NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of regulations and orders as under:

Notice is also given of the reprinting of a regulation as under:-

| Emergency Regulations Act, 1939 .. | Rationing Emergency Regulations 1942 (Reprint) | 1944/130 | 8/9/44 | 9d. |

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting serial number.

E.' V. PAUL, Government Printer.

Price Order No. 274 (Amending Price Order No. 254)

(Condensed Milk)

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. 274, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 254† (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order").

2. This Order shall come into force on the 18th day of September, 1944.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 6th July, 1944, Vol. II, page 866.

3. Clause 6 of the principal Order is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subclause:—
   “(2) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this clause and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any retailer, may authorize special maximum retail prices in respect of any condensed milk to which this Order applies where for any reason extraordinary freight charges are incurred by the 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 subclause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of condensed milk or may relate generally to all condensed milk to which this Order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.”

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

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. 275 (Amending Price Order No. 142) (Apples and Pears)

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. 275, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 142† (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order").

2. This Order shall come into force on the 18th day of September, 1944.

3. The First Schedule to the principal Order, as set out in Price Order No. 270‡, is hereby revoked, and the following Schedule substituted therefor:--

FIRST SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES OF APPLES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 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, 4th June, 1943, Vol. II, page 649. ‡ Gazette, 18th August, 1944,
  Vol. II, page 1016.