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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 3

Price Order No. 648 (Plain and Iodised Salt)

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. 648, and shall come into force on the 27th day of January, 1947.

2. (1) Price Order No. 297+ is hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Order 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 plain or iodised salt-

(a) That is packed in pourer drums by the National Dairy Association of New Zealand, Ltd., and is marketed under the trade-name "Glacia"; or

(b) That is packed in pourer drums by N. W. Stevens, Ltd., and is marketed under the trade-name "New Century".

Fixing Maximum Prices for Salt to Which this Order Applies

Packers' Prices

4. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by the packer for any salt to which this Order applies, when sold to a wholesaler, shall be:-

(a) "Glacia" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 8s. 6d. per dozen.

(b) "New Century" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 8s. 7d. per dozen.

(2) The prices fixed by this clause are fixed as for delivery by the packer in accordance with established trade practice.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057. Reprinted with amendments: Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial number 1946/169, page 468.

• Gazette, 21st December, 1944, Vol. III, page 1551.

Wholesalers' Prices

5. The maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler for any salt to which this Order applies, when sold to a retailer, shall be:-

(a) "Glacia" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 9s. 9d. per dozen.

(b) "New Century" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 9s. 9d. per dozen.

Retailers' Prices

6. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any salt to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows:-

(a) Where the retailer's premises are situate in an area within which any general wholesale merchant normally undertakes the free delivery of goods to retailers:-

"Glacia" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 1s. 0½d. per drum.

"New Century" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 1s. 0½d. per drum.

(b) In every other case-

"Glacia" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 1s. 1d. per drum.

"New Century" (plain or iodised) salt-

For pourer drums : 1s. 1d. per drum.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing provisions of this clause and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any retailer, may authorize special maximum retail prices in respect of any salt to which this Order applies where for any reason extraordinary freight charges are incurred by the retailer in obtaining delivery from the source of supply that is nearest or most convenient of access to him. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this subclause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of salt or may apply generally to all salt to which this Order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1947.

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

W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.

[L.S.]

H. L. WISE, Member.

Decisions of the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936

Bureau of Industry, C.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the authority conferred on the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936, the following decisions have been made in respect of the applications for licenses.

G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary.

Retail Sale and Distribution of Motor-spirit