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Retailers' Prices

11. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any wheat to which this Order applies shall be the sum of the following amounts :—

(a) The cost of the wheat to the retailer at the point at which he takes delivery but not more in any case than the cost that would have been incurred had the retailer purchased the wheat in lots of ½ ton or more :

(b) The amount of any transport charges incurred by the retailer in obtaining delivery of the wheat into his store, being not more in any case than the charges that would have been incurred had delivery been effected at common carrier rates :

(c) An amount calculated at the rate per bushel as follows :—

(i) For wheat sold in sack lots : 1s. 3d. per bushel.

(ii) For wheat sold in lots of ½ bushel or more but less than one sack : 2s. per bushel.

(iii) For wheat sold in lots of less than ½ bushel : 2s. 9d. per bushel.

(2) Where the cost of the wheat to the retailer does not include the cost of the sacks the price computed in accordance with subclause (1) hereof may be increased at the rate of 11½d. per bushel.

12. Where the prices fixed by this Order do not include the price of the sacks, an additional charge may be made for the sacks not exceeding :—

For 46 in. by 23 in. sacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5
For 41 in. by 23 in. sacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5
For 29 in. by 18 in. (sugar bags) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0

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

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of January 1953.

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

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

Price Order No. 1438 (Malting Barley)

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 :—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1438, and shall come into force on the 15th day of January 1953.

2. (1) Price Order Nos. 1334*, 1341†, and 1345† are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Orders 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, Kinver Chevalier, Rigel, or Kenia :

"Reseller", in relation to barley to which this Order applies, means any person (other that 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. 11d. each ; for 46 in. by 23 in. sacks, 3s. 5d. 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 lst day of March 1952.

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.

• Gazette, 17 January 1952, Vol. I, page 44.
  † Gazette, 31 January 1952, Vol. I, page 127.
  ‡ Gazette, 14 February 1952, Vol. I, page 213.