Price Orders for Citrus Fruits




Nov. 29] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1419

  1. Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale in any shop any lemons to which this Order applies shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the lemons to which it relates as to be obviously descriptive thereof a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated, in legible and prominent characters, the following particulars :—
    (a) The retail price per dozen of the lemons :
    (b) The count of the lemons.

  2. Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any lemons to which this Order applies shall keep for a period of not less than two months a record showing with respect to every purchase of such lemons made by him by way of wholesale the following particulars :—
    (a) The date of purchase :
    (b) The name and address of the wholesaler from whom purchased :
    (c) The count of the lemons purchased :
    (d) The number of cases of each count purchased :
    (e) The price paid.

SCHEDULE
MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF LEMONS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Count. Wholesale : Per Three-quarter-bushel Case. Retail.
When sold at Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson Greymouth, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Gore, and Invercargill (including Suburban Areas of any such Places). When sold Elsewhere.
Per Dozen. Per Half-dozen. Per Quarter-dozen. For One or each of Two. Per Dozen. Per Half-dozen. Per Quarter-dozen. For One or each of Two.
s. d. s. d. s. d. d. d. s. d. s. d. d. d.
88 12 6 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
90 12 9 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
100 14 6 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
108 15 6 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
113 16 3 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
120 17 6 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
125 18 3 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 3½ 8 3
140 16 3 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
144 16 9 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
158 18 6 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
162 19 0 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
175 20 6 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
180 21 0 2 0 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0½
193 16 9 1 6 0 9 1 7 0 9½ 5 2
198 17 6 1 6 0 9 1 7 0 9½ 5 2
210 15 3 1 3 0 7½ 4 1 4 0 8 4
216 15 9 1 3 0 7½ 4 1 4 0 8 4
234 14 0 1 0 0 6 3 1 1 1 0 6½
240 14 0 1 0 0 6 3 1 1 1 0 6½
245 14 3 1 0 0 6 3 1 1 1 0 6½
264 11 6 0 9 0 4½ 1 0 10 0 5 1
270 11 9 0 9 0 4½ 1 0 10 0 5 1

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of November, 1943.

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

[L.S.] W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
LEO MUNRO, Associate Member.

Price Order No. 180 (New-Zealand-grown Citrus Fruits)

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 :—

  1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 180, and shall come into force on the 30th day of November, 1943.

  2. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
    “Bushel case” means a package of the kind numbered 1 in the First Schedule to the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations 1940†, as substituted by Regulation 6 of the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 3‡ :
    “Three-quarter-bushel case” means a package of the kind numbered 3 in the said First Schedule :
    “Half-bushel case”,—
    (a) In relation to Meyer lemons, means a package of the kind numbered 6 in the said First Schedule ; and
    (b) In relation to other citrus fruit to which this Order applies, means a package of the kind numbered 5 in the said First Schedule :
    “Quarter-bushel case” means a package of the kind numbered 7 or 9 in the said First Schedule.

(2) References in this Order to grades or counts are references to grades or counts determined in accordance with the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations 1940.†

(3) Terms and expressions defined in the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939* and used in this Order have the meanings severally assigned thereto by those regulations.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

  1. This Order applies with respect to all New-Zealand-grown citrus fruits, including Meyer lemons, but not including any other kind of lemons.

  2. The maximum prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction as well as to other sales.

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES

  1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum wholesale price of any Meyer lemons to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price prescribed in the First Schedule hereto.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum wholesale prices of any other citrus fruit to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto.

(3) The wholesale prices fixed by this Order include the prices of the cases in which the fruit is delivered to the purchaser.

(4) The wholesale prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery at the wholesaler’s store or other premises from which delivery to the purchaser is effected.

(5) Where delivery is effected by a wholesaler elsewhere than at premises occupied by him, he may add to the appropriate price fixed in accordance with the First or Second Schedule hereto the reasonable cost of delivery, not exceeding in any case the cost that would have been incurred by him if delivery had been effected by a common carrier at current freight rates.

  • Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057. † Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/195, page 621. ‡ Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/153, page 345.


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🏭 Price Order No. 179 for New Zealand Lemons (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
25 November 1943
Price Order, New Zealand Lemons, Control of Prices Emergency Regulations, Retail Prices, Wholesale Prices
  • W. J. Hunter (Judge), President
  • Leo Munro, Associate Member

🏭 Price Order No. 180 for New Zealand-grown Citrus Fruits

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Price Order, Citrus Fruits, Meyer Lemons, Control of Prices Emergency Regulations, Wholesale Prices