Decisions of the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936

Bureau of Industry, C.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the authority conferred on the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936, the following decisions have been made in respect of applications for licences.

J. D. KERR, Secretary.

Price Order No. 951 (Amendment No. 2 of Price Order No. 921)

(Retail Groceries and Other Goods)

Pursuant to 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. 951, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 921* (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 26th day of November, 1948.

3. Every approval of an authorized retail selling-price in force under the Control of Prices Act, 1947, on the date of the coming into force of the principal Order and relating to any goods to which the principal Order applies is hereby revoked.

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

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

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

• Gazette, 26th August, 1948, Vol. II, page 1074.

Price Order No. 952 (Sugar)

Pursuant to 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. (1) This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 952.
   (2) This Order shall come into force--
   (a) With respect to the prices to be charged by the company and by distributors: On the 26th day of November, 1948;
   (b) With respect to the prices to be charged by retail storekeepers: On the 10th day of December, 1948.

2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 868, 871†, and 885‡ shall, so far as they apply to the prices to be charged by the company or by distributors, continue in force until the 25th day of November, 1948, and shall then be deemed to be revoked in their application to any such prices.
   (2) Except as otherwise provided by the last preceding sub-clause, Price Orders Nos. 868, 871†, and 885‡ shall continue in force until the 9th day of December, 1948, and shall then be deemed to be wholly 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.

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, or the Sugar Free Delivery Area, as the case may be;
   "Manufacturer" means any person who 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;
   (2) References in this Order to metropolitan areas shall be deemed to be references to the metropolitan areas described in the Fifth Schedule hereto.

• Gazette, 9th April, 1948, Vol. I, page 387.
  † Gazette, 15th April, 1948, Vol. I, page 408.
  ‡ Gazette, 3rd June, 1948, Vol. II, page 652.