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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 10

Price Order No. 659 (Amending Price Order No. 128) (Eggs)

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. 659, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 128† (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 3rd day of March, 1947.

3. The Second and Third Schedules to the principal Order, as set out in Price Order No. 657‡, are hereby revoked, and the following Schedules substituted therefor respectively:—

SECOND SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES (PER DOZEN) FOR EGGS SOLD FOR RESALE IN ANY MARKETING AREA WITHIN AN EGG-PRICE AREA

Hen Eggs.

Marketing Areas within the

Auckland Egg-price Area .. ..

| 2 10½ | 2 8½ | 2 6¼ | 2 1½ | 2 5 |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

Duck Eggs.

Standard. Medium. Small. Ungraded.

s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.

Large. Small. Ungradus

s. d. s. d. s. d.

Hawke's Bay Egg-price Area .. .. 2 9 2 7 2 5 1 11 2 4 2 6 2 4 2 2½
Wellington Egg-price Area .. .. 2 10 2 8 2 6 2 0½ 2 4½ 2 8 2 6 2 4½
Westland Egg-price Area .. .. 3 0 2 10 2 8 2 3 2 9 2 10 2 8 2 8
Christchurch Egg-price Area .. .. 2 10 2 8 2 6 2 0½ 2 4½ 2 8 2 6 2 4½
Dunedin Egg-price Area .. .. 2 10 2 8 2 6 2 0½ 2 4½ 2 8 2 6 2 4½

THIRD SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES (PER DOZEN) FOR EGGS SOLD FOR RESALE ELSEWHERE THAN IN A MARKETING AREA

Hen Eggs.

Heavy Standard Medium Pullet Ungraded.

Grade. Grade. Grade. Grade.

s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.

Auckland Egg-price Area .. .. 2 10 2 8 2 6 2 1 2 4½

Duck Eggs.

Standard. Medium. Small. Ungraded.

s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.

Large. Small. Ungraded.

s. d. s. d. s. d.

Hawke's Bay Egg-price Area .. .. 2 8½ 2 6½ 2 4½ 1 10½ 2 3½ 2 5½ 2 3½ 2 2
Wellington Egg-price Area .. .. 2 9½ 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 0 2 4 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 4
Westland Egg-price Area .. .. 3 0 2 10 2 8 2 3 2 9 2 10 2 8 2 8
Christchurch Egg-price Area .. .. 2 9½ 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 0 2 4 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 4
Dunedin Egg-price Area .. .. 2 9½ 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 0 2 4 2 7½ 2 5½ 2 4

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of February, 1947.

The Seel of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of --

[L.S.]

W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.

H. L. WISH, Member.

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

Reprinted with amendments: Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial number 1946/169, page 468.

† Gazette, 12th March, 1943, Vol. I, page 314.

‡ Gazette, 20th February, 1947, Vol. I, page 242.

Price Order No. 660 (New Zealand Lemons other than Meyer Lemons)

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. 660, and shall come into force on the 1st day of March, 1947.

2. (1) Price Orders No. 238† and No. 457‡ are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Price Orders 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,

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

“Case” means a package of the kind numbered 2 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||).

(2) References in this Order to metropolitan areas are references to the metropolitan areas described in the Schedule hereto.

(3) Terms and expressions defined in the said regulations, when used in this Order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by those regulations.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies with respect to all New-Zealand-grown lemons other than Meyer lemons.

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

6. The provisions of this Order as to maximum retail prices shall apply notwithstanding that any such lemons are sold otherwise than by weight.

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

Reprinted with amendments: Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial number 1946/169, page 468.

† Gazette, 31st May, 1944, Vol. II, page 625.

‡ Gazette, 1st November, 1945, Vol. III, page 1378.

§ Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/195, page 621.

|| Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/153, page 345.

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler for any lemons to which this Order applies shall be—

(a) When sold to a retailer carrying on business in any of the metropolitan areas of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin, or in any of the cities or boroughs of Whangarei, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Timaru, Oamaru, Gore, or Invercargill— Per case .. .. .. .. .. .. s. d. 22 0

(b) When sold to a retailer carrying on business elsewhere— Per case .. .. .. .. .. .. s. d. 21 0

(2) The maximum prices fixed by subclause (1) hereof do not include the price of the case for which an additional charge not exceeding 5d. may be made.

(3) The wholesale prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery at the wholesaler's store or other premises occupied by the wholesaler.

(4) Where delivery is effected by a wholesaler elsewhere than at premises occupied by him, he may add to the appropriate price fixed by this Order the reasonable cost of delivery, not exceeding in any case the cost that would have been incurred by him if delivery had been effected by a common carrier at current freight rates.

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum retail price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any lemons to which this Order applies shall be computed at the rate of 10d. per pound.

(2) If in respect of any lot of such lemons sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provision of this clause is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.