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(b) If on any day within the period the quantity of milk supplied
to the purchaser (exclusive of quantities delivered in
measurements of half-pint or less) was not less than one
gallon, the price of the milk so supplied shall be computed
in accordance with subclause (3) hereof :
(c) For all other milk to which the account relates the price
shall be computed at a rate not exceeding the appro-
priate rate fixed in the Schedule hereto for two pints.

(5) Where any milk or cream to which this Order applies is sold
otherwise than in one of the quantities specified in the Schedule
hereto, or otherwise than in a multiple of any specified quantity,
the price shall be computed as follows :—
(a) Where the quantity supplied is less than the smallest
specified quantity, the price shall be a proportionate
part of the price of the smallest specified quantity :
(b) Where the quantity supplied exceeds a specified quantity
but is less than twice the specified quantity, the price
of any surplus over that specified quantity shall be a
proportionate part of the price of that specified quantity.
(c) Where the quantity supplied exceeds twice the amount of
the nearest lower specified quantity, but is not an exact
multiple of that specified quantity, the price of any surplus
over the nearest multiple of the specified quantity shall
be a proportionate part of that specified quantity.

(6) If in respect of any milk or cream the price charged in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an
exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price shall be
the nearest upward halfpenny.

SCHEDULE
MAXIMUM PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM SOLD IN THE INVERCARGILL
MILK DISTRICT TO SHOP DAIRIES, COMMERCIAL USERS, OR
CONSUMERS

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1945.

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. 327 (Milk) (Napier)

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. 327, and shall
   come into force on the 1st day of March, 1945.
2. In this Order—
   “ Napier Milk District ” means the district referred to in
   the Napier Milk Delivery Scheme, 1940† :
   “ Commercial user ” means a person who buys milk or cream
   for sale for consumption on his premises (whether in
   the form in which it is received by him or otherwise
   and whether separately or in combination with any
   other substance or substances) :
   “ Consumer ” means a person who buys milk or cream for
   purposes other than resale :
   “ Shop dairy ” means a shop where milk or cream is sold for
   consumption or use off the premises and not otherwise
   and where the milk or cream so sold is sold in the form
   in which it was received into the shop dairy.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) Nothing in this Order shall apply with respect to milk
   or cream sold to a Hospital Board for use in any institution under
   the control of that Board or to milk or cream sold for use in any
   separate institution within the meaning of the Hospitals and
   Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 5th September, 1940, Vol. III, page 2281.

(2) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, this
Order applies with respect to all milk and cream wherever produced
that is sold—
(a) To the occupier of any shop dairy within the Napier Milk
District ; or
(b) By the occupier of a shop dairy or by any other person
to a commercial user or to a consumer within the Napier
Milk District.

FIXING PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause the
   maximum price that may be charged or received for any milk or
   cream to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set
   out in the Schedule hereto.
   (2) The prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery as
   follows :—
   (a) In respect of milk or cream sold by the occupier of a shop
   dairy : As for delivery to the purchaser at the shop dairy :
   (b) In respect of milk or cream sold otherwise than at a shop
   dairy : As for delivery at the premises of the purchaser.
   (3) Where the quantity of milk delivered to any one purchaser
   in any one day (exclusive of quantities delivered in measurements
   of half-pint or less) is not less than one gallon, the maximum price
   that may be charged shall be computed by reference to the total
   quantity of milk so delivered to the purchaser during that day.
   (4) Where an account is rendered to any purchaser for milk
   supplied to him during a period comprising more than one day, the
   price that may be charged for the milk to which the account relates
   shall be computed as follows :—
   (a) For all milk supplied in measurements of half-pint or less
   than half-pint, the price shall be computed separately
   at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed by
   this Order :
   (b) If on any day within the period the quantity of milk supplied
   to the purchaser (exclusive of quantities delivered in
   measurements of half-pint or less) was not less than one
   gallon, the price of the milk so supplied shall be computed
   in accordance with subclause (3) hereof :
   (c) For all other milk to which the account relates the price shall
   be computed at a rate not exceeding the appropriate
   rate fixed in the Schedule hereto for two pints.

(5) Where any milk or cream to which this Order applies is
sold otherwise than in one of the quantities specified in the Schedule
hereto, or otherwise than in a multiple of any specified quantity,
the price shall be computed as follows :—
(a) Where the quantity supplied is less than the smallest
specified quantity, the price shall be a proportionate
part of the price of the smallest specified quantity.
(b) Where the quantity supplied exceeds a specified quantity
but is less than twice the specified quantity, the price
of any surplus over that specified quantity shall be a
proportionate part of the price of that specified quantity.
(c) Where the quantity supplied exceeds twice the amount of
the nearest lower specified quantity but is not an exact
multiple of that specified quantity, the price of any
surplus over the nearest multiple of the specified quantity
shall be a proportionate part of that specified quantity.

(6) If in respect of any milk or cream the price charged in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an
exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price shall be
the nearest upward halfpenny

SCHEDULE
MAXIMUM PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM SOLD IN THE NAPIER MILK
DISTRICT TO SHOP DAIRIES, COMMERCIAL USERS, OR CONSUMERS

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of February, 1945.

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

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