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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1944
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1944
Price Order No. 260 (Amending Price Order No. 244)
(Seed Potatoes)
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 amending Price Order:-

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 260, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 244† (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order").
2. This Order shall come into force on the 26th day of July, 1944.
3. The principal Order is hereby amended by revoking sub-clauses (2), (3), and (4) of clause 10 and substituting the following subclauses :-
   "(2) Where any potatoes to which this Order applies are sold by any wholesaler or retailer in lots of 7 lb., or 14 lb., or 28 lb., or 56 lb., or 112 lb., or 168 lb., the price shall not in any case exceed :-

Certified Seed Potatoes. Uncertified Seed Potatoes.
s. d. s. d.
"For 7 lb. lots .. .. 2 9 2 0
"For 14 lb lots .. .. 5 0 3 9
"For 28 lb. lots .. .. 9 0 6 9
"For 56 lb. lots .. .. 15 6 11 9
"For 112 lb. lots .. .. 25 0 19 0
"For 168 lb. lots .. .. 37 6 28 6

"(3) Where any such potatoes are sold by any wholesaler or retailer in a lot exceeding 7 lb. but otherwise than in a lot of any of the weights specified in the last preceding subclause, the maximum price per pound of any surplus over 7 lb. or over any multiple of 7 lb. (being less in every case than 7 lb.) shall be :-
s. d.
"For certified seed potatoes .. .. 0 5
"For uncertified seed potatoes .. .. 0 3½

"(4) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this clause the wholesale or retail price of any potatoes to which this Order applies shall not in any case exceed :-
Per Pound.
s. d.
" For certified seed potatoes .. .. 0 5
" For uncertified seed potatoes .. .. 0 3⅟₂"
Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of July, 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.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 6th June, 1944, Vol. II, page 683.
  Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the City of Wellington, Wellington Land District
  C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
  ORDER IN COUNCIL
  At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of July, 1944 Present:
  HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
  WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for the purposes of a general hospital :
  And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for a vice-regal residence:
  Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for the purposes of a general hospital to a reserve for a vice-regal residence.
  SCHEDULE
  WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT
  ALL that area in the City of Wellington containing by admeasurement 35.4 perches, more or less, being part of the Town Belt (reserve for the purposes of a general hospital—New Zealand Gazette, 1939, pages 3180 and 3181), adjoining the Town of Wellington, bounded towards the west by part of the said Town Belt (reserve for vice-regal residence—New Zealand Gazette, 1939, pages 3180 and 3181), 440.84 and 314.92 links ; towards the east by other part of the said Town Belt (reserve for purposes of a general hospital—New Zealand Gazette, 1939, pages 3180 and 3181), distance 307.62 links bearing 175° 10' 50", distance 446.81 links bearing 167° 11' 44"; and towards the south by the abutment of Coromandel Street 37.6 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/1/167J, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
  C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
  (L. and S. 6/1/167.)