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. 225, and shall come into force on the 1st day of May 1944.

2. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,--
   “The said regulations” means the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939* :
   “Distributor”, in relation to any lot of rabbits, means a wholesaler, as defined in the said regulations, who sells those rabbits otherwise than to a retailer for purposes of retail sale :
   “Distributor's station”, in relation to the distributor of any lot of rabbits, means the railway-station that is nearest or most convenient of access to the distributor's premises from which the rabbits are delivered by the distributor :
   “North Island” includes all parts of New Zealand exclusive of the South Island and Stewart Island :
   “South Island” includes Stewart Island :
   The expression “f.o.b.c.i.” means “free on board, cases or other containers included”, and the expression “f.o.r.c.i.” means “free on rail, cases or other containers included”.

(2) Terms and expressions defined in the said regulations, when used in this Order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by those regulations.

3. The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding that any rabbits to which this Order is applicable are sold otherwise than by weight.

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

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

5. This Order applies with respect to skinned rabbits, whether cooked or uncooked, that are sold otherwise than in tins or in like containers.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF RABBITS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Distributors' Prices

6. Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any distributor for any rabbits to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows :--

Maximum Price,
(a) For rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated in the Provincial District of Otago (including Southland) .. 0 3⅞
(b) For rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated elsewhere in the South Island .. 0 4⅜
(c) For rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, Taranaki, or Hawke’s Bay .. 0 5⅞
(d) For rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated elsewhere in the North Island .. 0 4⅞

7. (1) The last preceding clause shall be read subject to the following provisions of this clause, namely:--

(a) Rabbits delivered by Distributor from Premises situated in the South Island--
(i) With respect to rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated in the South Island, the maximum prices fixed by paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the last preceding clause are fixed as for delivery f.o.b c.i. at the port in the South Island that is most convenient of access to the distributor's premises :
(ii) Where any rabbits to which the last preceding subparagraph relates are delivered otherwise than f.o.b.c.i. at a port in the South Island, the maximum price that may be charged by the distributor shall be the appropriate maximum price fixed by paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the last preceding clause, increased by the amount of the charges (if any) incurred by him in effecting delivery and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the rabbits f.o.b.c.i. at the port in the South Island that is most convenient of access to his premises.

(b) Rabbits delivered by Distributor from Premises situated in the North Island--
(i) With respect to rabbits delivered by a distributor from premises situated in the North Island, the maximum prices fixed by paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) of the last preceding clause are fixed as for delivery f.o.r.c.i. the distributor's station :
(ii) Where any rabbits to which the last preceding subparagraph relates are delivered otherwise than f.o.r.c.i. the distributor's station, the maximum price that may be charged by the distributor shall be the appropriate price fixed by paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) of the last preceding clause, increased by the amount of the charges (if any) incurred by him in effecting delivery,

and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the rabbits f.o.r.c.i. at the railway-station nearest or most convenient of access to his premises.

Wholesalers' Prices

8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause the maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler, other than a distributor, for any rabbits to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows :-

Maximum Wholesale Price, per Pound.
(a) For rabbits delivered to a retailer from wholesaler’s premises situated in the Provincial District of Otago (including Southland) .. 0 4⅜
(b) For rabbits delivered to a retailer from wholesaler’s premises situated elsewhere in the South Island .. 0 5
(c) For rabbits delivered to a retailer from wholesaler’s premises situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, Taranaki, or Hawke’s Bay .. 0 6⅝
(d) For rabbits delivered to a retailer from wholesaler’s premises situated elsewhere in the North Island .. 0 5½

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

(3) 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 this clause 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.

Retailers' Prices

9. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any rabbits to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows :--

(2) If in respect of any lot of rabbits sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.

(3) Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any rabbits to which this Order applies shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the rabbits to which it relates as to be obviously in relation thereto a ticket, placard, or label showing in legible and prominent characters the retail price per pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1944.

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

[L.S.]
W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
H. L. WISE, Member.

Notice calling up Reservists for Service with the Armed Forces

National Service Department,
Wellington, 27th March, 1944.

IT is hereby notified for general information that, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by Regulation 44 of the National Service Emergency Regulations 1940, I have, on the 27th March, 1944, issued to--

Mate Posa, Labourer, 2 Firth Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland, Registration No. 652093,
Alexander Campbell Grant, Farmer, Kiritehere R.D., Te Kuiti, Registration No. 650614,
Peter Anthony Kraus, Carpenter, 10 Avon Street, Island Bay, Wellington, Registration No. 653829, and
William Mawhinny, Labourer, 6 Buchanan Street, Timaru, Registration No. 652746,

notices calling them up for service with the Armed Forces, such persons having been severally convicted for that, being reservists belonging to a division of the Reserve the enrolment of which has been proclaimed, they did fail to make application in writing for enrolment in that class of the Reserve as required by Regulation 43 (1) of the National Service Emergency Regulations 1940.

J. S. HUNTER, Director of National Service.