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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 34

Price Order No. 1236 (Island Oranges)

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. 1236 and shall come into force on the 26th day of April, 1951.

2. (1) Price Order No .876* 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. (1) In this Order “Island oranges” means oranges grown in any of the Pacific Islands and imported into New Zealand.

(2) References in this Order to metropolitan areas are references to the metropolitan areas described in the Schedule hereto.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This Order applies with respect to all Island oranges.

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any Island oranges shall be—

(a) When sold by 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, Timaru, Oamaru, Gore, or Invercargill—

8½d. per pound.

(b) When sold by a retailer carrying on business elsewhere—

9d. per pound.

(2) If in respect of any lot of oranges 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 may be computed to the next upward halfpenny.

SPECIAL PRICES WHERE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES INCURRED

6. Subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any retailer, may authorize special prices in respect of any Island oranges to which this Order applies where special circumstances exist, or for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the retailer. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of oranges or may relate generally to all Island oranges to which this Order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

7. Every retailer who offers or exposes any Island oranges for sale in any shop shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the oranges 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:

(b) The word “Island”.

SCHEDULE

DEFINITION OF METROPOLITAN AREAS

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1951.

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

[L.S.]

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

• Gazette, 7th May, 1948, Vol. II, page 499.

Exemptions Under the Import Control Regulations 1938

Office of the Minister of Customs,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1951.

PURSUANT to clause 15 of the Import Control Regulations 1938, it is hereby notified for public information that goods of the classes specified in the First Schedule hereto imported from and being the produce or manufacture of any country other than the countries mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the requirement of a licence under the said regulations.

FIRST SCHEDULE

(2) Prunes.
(3) Bananas; cashews; goiavas; oranges. |
| 43 | Infants’ and invalids’ foods, as may be approved by the Minister. |
| 49 | Meats, potted or preserved, viz.:—
(1) Mutton birds.
(2) Pates de foie gras.
(3) Other kinds. |
| 56 | Pickles. |
| 61 (4) | Fish pastes. |
| 86 | Perfumed spirits including Cologne water, viz.:—
(1) Packed in bottles of a capacity not exceeding 4 fluid ounces.
(2) Other kinds. |
| 112 | Essences, culinary or flavouring, containing more than 40 per cent. of proof-spirit. |
| Ex 136 (2) | Dress shirts. |
| 153 (1) | Ostrich feathers, ornamental. |
| 153 (2) | Feathers, ornamental, other than ostrich feathers; artificial flowers, leaves, or sprays. |
| 153 (3) | Natural flowers, leaves, and sprays, dyed, painted, or similarly treated. |
| Ex 164 (2) | Rubber bathing-caps. |
| Ex 184 (2) | Handkerchiefs, lace-edged. |
| 198 (4) | Heel-plates and toe-plates. |
| 203 | Leather manufactures n.e.i. |
| 235 | Cards, playing. |
| Ex 239 (1) (2) | Bats, cricket, baseball, and table-tennis; billiard-cues; bows, arrows, quivers; bowls, indoor and outdoor; cricket-pads; cricket-stumps and bails; croquet-hoops; dartboards; fishing-rods, cane and wood; golf-tees; net-ends, table-tennis; reels for fishing-rods; skis and fittings, ski poles; targets; fully strung tennis-racquets the f.o.b. price of which does not exceed 7s. sterling. |
| Ex 239 (2) | Meccano and similar model engineering sets, and model-building sets. |
| 242 | Jewellery; plate, gold or silver; platedware. |
| 246 (1) | Mouldings in the piece, and panels, other than those comprised wholly of wood, suited for use in picture-frames or furniture-making, in building construction, or for similar purposes. |
| 246 | Mouldings in the piece, and panels, comprised wholly of wood, suited for picture-frames, cornices, walls, or ceilings. |
| 248 (1) | Phonographs, gramophones, graphophones, and similar instruments, including accessories peculiar thereto, n.e.i., but excluding cabinets and parts of cabinets. |
| 248 (2) | Cabinets and parts of cabinets when imported with and forming part of phonographs, gramophones, graphophones, and similar instruments, n.e.i. |
| 301 (1) | Paper transfers. |
| 303 | Showcards and calendars, all kinds, including glacier stickers suited for exhibition on windows. |
| 327 (1) | Furniture, cabinetware, and shelving specially suited for office, shop, or warehouse use, made up from sheet-metal not exceeding 0·080 inch in thickness. |
| 336 | Engines (including necessary controlling-gear therefor) specially suited for flying-machines, on declaration that they will be used solely in manufacture or completion of the same. |
| Ex 353 (4) | Electric toasters which embody an automatic ejector. |
| 380 | Flying-machines. |

SECOND SCHEDULE

ALBANIA, Argentina, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Somaliland, Germany (Russian Zone), Germany (Western), Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Roumania, Tangier, Uruguay, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Venezuela, Yugoslavia.

JACK T. WATTS,
For the Minister of Customs.