Mar. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 423

Price Order No. 1226 (Cocoa)

Pursuant to 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. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1226, and shall come into force on the 22nd day of March, 1951.
2. (1) Price Order No. 1164* 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.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies with respect to all cocoa sold in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF COCOA TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Wholesalers’ Prices

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler (which term in this order shall be deemed to include a manufacturer selling to a retailer) for any cocoa to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set out in the Schedule hereto.
   (2) The prices fixed by the foregoing provisions of this clause are fixed subject to the continuance of the practice in the cocoa trade with respect to cash and other discounts and with respect to freight arrangements existing immediately prior to the coming into force of this Order.

Retailers’ Prices

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any cocoa to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set out in the Schedule hereto.
   (2) If in respect of any lot of cocoa 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 halfpence, the maximum price of the lot shall be calculated to the next upward halfpenny.

PROVISION FOR SPECIAL PRICES

6. 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 cocoa 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 cocoa or may relate generally to all cocoa to which this Order applies sold by the wholesaler or retailer while the approval remains in force.

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SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF COCOA TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1951.

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

[L.S.] P. B. MARSHALL, President.
G. LAURENCE, Member.

Gazette, 15th June, 1950, Vol. II, page 780.

Notice to Mariners No. 14 of 1951

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th March, 1951.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—PORT NICHOLSON.
Live-shell Practice

PARTICULARS of live-shell practice which has been arranged are given hereunder :—

(a) Date of shoot : 31st March, 1951.
(b) Duration : 0900–1600 hrs.
(c) Place : Palmer Head, Wellington.
(d) Danger height : 30,000 ft.
(e) Danger area bounded by—
Lat., 41° 20′ 40″ S. ; Long., 174° 49′ 15″ E.
Lat., 41° 24′ 00″ S. ; Long., 174° 35′ 35″ E.
Lat., 41° 30′ 25″ S. ; Long., 174° 43′ 35″ E.
Lat., 41° 30′ 40″ S. ; Long., 174° 55′ 20″ E.

Authority : Army Department, 2nd March, 1951.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

(M. 25/1400.)

Officiating Ministers for 1951.—Notice No. 9

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1951.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Congregational Independents
Pastor James Smith.

Friend to Sailors’ Mission
Pastor Joseph Elliott Lea.

Church of the Lord Jesus Christ
Mr. Dewey Reathel Burkett.
Mr. Allan Sidney Thrift.

The Salvation Army
Lieutenant Gordon Albert Brinsdon.
Lieutenant Raymond Henry Ford.
Lieutenant Basil Kenneth Gosper.
Lieutenant Ivan Thomas Hay.
Captain Terence Joseph Higgins.
Lieutenant Rae Elmo Hildreth.
Lieutenant Laurence Padman.
Lieutenant Roy Gordon Rodgers.

Brethren
Mr. Alexander Gordon Bain.

P. H. WYLDE, Registrar-General.

Notice to Make Returns of Land Under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923

EVERY person and company, whether a taxpayer or not, being the owner of land in New Zealand within the meaning of the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923, and regulations thereunder, is hereby required to furnish on or before the 10th April, 1951, in the prescribed form, a return of such land as at 12 noon on 31st March, 1951, where the total unimproved value, as assessed under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925, exceeds £1,000.

Returns are to be addressed to the Superintendent of the Branch Office of the Land and Income Tax Department where the taxpayer’s records are filed.

Any person failing to furnish a return at the prescribed time is liable to a penalty up to £100.

Return forms are available at any post-office or from any office of the Land and Income Tax Department.

F. G. OBORN, Commissioner of Taxes.

The Standards Act, 1941.—Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

NOTICE is hereby given that on 14th March, 1951, the undermentioned specification was declared to be a standard specification 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.