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CLASS IX. CHINA, GLASS, AND EARTHEN GOODS.

Customs Duties. Bricks of all kinds, including firebricks, 30 per cent. 52. Chinaware, 20 per cent. 80. Drainage-pipes and tiles, 20 per cent. 88. Earthen flooring- and garden-tiles, 20 per cent. 89. Earthen gas-retorts, 20 per cent. 87. Earthenware, 20 per cent. 93. Filters, 20 per cent. 95. Fireclay ground, and fireclay goods, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 112. Glass, crown, sheet, and common window, 2s. the 100 superficial feet.

Customs Duties— continued. 113. Glass, plate, polished, coloured, and other kinds, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 114. Glassware, 20 per cent. 115. Globes and chimneys for lamps, 20 per cent. 153. Lamps, lanterns, and lampwick, 20 per cent. Exemptions. 337. Bottles, empty, plain glass, except cut or ground, and jars up to 3in. in diameter at the mouth. Jars or other dutiable vessels, containing goods subject to a fixed rate of duty.

CLASS X. FANCY GOODS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ETC.

Customs Duties. Artificial flies, 30 per cent. 40. Cards, playing, Is. per pack. 57. Clocks,.2o per cent. 91. Fancy goods and toys, 20 per cent. 122. Greenstone, cut and polished, 30 per cent. 124. Hair brushes and combs, 20 per cent. 152. Jewellery (including precious stones), 30 per cent. Mouldings in the piece for picture-frames, cornices, or ceilings, 20 per cent. 185. Musical instruments, n.0.e., 20 per cent. 194. Oil, perfumed, 30 per cent. 201. Paintings, framed or unframed, 20 per cent. 210. Papier-mache ware, 20 per cent. Perfumed spirits, 30s. the liquid gallon. 215. Perfumery, n.0.e., 30 per cent. Photographic enlargements (bromide or other) and photographic views of N.Z. scenery, 20 per cent. 218. Photographic goods (including chemicals), n.0.e., 20 per cent. 222. Picture-frames and mounts, including photographers' mounts and frames, 20 per cent. 223. Pipes, tobacco, cigar- and cigarette-holders and cases for same, cigarette-papers and -cases, 30 per cent. 221. Pictures, drawings, and engravings, 20 per cent. 224. Plate, gold and silver, n.0.e., 30 per cent. 225. Platedware, 30 per cent. 269. Statues, statuettes and casts, n.0.e., 20 per cent.

Customs Duties — continued. 287. Toilet preparations, n.0.e., 30 per cent. 298. Walking-sticks, 30 per cent. 300. Watches, 20 per cent.

Exemptions. Action-work, in frames or otherwise, incomplete, for organs, harmoniums, and pianos. All sensitized surfaces for photographic purposes. 325. Artists' canvas, colours, brushes, and palletknives. Family plate and paintings, being heirlooms or bequests or gifts to persons resident in the colony. Magic lanterns, lenses, and slides. Musical instruments specially imported for Volunteer or Salvation Army bands. Organs and harmoniums, communion vessels, memorial windows and tablets, ecclesiastical vestments, lecterns, statues and statuettes, pictures, and crosses, imported specially for buildings devoted to purposes of Divine worship. 428. Paintings, statuary, and works of art, presented to or imported by any public institution or art association, registered as a body corporate, for display in the buildings of such institution or association, and not for sale. Photographic cameras and lenses. Statues and statuettes in marble or bronze. Telescopes and microscopes, and lenses for same.

CLASS XL PAPER MANUFACTURES AND STATIONERY.

Customs Duties. 220. Calendars and show-cards, 30 per cent. Cardboard boxes complete, or cardboard cut and shaped for boxes, 30 per cent. Directories of the colony or of any part thereof, printed outside of the colony, 30 per cent. 132. Handbills, programmes and circulars, playhills and printed posters (other than pictorial lithographs), pamphlets and circulars relating to patent or proprietary medicines, trade catalogues and price-lists for firms or persons in business in the colony, printed or lithographed billheads, counterbooks, cheque- and draft-forms, printed tags and labels, 50 per cent.

Customs Duties — continued. 133. Ink, writing and copying, 20 per cent. Newspaper supplements, printed outside the colony, 30 per cent. 204. Paper bags, coarse, including sugar-bags, 7s. 6d. the cwt. 205. Paper bags, n.0.e., 30 per cent. Paper, blue candle, glazed cap, glazed casings, small hand, lumber hand, and tissue, 6s. the cwt. 206. Paper-hangings, 15 per cent. 208. Paper, wrapping, other kinds, ss. the cwt. 209. Paper, writing, n.0.e., 15 per cent.

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