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:-

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 881, and shall come into force on the 21st day of May, 1948.
2. (1) Price Order No. 784* is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Price 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 only with respect to sales by way of retail of 42 in. woolpacks.

Fixing Maximum Retail Price of Woolpacks To Which This Order Applies

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any woolpacks to which this Order applies shall be :-
   (a) For woolpacks sold by a retailer carrying on business at one of the ports of Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, or Dunedin: 12s. 1½d. each.
   (b) For woolpacks sold by a retailer carrying on business elsewhere than at one of the ports mentioned in paragraph (a) hereof: 12s. 1½d. cash, increased by a proportionate part of the freight charges incurred by the retailer in obtaining delivery from such one of the said ports as is nearest or most convenient of access to his store:
   Provided that where any woolpacks to which this paragraph applies are obtained by the retailer elsewhere than from such one of the said ports as is the nearest or most convenient of access to his store, the increase authorized by this paragraph shall not exceed a proportionate part of the freight charges that would have been incurred by the retailer if the woolpacks had been obtained from that port and if delivery had been effected at current freight rates.
   (2) The maximum prices fixed by the preceding subclause are fixed as for delivery f.o.r. or f.o.b. as the case may require.
   (3) Where any woolpacks are delivered by a retailer otherwise than f.o.r. or f.o.b. the price that may be charged by the retailer shall be the proportionate price in terms of the foregoing provisions of this clause increased by the amount of the freight charges incurred by him in effecting delivery and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the woolpacks f.o.r. or f.o.b. as aforesaid.
   (4) Any freight charges imposed by a retailer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this clause shall be shown separately on the appropriate invoice.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of May, 1948.

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

W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
P. N. HOLLOWAY, Member.

• Gazette, 13th November, 1947, Vol. III, page 1773.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES

Land in Gisborne Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease

District Lands and Survey Office,
Gisborne, 17th May, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, 9th June, 1948.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on Friday, 11th June, 1948, at 10 o'clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence of their farming experience and financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year's rent, broken-period rent, and lease fee.

SCHEDULE

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND Wairoa County.-Taramarama Survey District

(Exempt from payment of rent for five years.*)

SECTION 6, Block XIV : Area, 1,066 acres 1 rood 20 perches. Capital value, £705 ; half-yearly rent, £17 12s. 6d.

Weighted with £1,975 for improvements, comprising cottage (in poor condition), wood-shed, garage, implement-shed, sheep-yards, 270 chains subdivisional, 292 chains boundary fencing, clearing, and grassing. Fencing is in poor order and requires extensive repairs. This sum is payable in cash, or may be repaid by the successful applicant giving a first mortgage to the estate of the former lessee for £450 and contracting to repay to the Crown the sum of £1,525 by equal half-yearly instalments over a period of 361 years.

• Exemption from payment of rent is conditional on permanent improvements to the value of £50 being effected annually during the concession period in addition to the usual improvements required by the Land Act, 1924.

This is a grazing proposition situated on the Ruapapa Road about nineteen miles from Wairoa Butter-factory and Saleyards and four miles from Kora Kora School. Access is by means of cable and cage approximately 100 yards across the Waiau River or four miles from Wairoa-Waikaremoana Road. There is no direct road access, and stock has to be driven across the river at periods of low-river level. Soil is light to medium loam on pumiceous loam and clay; watered by permanent creeks and springs. Approximately 500 acres fairly good land, balance poor with severe scrub reversion; about 90 acres light terrace flats, balance easy to fairly steep hill country broken by deep gullies. Altitude up to 1,000 ft. Approximately 400 acres originally cleared and grassed, but now reverted to scrub. About 250 acres back portion in native and fair English grasses. Applications will be received from both civilians and ex-servicemen, but preference will be given to the latter.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

E. P. WAKELIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/161/3, D.O. R.L. 284.)

Land in Canterbury Land District forfeited:

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 17th May, 1948.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Canterbury Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy.--Supreme Court

CHARLES ALFRED CRAFT, of Te Araroa, formerly Taxi-driver, but now a Barman, was adjudged bankrupt on the 13th day of May, 1948. Creditors' meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Gisborne, on Wednesday, 26th May, 1948, at 3 p.m.

B. D. LEAHY, Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.--In the Supreme Court of New Zealand

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM HENRY McNAMARA, of New Plymouth, Sawmill Hand, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Friday, the 21st day of May, 1948, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 13th day of May, 1948.

L. W. LOUISSON, Official Assignee.