DEC. 12]

Price Order No. 632 (Asparagus canned by J. Wattie Canneries, Ltd.)

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. 632, and shall come into force on the 16th day of December, 1946.

2. (1) Price Orders No. 148† and No. 302‡ 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.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies with respect to all asparagus canned by or on behalf of J. Wattie Canneries, Ltd. (in this Order referred to as the canner), and marketed under the trade name of "Frimley".

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES Canner’s Prices

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by the canner for any goods to which this Order applies, when sold to a wholesaler, shall be the appropriate price specified in the Schedule hereto.
   (2) The maximum price fixed as aforesaid shall be reduced by a trade discount of 10 per cent. thereof, and the price so calculated shall be further reduced as follows:
   (a) By a discount of 3 per cent. thereof where payment is made within seven days from the date of invoice; or
   (b) By a discount of 2½ per cent. thereof where payment is made after seven days from the date of invoice but on or before the 20th day of the month following the month in which delivery is made to the wholesaler.
   (3) In respect of deliveries (whether made to a wholesaler or to any person on behalf of a wholesaler) to Auckland, Wellington, Napier, Hastings, Christchurch, Dunedin, or Invercargill, the maximum prices fixed by the foregoing provisions of this clause are fixed as for delivery free of transport charges into the consignee's store.
   (4) In respect of deliveries (whether made to a wholesaler or to any person on behalf of a wholesaler) to Greymouth, Westport, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wairoa, Masterton, Dannevirke, Hawera, Hokitika, Timaru, Oamaru, Blenheim, or Nelson, the maximum prices fixed by the foregoing provisions of this clause are fixed as for delivery by the consignor on the same terms and conditions as to payment of charges on account of sea freight, marine insurance, and rail freight as existed prior to the coming into force of this Order.

Wholesalers’ Prices

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price, that may be charged or received by any wholesaler for any goods to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price specified in the Schedule hereto.
   (2) Subject to the provisions of subclause (3) hereof, the maximum price that may be charged or received for any goods to which this Order applies by any wholesaler in the course of a business carried on elsewhere than at Auckland, Wellington, Palmerston North, Wairoa, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru, Oamaru, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Westport, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Hastings, Masterton, Dannevirke, Hawera, or Hokitika shall be the price fixed by sub-clause (1) hereof, increased as follows:
   In respect of 16 oz. containers: By 3d. per dozen.
   In respect of 30½ oz. containers: By 6d. per dozen.
   (3) The prices fixed by the foregoing provisions of this clause are fixed subject to the same terms and conditions with respect to cash and other discounts and with respect to freight arrangements as existed between individual wholesalers and retailers immediately prior to the coming into force of this Order.
   (4) The foregoing provisions of this clause shall apply with respect to sales made by the canner to a retailer for purposes of retail sale.

Retailers’ Prices

6. The maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any goods to which this Order applies shall be determined in accordance with the following provisions, namely:
   (a) When sold by a retailer in any area within which any wholesaler carrying on business at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru, Oamaru, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Westport, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Palmerston North, Wairoa, Hastings, Dannevirke, Masterton, Hawera, or Hokitika normally undertakes the free delivery of goods to retailers, the maximum retail price shall be the appropriate maximum price specified in the Schedule hereto:
   (b) When sold by a retailer in any other area, the maximum retail price shall be the appropriate maximum price specified in the Schedule hereto, increased as follows:
   In respect of 16 oz. containers: By ½d.
   In respect of 30½ oz. containers: By 1d.

7. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by the canner, or by any wholesaler or retailer, may authorize special maximum prices in respect of any goods to which this Order applies where for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the canner, wholesaler, or retailer. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of goods or may relate generally to all goods to which this Order applies sold by the canner, wholesaler, or retailer while the approval remains in force.

SCHEDULE

Maximum Basic Prices of Goods to which this Order Applies

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of December, 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. 633 (Amending Price Orders Nos. 307, 309, and 311) (Jam)

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. 633, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the several Price Orders specified in the Schedule hereto.

2. This Order shall come into force on the 13th day of December, 1946.

3. The Price Orders specified in the Schedule hereto are hereby amended by omitting from the Schedule to each Price Order the references in respect of marmalade (orange) and substituting the following references:

MANUFACTURERS’ AND WHOLESALERS’ PRICES

RETAILERS’ PRICES

SCHEDULE

No. of Price Order. Subject-matter. Reference in Gazette.

| 307 | Jam manufactured by S. Kirkpatrick and Co., Ltd., or Thompson and Hills, Ltd.| 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 99. |
| 309 | Jam manufactured by Whittome, Stevenson, and Co., Ltd. | 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 102. |
| 311 | Jam manufactured by J. Wattie Canneries, Ltd. | 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 105. |

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 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.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  Reprinted with amendments: Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial number 1946/169, page 468.
  † Gazette, 23rd July, 1943, Vol. II, page 888.
  ‡ Gazette, 18th January, 1945, Vol. I, page 46.