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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1943.

Price Order No. 125.—Retail Prices of Milk and Cream in Wellington Metropolitan Area.

Pursuant to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order:—

PRELIMINARY.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 125.
   (2) This Order shall come into force on the 25th day of February, 1943.

2. In this Order—
   “Milk” means raw milk or pasteurized milk, but does not include milk in any other form:
   “The basic period” means the period that commenced on the 27th day of November, 1941, and ended on the 8th day of April, 1942:
   “The Wellington Metropolitan Area” means the area described in the Schedule hereto.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER.

3. (1) This Order shall apply with respect to all milk and cream sold by way of retail to any person within the Wellington Metropolitan Area after the commencement of this Order and on or before the 15th day of April, 1943.
   (2) For the purposes of this Order any milk or cream sold as part of a meal or compounded with other ingredients and sold as a beverage shall not be deemed to be sold by way of retail.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES.

4. The maximum retail price of any milk or cream to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows:—
   (a) In the case of a retailer who was engaged at any time within the basic period in selling milk or cream by way of retail within the Wellington Metropolitan Area the maximum retail price to any customer shall be the usual price charged by him for milk or cream sold during the basic period to a customer of the same class, on the same or substantially the same terms and conditions:
   (b) In the case of a retailer to whom the last preceding paragraph does not apply the maximum retail price to any customer shall be the usual price charged by his predecessor in business (if any) for milk or cream sold during the basic period to a customer of the same class, on the same or substantially the same terms and conditions:
   (c) In the case of a retailer to whom neither paragraph (a) nor paragraph (b) of this clause is applicable, the maximum retail price to any customer shall be the usual price charged by a retailer carrying on business in the same locality for milk or cream sold during the basic period to a customer of the same class, on the same or substantially the same terms and conditions.

5. (1) Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding clause, the price that may be charged by any retailer for any milk to which this Order applies shall not exceed a price computed at the rate of 3½d. a pint, or at the rate of 6½d. a quart.
   (2) For the purposes of this clause the price of milk sold in quantities not less than a quart shall be computed at the prescribed rate per quart.
   (3) Where the price of any milk computed as aforesaid is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the price of that milk shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.

6. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Order, the price that may be charged by any retailer for any cream to which this Order applies shall not exceed—
   (a) For cream sold in reputed pint, half-pint, or quarter-pint measures—
   22d. per pint measure;
   11d. per half-pint measure; or
   6d. per quarter-pint measure;
   (b) For cream sold otherwise than in pint, half-pint, or quarter-pint measures as aforesaid—
   A price computed at the rate of 22d. per pint

7. Where any customer has, before the commencement of this Order, paid in advance for any milk or cream to which this Order applies (by the purchase of tokens or otherwise) he shall, on application to the vendor, be entitled to a refund of the amount paid in excess or to an adjustment, to the extent of the excess, in the price of future supplies.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WELLINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ORDER.

The cities of Wellington and Lower Hutt, the boroughs of Petone, Eastbourne, and Upper Hutt, the town district of Johnsonville, so much of the Hutt County as lies generally to the south of the Kaitoke Hills, and so much of the Makara County as lies generally to the south of the Paekakariki Hills.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1943.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

[L.S.] W. J. Hunter (Judge), President.
H. L. Wise, Member.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.