Nov. 27]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Price Order No. 787 (Amending Price Order No. 128) (Eggs)

P URSUANT 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. 787, 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 1st day of December, 1947.

3. The Second and Third Schedules to the principal Order, as set out in Price Order No. 782‡, 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

“THIRD SCHEDULE

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

4. (1) Price Order No. 782‡ 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.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 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, 12th March, 1943, Vol. I, page 314.
  ‡ Gazette, 13th November, 1947, Vol. III, page 1773.

Price Order No. 789 (Matches)

P URSUANT 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. 789, and shall come into force on the 28th day of November, 1947.

2. Price Orders No. 96†, No. 461‡, No. 494§, and No. 582|| are hereby revoked.

3. 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

4. This Order applies only with respect to the matches specified in the Schedule hereto.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF MATCHES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

5. Subject to the following provisions of this Order, the maximum price that may be charged by a manufacturer, a wholesaler, or a retailer for any matches to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set out in the Schedule hereto.

6. The maximum prices that may be charged by a manufacturer or a wholesaler are fixed subject to the customary delivery terms in operation at the date of this Order, and in any case where such delivery terms are discontinued or altered the said maximum prices shall be reduced by an amount commensurate with any extra delivery charges incurred by the purchaser.

7. The maximum price that any wholesaler may charge for a lesser quantity than a five-case lot is fixed subject to the customary cash discount ruling at the date of this Order, and in any case where such discount is not allowed the said maximum price shall be reduced by the amount of such discount.

8. (1) The retail prices set out in the Schedule with respect to dozen-box lots and three-box lots shall apply at all places in New Zealand where a place of business of a wholesaler buying such matches, freight paid, is situate ; at any place in New Zealand where there is no wholesaler buying freight paid the said prices may be increased by the amount of the freight charges that would have been incurred had the matches been purchased from the nearest wholesaler buying “freight-paid.”

(2) For the purposes of this clause, where the place of business of any retailer is situate within ten miles of the place of business of a wholesaler it shall be deemed to be situate in the same place of business as that wholesaler.

9. The maximum prices set out in the Schedule with respect to lesser quantities than three-box lots shall apply at all places in New Zealand.

10. With respect to sales by a retailer of any number of boxes, in whatever parcels or lots, the maximum price shall (if a price per dozen-box lots is prescribed) be the maximum price for the number of dozen boxes included, together (if a price for three-box lots is prescribed) with the maximum price for the number of quarter-dozens included in excess of exact dozens, together with the maximum price for the number of single boxes included in excess of exact quarter-dozens.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  Reprinted with amendments : Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial number 1946/169, page 468.
  † Statutory Regulations 1942, Serial number 1942/212, page 501.
  ‡ Gazette, 1st November, 1945, Vol. III, page 1384.
  § Gazette, 21st February, 1946, Vol. I, page 257.
  || Gazette, 25th July, 1946, Vol. II, page 1030.