AUG. 26]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Price Order No. 924 (Amending Price Order No. 665) (Apples and Pears)

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 amending Price Order:

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 924, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 665* (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 1948.

3. The principal Order, as amended by Price Order No. 825†, is hereby further amended by revoking the Third and Fourth Schedules thereto, and substituting the following Schedules:

THIRD SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF APPLES

FOURTH SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF PEARS

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of August, 1948.

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

W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.

P. N. HOLLOWAY, Member.

• Gazette, 20th March, 1947, Vol. I, page 355.

† Gazette, 8th January, 1948, Vol. I, page 25

Price Order No. 925 (Maize Sold for Seed for Green-feed Purposes)

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF MAIZE TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

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. 925, and shall come into force on the 26th day of August, 1948.

2. (1) Price Order No. 737* is hereby revoked in its application to maize to which this Order applies.

(2) The partial 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—

“Grower”, in relation to maize, means a person engaged in the business of growing maize for sale;

“Grower’s station”, in relation to any grower, means the railway-station that is nearest or most convenient of access to the grower’s premises;

The expression “f.o.b.s.e.” means “free on board, sacks or other containers extra”, and the expression “f.o.r.s.e.” means “free on rail, sacks or other containers extra”.

(2) The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding that any maize to which the Order applies is sold otherwise than by weight.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies only to maize of the following varieties:

Motiti Island, Marigold, 90 Day, Silver Queen, and Early Butler when sold by a grower exclusively for seed for the purposes of producing maize for green feed.

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any grower for any maize to which this Order applies when sold to any person otherwise than a wholesaler shall be—

Per Bushel.

For maize sold for delivery during the month of July in any year

For maize sold for delivery during the month of August in any year

For maize sold for delivery during the month of September in any year

For maize sold for delivery during the month of October in any year

7 6

7 8

7 9

7 10

(2) The maximum prices fixed as aforesaid are fixed as for—

(a) Delivery f.o.b.s.e. (in the case of maize delivered for shipment at any of the ports of Gisborne, Opotiki, Whakatane, and Tauranga); and

(b) Delivery f.o.r.s.e. the growers’ station (with respect to all other sales).

(3) Where any maize to which this Order applies is delivered by the grower elsewhere than at one of the aforesaid ports, or elsewhere than at the grower’s station, the maximum price that may be charged by the grower shall be the appropriate price in terms of subclause (1) hereof increased by the amount of the charges (if any) incurred by the grower in effecting delivery and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the maize f.o.b.s.e. such one of the aforesaid ports, or f.o.r.s.e. such railway-station as would have been appropriate in the circumstances of the case.

(4) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any grower for any maize sold by him to a wholesaler shall be the price in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause with respect to other sales reduced by an amount equal to 5 per cent. of the said price.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of August, 1948.

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

W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.

P. N. HOLLOWAY, Member.

• Gazette, 10th July, 1947, Vol. II, page 861.