1938
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 68

Price Order No. 1194 (Australian, South African, and Jamaican Oranges, and Jamaican Grapefruit)

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, hereby makes the following Price Order :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1194, and shall come into force on the 4th day of November, 1950.
   (2) Price Orders Nos. 928,* 957†, 1119‡, and 1124§ are hereby 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.

2. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “ The said Act ” means the Control of Prices Act, 1947 :
   “ Case ” means a case of the type and specification used in the ordinary course of trade for packing Australian, South African, or Jamaican (as the case may be) oranges and grapefruit.

(2) References in this Order to metropolitan areas are references to the metropolitan areas described in the Schedule hereto.
(3) Terms and expressions defined in the said Act, when used in this Order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by that Act.

3. The maximum prices fixed by this Order include the prices of the cases or other containers in which the oranges or grapefruit are delivered to the purchaser.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies with respect to oranges grown in Australia, South Africa, or Jamaica, and to grapefruit grown in Jamaica and sold in New Zealand.

5. The maximum prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction, as well as to other sales.

6. (1) The provisions of this Order as to maximum wholesale prices shall apply notwithstanding that any oranges or grapefruit to which this Order applies are sold otherwise than in cases, and the provisions of this Order as to maximum retail prices shall apply notwithstanding that any such oranges or grapefruit are sold otherwise than by weight.
   (2) If any lot of oranges or grapefruit to which this Order applies is sold by a wholesaler otherwise than in cases, the maximum price of the lot shall bear the same proportion to the maximum price of a case-lot as the net weight of the lot bears to the customary net weight of a case.

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler for any oranges or grapefruit to which this Order applies shall be—
   (a) When sold to a retailer carrying on business in any of the metropolitan areas of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin, or in any of the cities or boroughs of Whangarei, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Westport, Timaru, Oamaru, Gore, or Invercargill—
   Australian oranges, per case : 30s. 6d.
   South African oranges, per case : 43s. 6d.
   Jamaican oranges, per case : 50s. 6d.
   Jamaican grapefruit, per case : 43s. 6d.
   (b) When sold to a retailer carrying on business elsewhere—
   Australian oranges, per case : 29s. 6d.
   South African oranges, per case : 40s. 6d.
   Jamaican oranges, per case : 47s. 6d.
   Jamaican grapefruit, per case : 40s. 6d.

(2) The wholesale prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery at the wholesaler’s store or other premises occupied by the wholesaler.
(3) Where delivery is effected by a wholesaler elsewhere than at premises occupied by him, he may add to the appropriate price fixed by this Order the reasonable cost of delivery, not exceeding in any case the cost that would have been incurred by him if delivery had been effected by a common carrier at current freight rates.

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum retail price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any oranges or grapefruit to which this Order applies shall be computed at the rate of 11d. per pound.
   (2) If in respect of any lot of such oranges or grapefruit sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of 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.

9. Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale in any shop any oranges or grapefruit to which this Order applies shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the oranges or grapefruit to which it relates as to be obviously descriptive thereof a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated in legible and prominent characters the following particulars :—
   (a) The retail price per pound of the oranges or grapefruit (as the case may be).
   (b) The word “ Australian,” “ South African,” or “ Jamaican” (as the case may be).

• Gazette, 2nd September, 1948, Vol. III, page 1116.
  † Gazette, 23rd December, 1948, Vol. III, page 1602.
  ‡ Gazette, 2nd February, 1950, Vol. I, page 114.
  § Gazette, 9th February, 1950, Vol. I, page 162.

SCHEDULE
DEFINITION OF METROPOLITAN AREAS

Dated this 2nd day of November, 1950.

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

[L.S.]

P. B. MARSHALL, President.
G. LAURENCE, Member.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that on the dates stated in the first column hereunder, 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 :—

Applications for copies should be made to the New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 3049), Wellington C. 1.

R. T. WRIGHT,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.