12 MARCH]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

The Standards Act 1941—Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

NOTICE is hereby given that on the dates stated in the first column hereunder, the undermentioned specifications were declared to be standard specifications by the Minister of Industries and Commerce pursuant to section 8 of the Standards Act 1941.

*Note.—These standards are in the course of printing. Copies will be available soon.

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

L. J. McDONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1925—Proposed Cancellation of Registration of Industrial Union

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 23 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1925, the registration of the Southland Flaxmill Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, Registered No. 1754, situated at Invercargill, will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of March 1953.

W. H. CADWALLADER,
Registrar of Industrial Unions,
Department of Labour and Employment.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1925—Cancellation of Registration

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 22 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1925, the registration of the Hawke’s Bay Woolscourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, Registered No. 2056, situated at Napier, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of March 1953.

W. H. CADWALLADER,
Registrar of Industrial Unions,
Department of Labour and Employment.

Officiating Ministers for 1953—Notice No. 8

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:

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, Commonly Called the Church of England

The Reverend David Alwyn Braddock.
The Reverend Kenneth Frederick Langley Braddock.
The Reverend William Kingston Erson.

Methodist Church of New Zealand

Mr. Roy Coombridge.

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of March 1953.

S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

Price Order No. 1452 (Queenstown Private-hotel Tariffs)

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. 1452, and shall come into force on the 13th day of March 1953.

2. In this Order unless the context otherwise requires,——

‘‘ Accommodation ’’ means the provision of lodging or meals at hotels, and includes the provision of services of the kind normally rendered to guests in hotels of the grade concerned:

‘‘ Guest ’’ means a person who, pursuant to an agreement with the proprietor to accept and pay for lodging at an hotel, is occupying a bedroom in that hotel, but does not include any person who occupies a room in an hotel in accordance with a contract of service with the proprietor. Until a bedroom is vacated it shall be deemed to be occupied, and a bedroom shall not be deemed to be vacated until the proprietor or his agent is notified by the guest to that effect:

‘‘ Hotel ’’ means premises customarily known as private hotels, and includes guesthouses and accommodation-houses, but does not include any premises in respect of which a licence under the Licensing Act 1908 has been granted or any premises not for the time being referred to in the Schedule hereto.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies to charges that may be made in respect of accommodation provided at any hotel whether that accommodation is provided to guests or to persons who are not guests.

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order each hotel shall be assigned one of the following grades:—

AA. BB. CC. DD.
A. B. C. D.

(2) The grade assigned to an hotel shall be the grade specified in the Schedule hereto in respect of that hotel.

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order the maximum charge that may be made or received for accommodation in an hotel shall, according to the grade of the hotel, be at the rate per day specified hereunder:—

(2) The maximum charge that may be made for any separate item of accommodation shall, according to the grade of the hotel, be the appropriate charge specified hereunder:—

(3) Where any meal referred to in subclause (2) hereof is served in an hotel to any person who is not a guest, or who has not agreed to become a guest of the hotel, the proprietor may charge that person for any such meal an amount not exceeding 1s. in the case of a dinner or 6d. in the case of a breakfast or lunch in excess of the amount authorized by the said subclause (2) to be charged for the meal.

(4) Unless an agreement to the contrary is made between the proprietor of an hotel and a guest at the hotel the charges specified in subclause (2) hereof may be made for each of the items of accommodation prescribed in that subclause that are available to the guest, notwithstanding that he may not have availed himself of any such accommodation.

(5) Where a guest occupies a bedroom after 10 a.m. on any day but vacates the bedroom before 7 p.m. on that day, he may be charged half the amount prescribed in sub-clause (2) hereof as the daily charge for a bedroom if he vacates the room before 2.30 p.m. on that day, and three-quarters of the amount so prescribed if he vacates the room before 7 p.m. on that day. A bedroom occupied at any time after 7 p.m. on one day and before 10 a.m. on the following day may be charged for at the full daily rate so prescribed.

(6) Where tea, cocoa, or coffee is served with any meal or immediately after any meal, no additional charge shall be made therefor, and no additional charge shall be made for early morning tea, morning tea, afternoon tea, or supper.

(7) For the purposes of this clause the term ‘‘ dinner ’’, means the chief meal of the day whenever served, and the term ‘‘ lunch ’’ includes a meal served in the evening if dinner has been served earlier in the day.