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. 1398, and shall
   come into force on the 4th day of August 1952.
2. Price Order No. 1395* is hereby revoked.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies with respect to all potatoes imported
   into New Zealand from Australia and sold by way of retail.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF POTATOES TO WHICH THIS
ORDER APPLIES

4. The maximum price that may be charged or received for
   any potatoes to which this Order applies that are sold by way of
   retail shall be determined as follows :

North Island
(a) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place
of business is situate within a radius of twenty miles
from the principal Post Office at Auckland or Wellington,
the maximum price shall be 5½d. per pound.
(b) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place
of business is situate elsewhere in the North Island
than at one of the places specified in paragraph (a)
hereof the maximum price shall be 6d. per pound.

South Island
(c) Where the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place
of business is situate in the land district of Nelson or
within a radius of twenty miles from the principal
Post Office at Christchurch or Dunedin, the maximum
price shall be 6d. per pound.
(d) When the potatoes are sold by any retailer whose place of
business is situated elsewhere in the South Island than
at one of the places specified in paragraph (c) hereof the
maximum price shall be 6½d. per pound.

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

5. Every retailer who offers or exposes any potatoes to which
   this Order applies for sale in any shop shall keep in a prominent
   position in such proximity to the potatoes 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 word
   “Australian” and the retail price per pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of July 1952.

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

G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
D. W. A. BARKER, Member.

• Gazette, 24 July 1952, Vol. II, page 1259.

Price Order No. 1397 (Amendment No. 1 of Price Order 1327)
Australian, South African, and Jamaican Oranges and Jamaican
Grapefruit

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 amending Price Order :—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1397, and shall
   be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 1327*
   (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of August

4. The principal Order is amended as follows :—
   By revoking clause 4 and substituting the following clause :—
   “ 4. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received
   by any retailer for any oranges or grapefruit to which this Order
   applies shall be determined as follows :—
   “(a) With respect to oranges and grapefruit sold at any place
   within the metropolitan areas of Auckland, Wellington,
   Christchurch, or Dunedin as defined in the Schedule
   hereto 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—

At the rate of:
Per Pound.
s. d.
“Australian or South African oranges 1 2½
“Jamaican oranges ... 1 2
“Jamaican grapefruit ... 0 11
“(b) With respect to oranges and grapefruit sold elsewhere in
New Zealand—

At the rate of:
Per Pound.
s. d.
“Australian or South African oranges 1 3
“Jamaican oranges ... 1 2½
“Jamaican grapefruit ... 0 11½
“(2) If in respect of any lot of oranges or grapefruit the 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 computed to the next upward halfpenny.”

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of July 1952.

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

G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
D. W. A. BARKER, Member.

• Gazette, 20 December 1951, Vol. III, page 1878.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that on 24 July 1952, the under-
mentioned specification was declared to be a standard
specification by the Minister of Industries and Commerce pursuant
to section 8 of the Standards Act 1941 :

Number and Title of Specification. Price of
Copy (Post
Free).
s. d.
N.Z.S.S. 673 : By-law for fire prevention ... 2 6

Applications for copies should be made to the N.Z. Standards
Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195),
Wellington C. 1.

NOTE.—This standard is in the course of printing, and copies
will be available soon.

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

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy

NOTICE is hereby given that a dividend is now payable in the
undermentioned estate on all proved claims :

Martin, Bevan Gordon, Laingham, Company Manager. First
and final dividend of 20s. in the pound.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C. 1, 24 July
1952.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

ALTON GARNET OVER, of 18 Walters Road, Auckland,
Traveller, was adjudged bankrupt on 23 July 1952. Creditors'
meeting will be held at my office on Wednesday, 6 August 1952, at
10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland
C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

E V. FAULKNER, of Mairangi Bay, Fruiterer, was adjudged
bankrupt on 25 July 1952. Creditors' meeting will be held
at my office on Thursday, 7 August 1952, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East,
Auckland C. 1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

A R. HORNELL, of Wellsford, Builder, was adjudged bankrupt
on 25 July 1952. Creditors' meeting will be held at my office
on Friday, 8 August 1952, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East,
Auckland C. 1.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of the outstanding
duplicate of certificate of title, Volume 484, folio 294
(Wellington Registry), in the name of EDWARD MURDISON
JOHNSON, of Kakahi, Farmer, for 21 perches, being part Section 63,
Block VI, Hunua Survey District, and application (K. 31736)
having been made for a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, I
hereby give notice of my intention to issue such new certificate
of title on the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the
Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 28th day of July 1952 at the Land Registry Office,
Wellington.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of the outstanding
duplicate of certificate of title, Volume 153, folio 131
(Wellington Registry), in the name of THOMAS PROCTOR, of
Wellington, Settler, for 1.7 perches, being part Section 9, Town
District, and being also Lot 7 on Deposited Plan 1000, and application (K. 31762) having been made for a new certificate of title in
lieu thereof, I hereby give notice of my intention to issue such new
certificate of title on the expiration of fourteen days from the date
of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 28th day of July 1952 at the Land Registry Office,
Wellington.

E. C. ADAMS, District Land Registrar.