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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 30

SECOND SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT

(Fixed by reference to basic prices)

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of April, 1944.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—
[L.S.]

H. L. WISE, Member.
LEO MUNRO, Associate Member.

Price Order No. 220 (Meat sold Elsewhere than in the Wellington Abattoir District)

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. 220, and shall come into force on the 17th day of April, 1944.

2. (1) Price Order No. 98† is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Price Order shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.

3. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, “the said specification” means the New Zealand Emergency Standard Specification (No. N.Z.S.S. E. 79) entitled “Grades of Meat for Sale on the Local Market and Definitions of Joints and Cuts,” issued by the New Zealand Standards Institute under the authority of the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Industries and Commerce, and, subject to the proviso hereto, includes any amendment of the said specification that may hereafter be made: Provided that, for the purposes of this Order, no such amendment shall have any effect before the expiration of seven days after the date of publication in the Gazette of a notification of the making of the amendment.
   (2) References in this Order to the kind, description, or grade of any meat shall be deemed respectively to be references to the kind, description, or grade of such meat within the meaning and for the purposes of the said specification.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) This Order applies only with respect to retail sales of meat intended for human consumption and sold elsewhere than in the Wellington Abattoir District constituted under the Meat Act, 1939.
   (2) All meat sold or delivered to a purchaser during the currency of this Order shall be deemed to be intended for human consumption unless it is sold for some other specific purpose.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

5. (1) The basic retail prices of meat of the kinds and descriptions specified in the First Schedule hereto shall be the appropriate prices prescribed in that Schedule.
   (2) Except where an increase or reduction in the retail price of any such meat is authorized or required to be made in accordance with the Second Schedule hereto, or the following provisions of this Order, the maximum retail price of any such meat shall be calculated at the rate of the appropriate basic price fixed in accordance with the First Schedule hereto.
   (3) If in respect of any lot of meat the maximum price calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Order is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.

6. (1) The maximum retail prices as aforesaid are fixed in respect of cash sales of meat delivered over the counter.
   (2) Where delivery of any meat is effected otherwise than over the counter or where the sale is not for cash, the maximum retail price of that meat shall be the appropriate maximum retail price as fixed by this Order, increased by 1d. per pound.
   (3) No additional charges shall be made by a retailer for wrapping any meat to which this Order applies, or for trimming or other incidental and customary services performed in relation to the retailing of any such meat.

VARIATION OF MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES BY REASON OF VARIATION IN PRICES OF PRIME-QUALITY LIVE-STOCK

7. (1) For the purposes of this clause the basic wholesale values of meat derived from prime-quality live-stock shall be as follows:—
   (a) Veal: 4½d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop:
   (b) Ox and Heifer Beef: 36s. per 100 lb. carcass-weight of cattle purchased on the market or, alternatively, 4d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop:
   (c) Pork: 7d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop:
   (d) Lamb: 7½d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop:
   (e) Wether and Maiden Ewe Mutton (other than hogget mutton): 5d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop:
   (f) Hogget Mutton: 6d. per pound of carcass delivered into retailer’s shop.
   (2) If in any locality within which this Order applies the average price paid by retailers for meat derived from prime-quality live-stock is less during any continuous period of four weeks than the basic wholesale value of such meat fixed in accordance with the last preceding subclause, the maximum retail price in that locality of meat of the same kind shall, after the expiration of the said period of four weeks, be at the rate of the appropriate maximum retail price fixed in accordance with clause 5 hereof and the Second Schedule hereto, reduced by one halfpenny per pound for every full halfpenny per pound by which the average price paid by retailers during the aforesaid period of four weeks is less than the basic wholesale value.
   (3) The maximum retail price fixed in accordance with the last preceding subclause shall continue to operate for a period of four successive weeks, irrespective of any variation within that period of the prices paid by retailers in the locality.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/241, page 594.