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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 28

Price Order No. 1001 (Imported Goods—Hardware)

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:—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1001.

2. This Order shall come into force on the 23rd day of May, 1949.

3. (1) This Order applies with respect to any goods of the kind specified in the Schedule hereto that have been or may hereafter be imported into New Zealand and in respect of which—
   (a) Price Order No. 932* (as from time to time amended) relates; or
   (b) An approval under section 16 of the Control of Prices Act, 1947, authorizing a selling-price has been given and is for the time being in force.

   (2) Where the said Price Order provides that the selling-price of any goods to which this Order applies shall be calculated by the addition of a specified amount or a specified percentage (either with or without any other amount) to the cost price of the goods, that cost price shall be calculated as if New Zealand currency had at all times been at parity with sterling, and the said Price Order shall be read and construed accordingly.

   (3) Where the importer of any goods to which this Order applies and in respect of which an approval under section 16 of the Control of Prices Act, 1947, authorizing a selling-price has been given and is for the time being in force, has paid or is liable to pay for the goods at a price calculated on the basis of the rate of exchange between New Zealand currency and sterling ruling immediately prior to the 18th day of August, 1948, the price authorized by any such approval relating to any such goods shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount by which the cost of those goods to the importer would have been reduced if New Zealand currency had at all times been at parity with sterling, and every such approval shall be read and construed accordingly.

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SCHEDULE

KIND OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Builders’ and Plumbers’ Hardware

Aluminium corrugated sheets, including ridging, spouting, downpipe, and aluminium nails, washers, and clouts for fixing same.

Basins, lavatory, all kinds of earthenware and porcelain enamelled cast iron.

Baths, all kinds of porcelain enamelled cast iron, and enamelled pressed steel.

Bells, door, all kinds.

Bends, flush pipe.

Boilers, all kinds, solid fuel, for domestic water-heating.

Bolts, tower and pad, japanned and galvanized.

Bonding for brickwork and plastering, including expanded metal lathing.

Brackets, japanned shelf.

Catches, ball, gripper, and elbow.

Catches, cupboard, all surface types.

Clips, flush pipe.

Clouts, galvanized and bright.

Cord, cotton sash, fanlight, and glacie, all sizes.

Fasteners, casement, art black and A.C. or C.B. and R. on iron.

Felt, roofing, including bituminous roofing one, two, and three ply.

Floats for ballcocks, complete balls or half shells.

Glasspaper or sandpaper in sheets.

Glue, animal, exclusive of marine glues.

Hinges, iron or mild steel tee and strap, japanned, self colour, and galvanized.

Hooks, hat and coat and wardrobe, all kinds, exclusive of chromium or nickel-plated on brass.

Latches, gate, all kinds.

Lock sets, mortice, with furniture A.C. or C.B. and R. on steel.

Nails, all kinds of spikes, ewbanks, and rail dogs, bright, black, or galvanized.

Pans, earthenware water-closet all types, exclusive of special nautical closets.

Pipe, cast iron soil, including fittings for same.

Rails, wardrobe and curtain, all kinds, including fittings for same.

Rod, expanding curtain, including hooks and eyes for same.

Rollers, sash.

Scrim, all grades.

Seats, closet, all kinds, exclusive of nautical.

Sinks, all kinds, including sink-bench tops complete.

Slides, furniture.

Stays, casement, all kinds of pin types, art black, A.C. or C.B. and R. on iron.

Stoves, all solid fuel cooking stoves, exclusive of heat-storage cookers.

Stoves, all oil fuel cooking stoves, exclusive of pressure stoves.

Tacks, all kinds of tinned or blued.

Taps, brass, all kinds, for high or low pressure water-delivery.

Turns, cupboard.

Zinc sheet, perforated.

Tools

Axes, all half and three-quarter sizes, including axe pattern hatchets.

Bits, all kinds of brace auger, including gimlet bits.

Blades, all kinds of scythe.

Braces, woodworker’s hand, exclusive of ball-bearing and ratchet braces.

Brushes, steelmoulders and scratch.

Chisels, handled woodworkers, all kinds of firmer, bevelled edge, and register.

Drags, drain and manure.

Drills, all kinds of twist drills bits for metal, including wood drills, but exclusive of high-speed quality, and taper-shank drills.

Files, all kinds of saw files, including mill or millsaw.

Forks and trowels for hand weeding.

Forks, all four and five prong or tyne, agricultural hand forks, border, digging, spading, and potato.

Forks, hay and manure, all kinds.

Hammers, all kinds of handled hand driving hammers.

Handles, all kinds of adze, eye, hammer, slasher, and coal-miners pick.

Hoes, garden weeding and cultivating, all hand types, handled or otherwise.

Hooks, reap, all kinds.

Knives, hay, all kinds.

Lamps, miners, all kinds.

Lamps, blowlamps, painters, and plumbers, all kinds of hand types.

Levels, all kinds of wooden body hand levels.

Nail sets or punches.

Pencils, carpenters.

Picks, all sizes of double point, chisel and point, and coal-miners.

Planes, all kinds of wooden body hand planes.

Rakes, all kinds of hand garden, handled or otherwise.

Rules, all kinds of folding boxwood.

Saws, all kinds of panel, cross cut, and rip hand saws.

Shovels, all kinds of long and short handled, including miners.

Shears, hedge, all kinds short handled.

Slashers, all kinds.

Squares, woodworkers, all kinds of try or try and mitre.

Syringes, all kinds for use on live-stock.

Tapes, measuring, all encased kinds over 25 ft., excluding spare tapes.

Trowels, bricklayers, plasterers, pointing, and gauging, all kinds.

Vices, all kinds of woodworkers, including engineers bench 2½ in. jaw and over.

Wedges, steel, all kinds of splitting.

Domestic Hardware (Including Cutlery)

Bucket, galvanized.

Culinary utensils: All kinds of gravy and food strainers, graters, mincers, potato mashers, peelers, cooking forks, cooking and mixing spoons, whippers and whisks, slices and turners, asbestos stovemats, egg beaters and whisks, and soap-savers.

Cutlery—
Knives, table and dessert, all kinds.
Spoons and forks, all kinds for table use, A quality and under.

Clocks: Ordinary kitchen, alarm types.

Cookers: All makes and kinds of pressure-cooking saucepans.

Flasks: Vacuum, including refills for same.

Glasses: Lamp, all kinds.

Globes: Lantern, all kinds.

Hollow-ware: Aluminium and enamelled ware, all kinds of: Kettle, stewpans, pie dishes, jugs (excluding ewers), tea-pots, mugs, chambers, and retinned frypans and bake dishes, exclusive of cast iron and “Anglo” heavy stamped steel 800 series or similar.

Jugs: Electric, all domestic types.

Kettles: Electric, all domestic types.

Lamps: Illuminating, all oil-fuel, wick, and mantle types.

Lanterns: Illuminating, all oil-fuel, wick, and mantle types.

Lines: Woven wire, clothes, drying.

Scales and balances: All types for domestic use.

Shovels: All kinds of hand fire.

Toasters: Electric, all kinds, domestic, two slice single-element types.

Wringers: Clothes, all hand-operated makes and kinds, including extra rollers for same.

General Hardware (Including Ships Chandlery)

Anchors, common pick pattern, all sizes under 30 lb. weight, each.

Asbestos clothing, all kinds, including gloves and gauntlets.

Bark, wattle, including cutch.

Bolts and nuts, black, exclusive of steel high-tensile.

Bolts and nuts, galvanized, gutter.

Chains, plough, leader and harness, all kinds.

Cork slabs for insulating purposes.

Cork netting floats, bored and unbored.

Corks for bottles or jars, all kinds.

Emery cloth in sheets.

Fire extinguishers of all kinds.

Gauze, all kinds of fly screen.

Grease cups, all kinds of pressed steel, with hand-operated screw down tops.

Hames, leader and van, all kinds.

Heaters, radiation, all oil-fuel types.

Hooks, for hand-line fishing, all kinds.

Hose, all kinds of garden water-delivery hoses ½ in. and ¾ in. diameter.

Lines, cotton, for hand-line fishing, all sizes under 5 lb. weight, per dozen.

Mowers, all types of hand driven lawn-mowers.

Nets, all kinds of set fishing-nets other than seine and trawl.

Oars, all kinds, up to and including 8 ft.

Packing, all kinds of cork jointings in sheets, plain, and laminated.

Pins, steel split, cottor, all sizes.

Pitch, all size packages.

Plummer blocks, all kinds, exclusive of ring-oiler types.

Pumps, hand operated rotary and semi-rotary.

Raddle, all colours.

Rams, hydraulic.

Rivets, mild steel, all kinds, for metal working.

Screws, steel metal threads, including pressed nuts for same.

Gazette, 16th September, 1948, Vol. III, page 1181.

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