826 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 37

Price Order No. 731 (Amendment No. 8 of Price Orders Nos. 309, 310, and 311, and Amendment No. 3 of Price Order No. 677) (Jams)

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. 731, and shall be read together with and deemed part of each of the Price Orders Nos. 309†, 310‡, 311§, and 677|| respectively (hereinafter referred to as the principal Orders).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 4th day of July, 1947.

3. The principal Orders are hereby severally amended by inserting in the Schedule to each Order (as substituted by Price Order No. 701) and under the appropriate headings the varieties and prices set out in the Schedule hereto:—

"SCHEDULE"

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of July, 1947.

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, 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 102.
‡ Gazette, 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 105.
§ Gazette, 1st February, 1945, Vol. I, page 104.
|| Gazette, 17th April, 1947, Vol. I, page 472.

Price Order No. 730 (Jams manufactured by Plowmans (1944), 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. 730, and shall come into force on the 4th day of July, 1947.

2. (1) In this Order—

“Assorted case lot” means a lot comprising different varieties of jams, and consisting of five dozen 14 oz. containers, or two and a half dozen 28 oz. containers, or one dozen 6 lb. containers, or half-dozen 10 lb. containers, or two dozen 16 oz. jars:

“Jam” means the product obtained by the processing of cane sugar and fruit of any kind or of different kinds (with or without the admixture of other substances), whether such product is sold or offered for sale as jam, or jelly, or conserve, or marmalade, or by any other name or description.

(2) Terms and expressions defined in the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* when used in this Order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by those regulations.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) Nothing in this Order applies with respect to any jam that is specially prepared by the manufacturer for the use of diabetics and is labelled accordingly.

(2) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, this Order applies to all jam that is manufactured by Plowmans (1944), Ltd., but does not apply to jam manufactured by any other manufacturer.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Manufacturer’s Prices

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by the manufacturer for any goods to which this Order applies, when sold to a wholesaler otherwise than in assorted case lots, shall be the appropriate price specified in the Schedule hereto.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price per dozen containers that may be charged or received by the manufacturer for any goods to which this Order applies, when sold to a wholesaler in assorted case lots, shall be ascertained by dividing the sum of the appropriate maximum prices, as specified in the Schedule hereto, of all the jam comprised in the lot by the number of containers comprised in the lot and multiplying the result by twelve.

(3) The maximum prices fixed by the foregoing provisions of this clause shall be reduced by trade discount of 10 per cent. thereof, and the prices 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.

(4) 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.

(5) In respect of deliveries (whether made to a wholesaler or to any person on behalf of a wholesaler) to Greymouth, Westport, Lyttelton, Bluff, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wairoa, Masterton, Dannevirke, Hawera, Hokitika, Timaru, Oamaru, Blenheim, Nelson, Picton, or Motueka, 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, when sold otherwise than in assorted case lots, shall be the appropriate price specified in the Schedule hereto.

(2) 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 when sold in assorted case lots shall be ascertained by dividing the sum of the appropriate maximum prices, as specified in the Schedule hereto, of all the jam comprised in the lot by the number of containers comprised in the lot and multiplying the result by twelve.

(3) Subject to the provisions of subclause (5) 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, Picton, Motueka, Greymouth, Westport, Lyttelton, Bluff, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Hastings, Masterton, Dannevirke, Hawera, or Hokitika, shall be the price fixed by subclause (1) or subclause (2) hereof (whichever is appropriate), increased as follows:—

In respect of 16 oz. jars: By 6d. per dozen.
In respect of 14 oz. containers: By 3d. per dozen.
In respect of 28 oz. containers: By 6d. per dozen.
In respect of 6 lb. containers: By 1s. 3d. per dozen.
In respect of 10 lb. containers: By 2s. per dozen.
In respect of other containers: By ¼d. per pound of net contents of containers.

(4) 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.

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