Price Order No. 971 (Amending Price Order No. 128) (Eggs)

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. 971, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 128* (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).
2. This Order shall come into force on the 7th day of February, 1949.
3. The Second and Third Schedules to the principal Order, as set out in Price Order No. 967†, are hereby revoked, and the following Schedules substituted therefor respectively:

“SECOND SCHEDULE

“MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES (PER DOZEN) FOR EGGS SOLD FOR RESALE IN ANY MARKETING AREA WITHIN AN EGG-PRICE AREA

“THIRD SCHEDULE

“MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES (PER DOZEN) FOR EGGS SOLD FOR RESALE ELSEWHERE THAN IN A MARKETING AREA

4. (1) Price Order No. 967† 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.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of January, 1949.
The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—
[L.S.]

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

• Gazette, 12th March, 1943, Vol. I, page 314.
  † Gazette, 20th January, 1949, Vol. I, page 63.

Price Order No. 972 (Beeswax)

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. 972, and shall come into force on the 7th day of February, 1949.
2. (1) Price Order No. 145* 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. In this Order—
   “Apiary” means a place where bees are kept by any beekeeper;
   “Beekeeper” includes every person who keeps bees (whether on land occupied by him or not).

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies to all beeswax produced in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF BEESWAX TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

5. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any beekeeper for any beeswax to which this Order applies shall be 3s. 6d. per pound free-on-rail at the railway-station that is nearest or most convenient of access to the apiary on which the beeswax was produced.
   (2) Where any such beeswax is delivered by a beekeeper otherwise than free-on-rail as aforesaid, the maximum price shall be 3s. 6d. per pound, increased by a proportionate part of the amount of the charges (if any) incurred by him in effecting delivery to the purchaser, and then reduced by a proportionate part of the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the beeswax free-on-rail as aforesaid.
6. The maximum price that may be charged or received by any person other than a beekeeper for any beeswax to which this Order applies shall be the price actually paid or payable by him for that beeswax, increased by a proportionate part of the amount of any charges actually and reasonably incurred by him in effecting delivery to the purchaser.
7. The amount added in respect of freight shall not in any case exceed the amount that would have been incurred if delivery had been effected by a common carrier at current freight charges.
8. Subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any person concerned, may authorize special maximum prices in respect of any beeswax to which this Order applies where for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by that person. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of beeswax or may relate generally to all beeswax sold by that person while the approval remains in force.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of January, 1949.
The Seal of the Price Tribunal was hereto affixed in the presence of—
[L.S.]

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

The Standards Act, 1941.—Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

NOTICE is hereby given that on 27th January, 1949, the undermentioned specifications were declared to be standard specifications by the Minister of Industries and Commerce pursuant to section 8 of the Standards Act, 1941:

Copies may be obtained from the New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay, Wellington C. 1, at the prices indicated above.

L. J. McDONALD, Executive Officer.