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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 76

Price Order No. 1200 (Malting Barley)

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. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1200, and shall come into force on the 14th day of December, 1950.

2. (1) Price Order No. 1121* is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Order shall not effect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.

3. In this Order—
   “Grower”, in relation to barley, means a person engaged in the business of growing barley for sale :
   “Grower’s station”, in relation to any grower, means the railway-station that is nearest or most convenient of access to the grower’s premises :
   “Preferred varieties”, in relation to barley, means barley of any of the following varieties: Spratt Archer, Golden Archer, Plumage Archer, Goldthorpe Spratt, or Kinver Chevalier :
   “Reseller”, in relation to barley to which this Order applies, means any person (other than a grower) who sells any such barley :
   The expression “f.o.r.s.e.” means “free on rail, sacks extra.”

4. The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding that any barley to which this Order is applicable is sold otherwise than by weight.

5. In computing the weight of any barley to which this Order applies the weight of the sacks in which the barley is contained shall be excluded.

6. The maximum price that may be charged for the sacks in which any barley to which this Order applies is contained shall be: for 48 in. by 26½ in. sacks, 3s. 1d. each; for 46 in. by 23 in. sacks, 2s. 8d. each.

7. The several prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction as well as to other sales.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

8. (1) This Order applies only with respect to barley sold for malting purposes.
   (2) The provisions of this Order fixing growers’ prices shall apply only with respect to barley grown from seed sown on or after the 1st day of March, 1950.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF BARLEY TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Growers’ Prices

9. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any grower for any barley to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows :—

(2) Where any barley is delivered by a grower otherwise than f.o.r.s.e. the grower’s station, the price that may be charged by the grower shall be the appropriate price in terms of the foregoing provisions of this clause, increased by the amount of the charges (if any) incurred by the grower in effecting delivery and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the barley f.o.r.s.e. the grower’s station.

Resellers’ Prices

10. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any reseller for any barley to which this Order applies shall not exceed the sum or the following amounts :—
    (a) The price actually paid or payable to the grower by the same or any other reseller :
    (b) Any transport, insurance, storage, or other charges actually and reasonably incurred by the same or any other reseller :
    (c) An amount not exceeding 2d. per bushel.

(2) Every reseller who sells any barley to which this Order applies shall state on the invoice relating to such sale the words “malting barley” and the name of the variety of the barley.

11. 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 grower or reseller, may authorize special maximum prices in respect of any malting barley to which this Order applies where special circumstances exist, or for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the grower or reseller. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of malting barley or may relate generally to all malting barley to which this Order applies sold by the grower or reseller while the approval remains in force.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1950.

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

[L.S.]

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

• Gazette, 2nd February, 1950, Vol. I, page 114.

Price Order No. 1201 (Honey)

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 :—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1201, and shall come into force on the 14th day of December, 1950.

2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 927,* 984†, and 1011‡ are hereby revoked.
   (2) 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.

• Gazette, 2nd September, 1948, Vol, III, page 1116.
  † Gazette, 24th March, 1949, Vol. I, page 763.
  ‡ Gazette, 2nd June, 1949, Vol. II, page 1302.

3. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “The said Act” means the Control of Prices Act, 1947 :
   “Honey in the comb” means either—
   (a) Honey sold in standard sections; or
   (b) Cut comb honey—that is, honey containing no visible traces of stored pollen or other impurities stored in clean new combs that have not been used at any time for brood-rearing purposes :
   “Packer” means a wholesaler who sells to another wholesaler honey packed in retail containers, and includes a producer who sells to a wholesaler honey packed in retail containers as aforesaid :
   “Producer” means a beekeeper whose apiary is registered pursuant to the Apiaries Act, 1927 :
   “Retail container” means a jar, carton, or tin supplied by the vendor of the honey and containing not more than 10 lb. net weight of honey :
   “Standard case” means a case or other outer container containing in the aggregate approximately 60 lb. of honey packed in retail containers :