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APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies with respect to the stationery specified
   in the First Schedule hereto whether imported into New Zealand,
   or manufactured in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order the maximum
   price that may be charged by a wholesaler for any goods to which
   this Order applies when sold to a retailer shall not exceed the sum
   of the following amounts :

(a) The landed cost or the factory selling-price (as the case
may be) of the goods.

(b) The maximum percentage of the landed cost or the factory
selling-price (as the case may be) specified in the second
column of the First Schedule hereto in relation to the
goods :

(c) The appropriate proportion of any transport costs incurred
by the wholesaler in obtaining delivery of the goods
into his premises :

Provided that transport costs calculated under this
paragraph shall not exceed the amount that would have
been incurred had the goods been transported by the
holder of a goods-service licence under the Transport
Licensing Act, 1931, at authorized rates.

(2) Where at the date of the coming into force of this Order
discount was customarily allowed with respect to any goods to which
this Order applies the maximum prices of those goods fixed by the
foregoing provisions of this Order shall be reduced by a discount
of 2½ per cent. where payment is made on or before the 20th day
of the calendar month next following the calendar month in which
delivery is made to the retailer.

FIRST SCHEDULE

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Maximum
Percentage
of Landed
Cost or
Factory
Selling-price
Allowed on
Sales by
Wholesalers.

Maximum
Percentage
of Prevailing
Wholesale
Price Allowed
on Sales by
Retailers.

Per Cent.

Per Cent.

Group I. A : School Stationery (other
than stabilized lines or books where the
retail selling-price is printed on the
book)

Books—
Drawing ..
Exercise (including all school, college,
and university requirements for all
subjects)
Music manuscript (limp covers)
Chalks and crayons, school ..
Drawing folios and refills
Erasers, sixty and over to the pound
Journal covers
Pen-holders, school
Rulers, school, plain, unvarnished, and
locally manufactured
Water colours, students', in cakes
Writing pads, school
Other goods substantially the same as
goods in this Group

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Group I. B
Compasses ..
Dividers
Drawing sets, mathematical
Dusters, blackboard
Inkwells, school desk type
Pencils (home cost lls. gross or under)
Pens, fine writer, medium writer, and
school G
Protractors, up to 4 ins.
Set squares, up to 5 ins.
Slide rule, students'
Water colours, students', in tubes and pans
Water colours, brushes, students'
Other goods substantially the same as
goods in this Group

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FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

6. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order the maximum
   price that may be charged by a retailer for any goods to which this
   Order applies shall not exceed the sum of the following amounts :

(a) The prevailing wholesale price of the goods to the retailer :

(b) Any sales tax payable by the retailer in respect of the goods :

(c) The appropriate maximum percentage of the sum of the
amounts specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) hereof,
set out in the third column of the First Schedule hereto
in respect of the goods :

(d) The appropriate proportion of transport costs incurred by
the retailer in respect of the goods :

Provided that transport costs calculated under this
paragraph shall not exceed the amount that would have
been incurred had the goods been transported by the
holder of a goods-service licence under the Transport
Licensing Act, 1931, at authorized rates.

(2) If in respect of any lot of goods the maximum price calculated
in accordance with this clause is not an exact number of pence or
half-pence the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the
next upward halfpenny.

(3) If any goods to which this Order applies are imported by
a retailer and sold by him as a retailer the prevailing wholesale
price of the goods shall be deemed to be the price computed in
accordance with clause 5 of this Order at which the goods would
have been sold if the person importing the goods was a wholesaler
selling to a retailer.

GENERAL

7. Every person, whether a wholesaler or a retailer, who imports
   any goods to which this Order applies, shall, on receipt of the goods,
   forward to the Director of Price Control in such manner as he
   requires a return in respect of the goods in the form of the Second
   Schedule hereto :

Provided that where an importer has furnished a return under
this clause in respect of any goods he shall not be obliged, unless
specially requested to do so by the Director, to furnish a return in
respect of other goods of the same kind unless—

(a) The landed cost of the other goods is less than the landed
cost of the goods to which the return already made
relates ; or

(b) The landed cost of the other goods is more than the landed
cost of the goods to which the return already made
relates and the importer proposed to charge more for
such goods as aforesaid.

8. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of
   this Order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit,
   the Tribunal, on application by any wholesaler or retailer, may
   authorize special maximum wholesale or retail prices in respect of
   any goods to which this Order applies where special circumstances
   exist or for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise)
   are incurred by the wholesaler or retailer. Any authority given by
   the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified
   lot or consignment of goods or may relate generally to all goods
   to which this Order applies sold by the wholesaler or retailer while
   the approval remains in force,

Group II. A
Account-
Forms, books of
Sales paper
Adding machine rolls
Autograph albums
Bill heads, cut and packed or flat
Books—
Account, quarter-bound
Account, half-bound
Analysis
Bank deposit
Cash receipt
Deed
Delivery
Guard
Letter
Manifold
Memo
Recipe
Reporters' note
Shop or counter
Time and wages
Bridge blocks, plain
Cards—
Index
Ledger
Visiting and business
Confetti
Cardboard cylinders, postal
Desk calendars
Envelopes, all sizes
News wrappers
Paper, ruled
Photo albums
Promissory notes
Scribbling blocks
Sealing tape, gummed kraft
Serviettes, plain
Stamp albums
Streamers
Tags, tie on
Tickets—
Admission
Auctioneers’ lot
Check
Writing pads, n.e.i.
Other goods substantially the same as
goods in this Group

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