FEB. 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 107

Price Order No. 312 (Amending Price Order No. 300) (Apricots, Peaches, Plums)

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. 312, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 300† (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 1945.

3. The principal Order is hereby amended as follows:—

   (a) By adding to subclause (2) of clause 4 the following words:—

    “For the purposes of this subclause a half-case or a quarter-case shall not be deemed to be a special container.”

   (b) By revoking subclause (3) of clause 6.

   (c) By adding to paragraph (a) of subclause (1) of clause 9 the following words:—

    “including a proportionate part of the cost of the case or other container.”

   (d) By revoking subclause (3) of clause 9 and substituting the following subclause:—

    “(3) In computing the price per pound or the transport charges per pound paid or payable by a retailer for or in respect of any fruit, the total price of the fruit (including the price of the case or other container) or the total transport charges, as the case may be, paid or payable by him for any lot of fruit shall be divided by the reputed number of pounds of fruit comprised in the lot, and the result shall be deemed to be the price per pound or the transport charges per pound paid or payable by the retailer as aforesaid.”

   (e) By revoking the Schedule to the principal Order and substituting therefor the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF FRUIT TO WHICH THE PRINCIPAL ORDER APPLIES

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 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.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 11th January, 1945, Vol. I, page 21

Price Order No. 313 (Carrots, Parsnips, Swedes, Cabbages, Pumpkins, Kumaras, Silver Beet)

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. 313, and shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 1945.

2. (1) Price Orders No. 146†, No. 156‡, No. 172§, and No. 287∥ are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Orders shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 20th July, 1943, Vol. II, page 795.
  ‡ Gazette, 21st September, 1943, Vol. III, page 1127.
  § Gazette, 4th November, 1943, Vol. III, page 1288.
  ∥ Gazette, 2nd November, 1944, Vol. III, page 1312.
  ¶ Statutory Regulations 1945, Serial number 1945/5, page 6.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) This Order applies with respect to the sale for human consumption of vegetables of any of the classes specified in the Schedule hereto.

(2) Every sale of any such vegetables shall be deemed to be a sale for human consumption unless at the time of sale there is a bona fide agreement or stipulation between the buyer and the seller that the vegetables to which the sale relates are intended for a specific purpose other than human consumption.

4. Except with respect to cases or other containers specified in the Schedule to the Sale of Fruit and Vegetable Containers Emergency Regulations 1945¶, the maximum prices fixed in this Order include the price of the case or other container.

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

6. The wholesale prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales of the following classes, namely:—

   (a) Sales to retailers (whether made by the grower or any other person); and