Num. 19

387

NEW ZEALAND

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1948

Price Order No. 868 (Sugar)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Act, 1947, 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. 868, and shall come into force on the 12th day of April, 1948.

2. (1) Price Order No. 767* 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.

3. (1) In this Order—

“ The company ” means The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited :

The expressions “ the Auckland Sugar District ”, “ the Southern Sugar District ”, and “ the Sugar Free Delivery Area ” mean respectively the districts and area recognized by the sugar trade at the time of the coming into force of this Order as the Auckland Sugar District, the Southern Sugar District, and the Sugar Free Delivery Area, as the case may be :

“ Manufacturer ” means any person who, under the authority of a licence or permit from the Rationing Controller, purchases sugar for use in manufacturing processes from the company under contract, from a distributor or from a retail storekeeper :

“ Distributor ” means a duly recognized agent of the company who acquires sugar for resale to retail storekeepers or to bakers, sugar boilers, or other persons using sugar in manufacturing processes, and, with respect to sales of sugar made direct by the company to retail storekeepers or to bakers, sugar boilers, and other persons using sugar in manufacturing processes, includes the company :

“ Direct customer ” means any person other than a manufacturer or distributor who purchases sugar direct from the company :

“ Retail storekeeper ” means a person licensed as a retailer of sugar under the provisions of the Rationing Emergency Regulations 1942.

(2) References in this Order to metropolitan areas shall be deemed to be references to the metropolitan areas described in the Fifth Schedule hereto.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) This Order applies only with respect to sugar manufactured by the company and sold for consumption in New Zealand.

(2) The maximum prices fixed by this Order are fixed with respect to sugar sold in packages in accordance with the customary usage in the sugar trade, and no charge shall be made by the company or any distributor for any containers other than drums or kegs used in respect of invert sugar.

• Gazette, 25th September; 1947, Vol. III, page 1393.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF SUGAR TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Company’s Prices

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum net price that may be charged or received by the company for any sugar to which this Order applies—

(a) That is sold to a manufacturer or a distributor shall be the appropriate price fixed in the First Schedule hereto :

(b) That is sold to a direct customer shall be the appropriate price fixed in the Third Schedule hereto.

(2) Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subclause, the maximum prices fixed by the last preceding subclause are fixed subject to delivery terms as follows :—

(a) Where the sugar is for delivery within the Sugar Free Delivery Area : Free of all transport charges :

(b) Where the sugar is for delivery within the Auckland Sugar District but beyond the Sugar Free Delivery Area : F.o.r. Auckland or f.o.b. Auckland, as the case may require :

(c) Where the sugar is for delivery in the Southern Sugar District : F.o.b. Auckland.

(3) The delivery terms set out in the last preceding subclause apply only with respect to sugar delivered in a lot of a half-ton or more, and to sugar, irrespective of the weight thereof, that is delivered together with golden syrup or treacle and the total weight of the consignment of sugar and golden syrup or treacle is a half-ton or more.

Distributors’ Prices

6. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum net price that may be charged by a distributor for any sugar to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price fixed in the Second Schedule hereto.

(2) The maximum prices fixed by the last preceding subclause are fixed with respect to sugar sold in lots of a half-ton or more, and to sugar, irrespective of its weight, sold together with golden syrup or treacle where the total weight of the consignment of sugar and golden syrup or treacle is a half-ton or more.

(3) (a) Where the sugar is for delivery within the Sugar Free Delivery Area the maximum prices fixed by this clause are fixed free of all transport charges.

(b) Where the sugar is for delivery otherwise than within the Sugar Free Delivery Area the maximum prices fixed by this clause are fixed on the basis of f.o.r. or f.o.b. Auckland, as the case may require, and may be increased by the appropriate proportion of such of the following charges as have been actually incurred by the distributor in respect of the sugar concerned :—

(i) Sea-freight charges :

(ii) Marine and war-risk insurance charges computed as if the value of the sugar was the price charged by the distributor in accordance with this Order :

(iii) Wharfage charges :

(iv) Harbour Board improvement rate charges :

(v) Rail charges :

(vi) Cartage charges :