Num. 12 291

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1946
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946

Price Order No. 499 (Milk and Cream) (Auckland Metropolitan Milk District)

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. 499, and shall come into force on the 1st day of March, 1946.

2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“ Auckland Metropolitan Milk District ” means the district of that name constituted under the Milk Act, 1944, by Order in Council dated the 27th day of June, 1945†:

“ Chilled ”, in reference to milk, means milk that has been chilled to a temperature of 40° F. or less by mechanical refrigeration :

“ Milk-vendor ” means a person who buys milk or cream for resale off his premises.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) Nothing in this Order shall apply with respect to milk sold by a milk-producer who is a member of an association of milk-producers approved by the Minister of Marketing.

(2) This Order applies—

(a) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, with respect to all milk wherever produced that is sold during the period 1st March, 1946, to 31st August, 1946, by a milk-producer to a milk-vendor within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District ; and

(b) With respect to all milk and cream wherever produced that is sold during the period 1st March, 1946, to 31st August, 1946, by a milk-vendor to a Hospital Board within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District for use in any institution under the control of that Board or to any separate institution within the meaning of the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District for use in that institution.

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 by any milk-producer for any milk to which this Order applies sold to a milk-vendor within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District shall be computed at the rate of 1s. 5½d. per gallon.

(2) The price fixed by the last preceding subclause is fixed as for milk that has been chilled by the producer and delivered at the depot of the milk-vendor.

(3) Where any milk to which this Order applies has not been chilled by the milk-producer, the maximum price fixed by sub-clause (1) hereof shall be reduced by 0·33d. per gallon.

(4) Where any milk to which this Order applies has been delivered by the milk-producer at the premises of the producer or at a collection stand the maximum price fixed by subclause (1) or subclause (3) hereof (whichever is applicable) shall be reduced by 0·875d. per gallon.

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any milk-vendor for any milk or cream to which this Order applies sold to any Hospital Board or any separate institution within the meaning of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, shall be computed as follows :—

With respect to milk : At the rate of 1s. 7¾d. per gallon.

With respect to cream : At the rate of 14s. per gallon.

(2) The prices fixed by the last preceding subclause are fixed as for delivery at the premises of the purchaser.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1946.

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. 500 (Meadow Hay, Lucerne Hay, and Chaff)

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. 500, and shall come into force on the 4th day of March, 1946.

2. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“ The said regulations ” means the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939* :

“ Distributor ”, in relation to any produce to which this Order applies, means a wholesaler as defined in the said regulations who sells such produce otherwise than to a retailer for purposes of retail sale :

“ Grower ”, in relation to any produce to which this Order applies, means a person engaged in the business of growing such produce for sale :

The expression “ f.o.b.” means free on board, and the expression “ f.o.r.” means free on rail.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 28th June, 1945, Vol. II, page 839.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.