or otherwise acquired on behalf of Her Majesty before the passing of this Act by the Minister of Finance shall be deemed to have been lawfully acquired under this section.
1950, No. 93
(3)
Section five of the Finance Act 1950 is hereby repealed.
3 Exemptions from sales tax.
1932-33, No. 33
(1)
This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Sales Tax Act 1932–33.
(2)
Subject to the provisions of this section, goods of a class or kind specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall be exempt from sales tax.
(3)
The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, revoke the exemption from sales tax of any goods of a class or kind exempted under this section.
(4)
Every Order in Council under this section shall come into force on the date of its notification in the Gazette or on such earlier or later date as may be specified therein in that behalf.
(5)
The resolution of the House of Representatives passed on the twenty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, purporting to exempt goods of a class or kind specified in the First Schedule to this Act is hereby revoked as from the passing thereof.
(6)
All sales tax that became due and payable and all penalties that were incurred before the commencement of this section shall be recovered and enforced in the same manner as if this section and the said resolution had not been passed.
S.R. 1955/82
(7)
The Sales Tax Exemption Order 1955 is hereby amended by omitting from the Second Schedule so much as relates to the classes or kinds of goods specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.
(8)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the twenty-second day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
4 Pensions to Judges’ widows.
(1)
There shall from time to time be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this section, to the widow of any Judge an annuity during her widowhood at the rate of three hundred pounds a year.
(2)
In this section—
“Judge” means a Judge of the Supreme Court or of the Court of Arbitration or of the Compensation Court or of the Land Valuation Court who either—
(a)
Has died before the commencement of this section, whether while holding his office or after having resigned his office; or
(b)
Is living at the commencement of this section and has either resigned his office before the commencement of this section or dies or resigns his office after the commencement of this section but before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-five:
“Widow”, in relation to any Judge, means—
(a)
In the case of a Judge who has died before the commencement of this section, the person who was his wife at the date of his death, or in the case of a Judge who has died after resigning his office, the date of his resignation, provided she has not remarried before the commencement of this section:
(b)
In the case of a Judge who is living at the commencement of this section, the person who is his wife at the date of his death, or, in the case of a Judge who dies after resigning his office, the date of his resignation, and is his widow at the date of his death.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-four.
5 Pensions in respect of death or disablement of members of Police Force.
1947, No. 13 1954, No. 54
The Police Force Act 1947 is hereby amended by inserting, after section forty-three, the following section:
“43a
“(1)
Subject to the provisions of this section, where the disablement or death of any member of the Force has occurred (whether before or after the commencement of this section) and is attributable to his service as a member of the Force, there may be paid to him and his dependants (in the case of his disablement) and to his dependants (in the case of his death) pensions and allowances at rates not exceeding the rates that would be payable if he had been a member of the Forces within the meaning of the War Pensions Act 1954 and if his disablement or death were attributable to his service as a member of the Forces.
“(2)
For the purposes of determining the appropriate rates of pension to be paid under this section, the members of the Force may be graded in such manner as the Governor-General in Council may determine.
“(3)
All applications for pensions and allowances under this section shall be made in writing to the Secretary for War Pensions who shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, submit the application for determination by a War Pensions Board established under the War Pensions Act 1954, and the Board shall with respect to the hearing of the application have the same powers as if the application were an application under that Act.
“(4)
In considering any application for the grant of a pension or allowance to any person under this section the Board shall take into consideration any amount paid by way of pension, retiring allowance, compensation, damages, or compassionate allowance out of the Public Account or out of any Government or other Superannuation Fund or from any other source in respect of the disablement or death of the member.”
6 Subsidies to Rabbit Boards.
1939, No. 38
Section thirty-six of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1939 is hereby amended by adding to subsection two the words “other than amounts paid by a Rabbit Board out of its general fund pursuant to that section in payment of the annual charges on any loan raised by the Board for housing purposes”
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7 Endowment to Royal Society of New Zealand.
1933, No. 17
Section twelve of the Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933 is hereby amended by omitting the words “the sum of five hundred pounds”
, and substituting the words “a sum of not less than five hundred pounds”
.
8 Repealing provisions as to adjusting liability for social security charge in certain cases.
1940, No. 26
Section four of the Finance Act (No. 3) 1940 is hereby repealed:
1938, No. 7;
Provided that the provisions of that section shall continue to apply, as if this section had not been passed, to any person who, before the passing of this Act, ceased to be ordinarily resident in New Zealand, or died, or became liable to pay social security charge pursuant to subsection four of section one hundred and eighteen of the Social Security Act 1938, or commenced to derive income exclusively or principally from salary or wages.
9 Exempting from gift duty donations made to Southland Centennial Association Incorporated.
No gift duty shall be payable or be deemed ever to have been payable on a gift of any property made to the Southland Centennial Association Incorporated for the purpose of celebrating and commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Southland.
Part II Local Authorities and Public Bodies
10 Powers of Local Government Loans Board.
(1)
Section six of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection one, the following subsection:
“(1a)
Without limiting the generality of the powers conferred by subsection one of this section, it is hereby declared that the Board may, in the exercise of its powers conferred by that subsection, have regard to the interests of the national economy.”
(2)
Section six of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 is hereby further amended by adding to paragraph (d) of subsection one the words “or defer its sanction to the proposed loan”
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11 Harbour Boards may raise loans by issue of stock.
1950, No. 34
The Harbours Act 1950 is hereby amended by inserting, after section sixty-eight, the following section:
“68a
“(1)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or in any special Act, where the Board is authorized by any special Act to borrow money in the manner and subject to the conditions specified in this Act or in the special Act, the Board may, if it thinks fit, borrow that money or any part thereof by the issue of stock instead of by the issue of debentures.
“(2)
The authority conferred by subsection one of this section shall not extend to the borrowing of any money outside New Zealand.
“(3)
Where under the provisions of this section the Board borrows any money by the issue of stock—
1955, No. 61
“(a)
The provisions of sections four to twenty-one and of subsection two of section twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act 1955, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply as if the Board were a local authority within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926 and as if the stock were issued pursuant to the first-mentioned Act:
1948, No. 78
“(b)
The provisions of sections fifty-five and seventy-six, sections seventy-eight to eighty-nine, subsection two of section ninety, and sections ninety-one and ninety-two of this Act and of sections forty-nine and fifty of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1948, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply with respect to the stock, as if references therein to debentures were references to stock and as if references therein to the debenture holder were references to the registered holder of the stock:
“(c)
The provisions of section ninety of this Act shall apply with respect to the stock, as if for subsection one there were substituted the following subsection:
“‘(1)
If default is made in payment on the due date of the whole or part of the principal or interest payable in respect of any stock issued by the Board, the registered holder of the stock may apply for relief under this Act, by petition in a summary way, to a Judge of the Supreme Court.’”
12 Hospital Boards may raise loans by issue of stock.
The Hospitals Act 1926 (as amended by subsection three of section five of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act 1951) is hereby further amended by inserting, after section sixty, the following section:
“61
1951, No. 57
“(1)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or in any other Act, where the Board is authorized by section sixty of this Act or by any other Act to borrow money, the Board may, if it thinks fit, borrow that money or any part thereof by the issue of stock instead of by the issue of debentures.
“(2)
The authority conferred by subsection one of this section shall not extend to the borrowing of any money outside New Zealand.
“(3)
Where under the provisions of this section the Board borrows any money by the issue of stock—
1955, No. 61
“(a)
The provisions of sections four to twenty-one and of subsection two of section twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act 1955, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply with respect to the stock, as if the Board were a local authority within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926 and as if the stock were issued pursuant to the first-mentioned Act:
1948, No. 78
“(b)
The provisions of sections thirty-eight to forty-five, fifty-eight to sixty-one, and one hundred and sixteen to one hundred and twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926 and of sections forty-nine and fifty of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1948, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply as if the Board were a local authority within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, as if the money were borrowed pursuant to that Act, and as if references in those sections to debentures and to the debenture holder were references to stock and to the registered holder of the stock, respectively:
“(c)
The provisions of subsections one and six of section sixty of this Act shall apply as if references therein to debentures were references to stock.”
13 Superannuation schemes not to be established or extended by local authorities except with the consent of the Governor-General in Council.
1942, No. 14 1948, No. 78
Section twenty-five of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1942 (as amended by section fifty-three of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1948) is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection as subsection two:
1941, No. 27
“(2)
For the purposes of this section the expression ‘superannuation fund or superannuation scheme’ includes any fund or scheme for providing for employees or their dependants, whether at or after the retirement or death of the employees or during their service, and whether by means of life insurance or otherwise, any periodic or lump sum payments other than direct remuneration or gratuities under section six of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1941.”
14 Empowering local authorities in Otago and Southland to contribute towards cost of super voltage cancer unit.
It shall be lawful and be deemed always to have been lawful for any local authority or public body whose district lies wholly or partly within the boundaries of the Otago Land District or the Southland Land District to expend out of its general fund or account, not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, any sum or sums of money for the purpose of contributing towards the fund established by the Otago-Southland Division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society (Incorporated) to meet the cost of the purchase and installation at the Dunedin Hospital of a super voltage cancer unit.
15 Empowering local authorities to make contributions to Trans-Antarctic Expedition New Zealand Incorporated.
It shall be lawful and be deemed always to have been lawful for any local authority or public body to expend money out of its general fund or account for the purpose of making contributions to the Trans-Antarctic Expedition New Zealand Incorporated towards the cost of the expedition to the Antarctic that is being organized by that society.
Part III Miscellaneous
16 Valuation for rating purposes of land in Rural Subdivision of Kaitaia Drainage Area.
1943, No. 9 1951, No. 78
(1)
Section ten of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1943 is hereby amended by adding to subsection eight (as substituted by section seven of the Finance Act 1951) the words “and the rateable value of land other than farming land in the subdivision shall for the same purposes be deemed to be the value as appearing in the valuation roll in force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty, notwithstanding any alterations that may at any time subsequently be made to that roll”
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1943, No. 9 1951, No. 78
(2)
Section ten of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1943 (as amended by section seven of the Finance Act 1951) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection nine, the following subsections:
“(9a)
Where any land in the Kaitaia Rural Subdivision is subdivided after the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, the Valuer-General shall determine the values for the purposes of this section of the parcels into which the land has been subdivided in conformity with roll values of comparable parcels of land as at the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, in respect of such parcels as are farming land, and as at the first day of April nineteen hundred and fifty, in respect of such parcels as are other than farming land.
“(9b)
Where any land in the Kaitaia Rural Subdivision which at the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, was farming land ceases at any time thereafter to be farming land, the Valuer-General shall determine the value of that land for the purposes of this section in conformity with the roll values of comparable parcels of land other than farming land as at the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty.”
17 Authorization of railway.
(1)
The Governor-General may from time to time in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty purchase and undertake or enter into contracts for the reconstruction of the railway mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act to the extent specified in that Schedule.
(2)
The cost of purchasing and reconstructing that railway shall be paid out of money to be appropriated for that purpose by Parliament.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to be a special Act (authorizing the purchase and reconstruction of that railway to the extent specified in the Third Schedule to this Act) within the meaning and for the purposes of the Public Works Act 1928, which Act, so far as applicable, is hereby incorporated with this section.
18 Authorization of railway connecting Sockburn–Styx Railway with Hurunui–Waitaki Railway.
(1)
The Governor-General may from time to time, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, undertake or enter into contracts for the construction of the railway mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act to the extent mentioned in that Schedule.
(2)
The cost of constructing that railway shall be paid out of money to be appropriated for that purpose by Parliament.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to be a special Act (authorizing the construction of that railway to the extent specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Act) within the meaning and for the purposes of the Public Works Act 1928, which Act, so far as applicable, is hereby incorporated with this section.
19 Public Trustee may borrow on security of Howard Estate.
1919, No. 14 Gazette, 29 August 1946, p. 1197
(1)
Notwithstanding anything in the Howard Estate Act 1919, and without limiting the powers conferred by the Smedley Boys’ Training Farm Approval Order 1946, the Public Trustee may, with the prior approval of the Minister of Agriculture, raise and expend such sums as the Public Trustee considers necessary from time to time to enable such improvements and development work to be carried out in connection with the Howard Estate as the Public Trustee thinks fit.
(2)
Any such sum may be raised either—
(a)
By being advanced out of the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-seven of the Public Trust Office Act 1908; or
(b)
By being borrowed by the Public Trustee on the security of the Howard Estate or any part thereof, and the Public Trustee may execute such mortgage or other document as may be required by the lender and enter into such covenants and agreements as may be agreed upon between the lender and the Public Trustee.
(3)
Any sum so raised may be repaid by such instalments as the Public Trustee from time to time thinks fit out of income arising from the Howard Estate.
20 Dissolution of Kaitangata Coal Company Limited and vesting of assets in Crown for State coal mine.
1933, No. 29
(1)
On the vesting date all shares in the Kaitangata Coal Company Limited, a company registered under the Companies Act 1933 (in this section referred to as the company), that are not held by Her Majesty shall be deemed to be vested in Her Majesty.
(2)
On the vesting date the company shall be deemed to be dissolved, and all the real and personal property, contracts, rights of action, and other rights, obligations, and liabilities of the company shall be deemed to become property, contracts, rights, obligations, and liabilities of Her Majesty the Queen for the purposes of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925, without the necessity of any instrument of transfer, assignment, or other assurance.
(3)
The dissolution of the company shall be reported by the Minister of Mines or by some person authorized by the Minister in that behalf to the appropriate Assistant Registrar of Companies, who shall make in his books a minute of the dissolution of the company.
(4)
All lands and coal mines vested in Her Majesty by this section and all property formerly acquired from the company by the Crown and remaining vested in Her Majesty on the vesting date shall be deemed to be subject to Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925, and shall be held and dealt with thereunder and not otherwise.
(5)
Every estate, right, title, or interest of the company in or to or under any real or personal property or any contract or agreement shall pass by this section, notwithstanding that the consent or approval of any person, body, or authority may be requisite for the assignment thereof by the company, or that it is not capable of assignment apart from the provisions of this section.
(6)
Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, where any real or personal property or right becomes vested in Her Majesty by virtue of this section and the title of the company thereto is or should have been entered in any register required by law to be kept, the Registrar or company or other person whose duty it is to keep that register shall, on the request in writing of the Minister of Mines or of any other person authorized by the Minister in that behalf, without payment of any fee, enter in the register the name of Her Majesty the Queen as the owner of that property or right.
(7)
No estate or interest of the company in any real or personal property shall upon its vesting in Her Majesty pursuant to this section merge in any other estate or interest in that property already held by Her Majesty or be in any way affected by reason of the fact that the title thereto consists in a grant or demise issued by Her Majesty or issued in respect of Crown lands; and every such estate or interest shall continue to subsist for the purposes of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925.
(8)
The Minister of Mines or any other person authorized in that behalf by the Minister may from time to time exercise on behalf of Her Majesty all or any of Her Majesty’s rights and powers as owner of the property, contracts, and rights vested in Her Majesty by this section.
(9)
For the purposes of this section the expression “the vesting date”
means the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
21 Investment of reserve funds paid to Wool Board by New Zealand Wool Commission.
1944, No. 27 1951, No. 82 1954, No. 39
The Wool Industry Act 1944 is hereby amended by inserting, after section nineteen, the following section:
“19a
Money paid to the Board under the provisions of subsection two of section twenty a of the Wool Commission Act 1951 (as enacted by section two of the Wool Commission Amendment Act 1954) may from time to time be invested by the Board in such investments or securities as may be approved by the Minister, after consultation with the Minister of Finance.”
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE Additional Exemptions from Sales Tax
Section 3(2)
Badges indicating membership of any society, club, or similar organization.
Belt dressings.
Bicycles, being cycles propelled only by pedals and having wheels not less than 16 inches in diameter, and rubber tyres and tubes therefor.
Carpet grippers, for affixing carpets to floors.
Dispensers for adhesive tapes and other packaging materials. Drawing boards.
Electrical goods, viz., lamps, indicator, for switchboards.
Hose, flexible, and fittings therefor.
Magic lanterns, cinematographs, and similar instruments, including accessories peculiar thereto.
Mat, reinforcing, of glass fibre.
Oil cans.
Oils, concrete mould and form, as may be approved by the Minister. Pipes, aluminium, and fittings therefor.
Plastic materials, non-pliable, in sheets.
Posters, showcards, and signs.
Preparations specially suited for coating bakers’ tins and trays.
Printed advertising matter, viz., trade catalogues and price lists, programmes, handbills, and circulars, but not including calendars.
Rubber (including sponge rubber) in sheets.
Screw hooks and screw eyes.
Serviette rings.
Sewing requisites.
Stencil plates, letters, and figures.
Syphon bottles for soda water, and other containers for dispensing beverages under pressure.
Tapes, tying, being substitutes for twine.
Tea cosies.
Trays, ash.
Goods, whether manufactured in New Zealand or imported, which, if imported would be included under the following items of the Customs Tariff:
| 95 | Acids—viz., inorganic acids, n.e.i.; also benzoic, carbolic, citric, formic, gallic, lactic, oleic, oxalic, picric, pyrogallic, pyroligneous (crude), salicylic, tannic, and tartaric acids. |
| 96 | Anti-incrustation, boiler, and other similar compounds. |
| 121(1) | Medicinal preparations (except wines) containing 50 per cent of proof spirit or less; medicinal preparations, drugs, druggists’ sundries, and apothecaries’ wares, n.e.i; also aerated water makers’, cordial makers’, and brewers’ drugs, chemicals, and other sundries, n.e.i.; chemicals, and chemical preparations, n.e.i. |
| 121(2) | Medicinal preparations n.e.i., packed in hermetically sealed glass vessels of a capacity not exceeding 15 cubic centimetres. |
| 122 | Medicinal preparations (except medicated wines) containing more than 50 per cent of proof spirit. |
| Ex 124 | Metallic elements n.e.i.; oxides, hydroxides, inorganic salts n.e.i., acetates, and oxalates, of aluminium, ammonia, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, iron, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum, potassium, radium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, tin, zinc, and of the other metallic elements. |
| 237 | Clocks, time registers, and time detectors. |
| 259 | Slides for magic lanterns. |
SECOND SCHEDULE Sales Tax Exemptions Revoked
Section 3(7)
Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) including any preparation of which acetylsalicylic acid is the principal active ingredient.
Acids, viz.: arsenic, boracic, carbolic, citric, hydrochloric, sulphuric, and tartaric.
Alumina, sulphate of.
Antiseptics, being liquid compounds which comply with the provisions of the Food and Drug Regulations 1946 relating to the labelling and sale of antiseptics.
Arsenates and arsenites, inorganic; oxides of arsenic; aceto-arsenites. Calcium chloride.
Caustic soda.
Chemicals, drugs, and other preparations, approved by the Minister, sold by a licensed wholesaler to the order of any person—
(a)
Registered as a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926; or
(b)
Entitled to use in connection with his business the designation of veterinary practitioner in accordance with the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926,—
on declaration by such person that they will be used only under his direction in the preparation or compounding of bona fide veterinary medicines which will be sold exclusively by retail. Condy’s crystals.
Cyanides, inorganic.
Hypochlorites, inorganic.
Lime, including quick lime, slaked lime, and limestone.
Medicinal preparations, viz.:
Inhalants, as may be approved by the Minister, specially put up for the relief of coughs and colds.
Medicinal preparations in liquid form, specially put up for internal use for the relief of coughs and colds.
Medicines or drugs for veterinary use only and being preparations and substances registered pursuant to the Stock Remedies Act 1934.
Medicines or drugs prepared or compounded under the conditions set out below and sold exclusively by retail, viz.:
(1)
If prepared or compounded for individual cases by any person (a) registered under the Medical Practitioners Act 1950, or (b) registered as a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926, or (c) entitled to use in connection with his business the designation of veterinary practitioner in accordance with the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926; or
(2)
If prepared or compounded by any person registered as a pharmaceutical chemist under the Pharmacy Act 1939, according to bona fide prescriptions issued from time to time for individual cases by any person (a) registered under the Medical Practitioners Act 1950, or (b) registered as a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926, or (c) entitled to use in connection with his business the designation of veterinary practitioner under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1926.
Metal, viz.: Mercury.
Potassium chlorate; potassium nitrate.
Printed advertising matter, viz., trade catalogues and price lists, programmes, handbills, and circulars, but not including posters, calendars and showcards.
Radio-active metallic elements and inorganic salts of the same.
Salts, Epsom and Glauber’s
Silver nitrate crystals.
Sodium carbonate; sodium chlorate; sodium fluoride; sodium nitrate; sodium silicate; sodium sulphate.
Sulphides and sulphites, inorganic.
Thimbles, sewing.
Goods, whether manufactured in New Zealand or imported, which, if imported, would be included under the following items of the Customs Tariff:
| 244 | Magic lanterns, cinematographs, and similar instruments, including accessories peculiar thereto, n.e.i. |
THIRD SCHEDULE Railway Authorized
Section 17
| Name of Railway | Extent Authorized |
|---|---|
| Wellington–Napier (Breakwater Branch) | An extension of the Napier to Ahuriri Railway from Ahuriri to a point near the Breakwater, a distance of about 1¾ miles. |
FOURTH SCHEDULE Railway Authorized
Section 18
| Name of Railway | Extent Authorized |
|---|---|
| Sockburn–Styx (Styx Connection) | A connecting line leaving the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway at Craddocks Road, Styx, and running generally in a north-westerly direction to a junction with the proposed Sockburn-Styx Railway near Boundary Drain Road. Length about half a mile. |
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