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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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(4) If in respect of any lot of vegetables sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause or in accordance with an authority given under clause 9 hereof is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.

9. Subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any person concerned, may authorize special prices or margins of profit in respect of any vegetables to which this Order applies where for any reason extraordinary freight charges are incurred by any wholesaler or retailer in obtaining delivery from the source of supply nearest or most convenient of access to him. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of vegetables, or may relate generally to all vegetables of any kind to which this Order applies sold while the approval remains in force.

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SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF VEGETABLES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Note.—The Order does not apply to pumpkins (including squash) sold for delivery during the months of November to February inclusive.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 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.

Price Order No. 157 (Unreconditioned Second-hand Fruit-cases)

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. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 157, and shall come into force on the 24th day of September, 1943.

2. (1) Price Order No. 89† and Price Order No. 82‡ are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Price Orders shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.

3. In this Order the term “second-hand fruit-case” means a wooden package which has been used as a container for fruit and which belongs to one of the several classes of such packages described in the First Schedule to the Second-hand Fruit-case Control Notice (No.-2) 1943§.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies only with respect to unreconditioned second-hand fruit-cases of the inside dimensions specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES FOR UNRECONDITIONED SECOND-HAND FRUIT-CASES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

5. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any vendor for any unreconditioned second-hand fruit-cases to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price fixed in the second column of the Schedule hereto.

(2) Any freight charges incurred in effecting delivery to a purchaser shall be borne by the purchaser.

SCHEDULE

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 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 1037.
  † Gazette, 5th March, 1942, Vol. I, page 642.
  ‡ Gazette, 21st May, 1942, Vol. II, page 1436.
  § Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/79, page 166.

By Authority: E. V. PAUL, Government Printer, Wellington.

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