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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 39

The Foodstuffs Rationing Coupon Notice (No. 2) 1944,
Amendment No. 2

PURSUANT to the Rationing Emergency Regulations 1942, the
Rationing Controller hereby gives the following directions :—

1. This notice may be cited as the Foodstuffs Rationing
   Coupon Notice (No. 2) 1944, Amendment No. 2, and shall be read
   together with and deemed part of the Foodstuffs Rationing Coupon
   Notice (No. 2) 1944* (hereinafter referred to as the principal notice).

2. This notice shall come into force on the 11th day of June,

4. Clause 5 of the principal notice (which prescribes the ration
   of butter) is hereby amended by omitting so much thereof as relates
   to coupons Nos. 33 to 52, and substituting the following :—

"First Column. .. .. Second Column.
"Nos. 33 to 35 .. .. 11 June to 8 July.
"Nos. 37 to 39 .. .. 9 July to 5 Aug.
"Nos. 41 to 43 .. .. 6 Aug. to 2 Sept.
"Nos. 45 to 47 .. .. 3 Sept. to 30 Sept.
"Nos. 49 to 51 .. .. 1 Oct. to 28 Oct."

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of June, 1945.

A. J. COSTELLOE, Rationing Controller.

• Gazette, 19th October, 1944, Vol. III, page 1266.
  Amendment No. 1: Gazette, 16th March, 1945, Vol. I, page 297.

Surplus War Assets for Sale

THE War Assets Realization Board, Defence Services Building,
Bunny Street, Wellington (postal address, Box 5080, Lambton
Quay, Wellington), invites offers for—

1. TENTS, TENT-FLYS, MARQUEES, and BIVOUAC SHEETS, at
   Ngaruawahia, Palmerston North, Trentham, and Burn-
   ham.

2. TYPEWRITERS, at Wellington and Harewood.

3. SCRAP METALS, FERROUS AND NON-FERROUS, at various
   localities.

4. PACKING-CASES, heavy, large sizes, at Wellington.

Offers close with the Board’s Secretary, to whom they should
be addressed in envelopes marked "Offer for . . . . . . . ," at noon
on Monday, 2nd July, 1945. Full particulars and conditions of
sale are obtainable from the Board’s Wellington office, the offices
of the Board’s District Executive Officers, Dilworth Building, Auck-
land, and old Art Gallery Building, Christchurch, and also at the
Public Works Department, Dunedin.

DRUMS, 44-GALLON, HEAVY GALVANIZED, are also for sale at
£2 5s. each. Application therefor should be made to Army Head-
quarters, Wellington, and Defence Headquarters, Auckland and
Christchurch.

O. CONIBEAR,
Secretary, War Assets Realization Board.

Price Order No. 380 (New-Zealand-grown Citrus Fruits)

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 :—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 380, and shall come into force on the 11th day of June, 1945.

2. (1) Price Order No. 269† 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,—

"Bushel case" means a package of the kind numbered 1 in the First Schedule to the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations 1940‡,
as substituted by Regulation 6 of the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 3§ :

"Three-quarter-bushel case" means a package of the kind numbered 3 in the said First Schedule :

"Half-bushel case",—

(a) In relation to Meyer lemons, means a package of the kind numbered 6 in the said First Schedule ; and

(b) In relation to other citrus fruit to which this Order applies, means a package of the kind numbered 5 in the said First
Schedule :

"Quarter-bushel case" means a package of the kind numbered 7 or 9 in the said First Schedule.

(2) References in this Order to grades are references to grades determined in accordance with the New-Zealand-grown Fruit Regulations
1940‡.

(3) Terms and expressions defined in the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939*, when used in this Order, have the meanings
severally assigned thereto by those regulations.

4. No fruit to which this Order applies shall be graded or regraded by any auctioneer.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

5. This Order applies with respect to all New-Zealand-grown citrus fruits, including Meyer lemons, but not including any other kind of
   lemons.

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

7. (1) The provisions of this Order as to maximum wholesale prices shall apply notwithstanding that any fruit to which this Order applies
   is sold otherwise than in bushel cases, three-quarter-bushel cases, half-bushel cases, or quarter-bushel cases.

(2) If any lot of fruit to which this Order applies is sold by a wholesaler otherwise than in a case of one of the sizes specified in the last
preceding subclause, the maximum price of the lot shall be determined as follows :—

(a) Where the fruit (other than Meyer lemons) in the lot is over a bushel, the price of the lot shall bear the same proportion to
the maximum price of a bushel-case lot as the net weight of the lot bears to 41 lb. :

(b) Where any lot of Meyer lemons is over three-quarters of a bushel (whether or not the lot exceeds one bushel), the price of
the lot shall bear the same proportion to the maximum price of a three-quarter-bushel-case lot as the net weight of the
lot bears to 33 lb. :

(c) Where any lot of Meyer lemons is over a half-bushel but is less than three-quarters of a bushel, the price of the lot shall bear
the same proportion to the maximum price of a half-bushel-case as the net weight of the lot bears to 17 lb. :

(d) Where the fruit (other than Meyer lemons) in the lot is over a half-bushel but is less than a bushel, the price of the lot shall
bear the same proportion to the maximum price of a half-bushel-case lot as the net weight of the lot bears to 20 lb. :

(e) Where the fruit in the lot is over a quarter-bushel but is less than a half-bushel, the price of the lot shall bear the same proportion
to the maximum price of a quarter-bushel-case lot as the net weight of the lot bears to 11 lb.

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES

8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum wholesale price of any Meyer lemons to which this Order applies shall
   be the appropriate price prescribed in the First Schedule hereto.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum wholesale price of any other citrus fruit to which this Order applies shall
be the appropriate price prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto.

(3) The maximum wholesale prices fixed by subclauses (1) and (2) hereof are fixed as for cases containing fruit of a weight not less
than as follows :—

Minimum Weight of Fruit.
One-bushel case (No. 1 case) .. .. .. .. .. .. 39 lb.
Three-quarter-bushel case (No. 3 case) .. .. .. .. .. 31 lb.
Half-bushel case (No. 5 case) .. .. .. .. .. .. 19 lb.
Half-bushel case (No. 6 case) .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 lb.
Quarter-bushel case (No. 7 and No. 9 case) .. .. .. .. .. 10 lb.

(4) Where any case does not contain the prescribed minimum weight of fruit set out in subclause (3) hereof for that particular type
of case, the maximum wholesale price of the case shall be reduced for each pound or part of a pound by which the weight of the fruit is
less than the prescribed minimum weight as follows :—

In respect of Meyer lemons—
Extra fancy and fancy grade—
During months June to October, inclusive : By 9d.
During months November to May, inclusive : By 11d.
Commercial grade—
During months June to October, inclusive : By 8d.
During months November to May, inclusive : By 10d.
In respect of oranges (sweet)—
Extra fancy and fancy grade : By 10d.
Commercial grade : By 8d.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1075. † Gazette, 18th August, 1944, Vol. II, page 1014. ‡ Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/195, page 621. § Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/153, page 345.