No. 25

NEW ZEALAND

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
New Zealand Gazette
OF
THURSDAY, 7 MAY 1953
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, 8 MAY 1953

Price Order No. 1467 (Eggs)

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. 1467, and shall
   come into force on the 11th day of May 1953.

2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 1393*, 1414†, 1427‡, 1444§, 1449||,
   and 1453¶ are hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said Orders shall not affect the
liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed
before the coming into force of this Order.

3. In this Order,
   The expressions “Nelson Egg Marketing Area” and
   “Wellington Egg Marketing Area” mean respectively,
   the areas so constituted under the Egg Marketing
   Regulations 1951:
   “Blenheim District” means the district within a radius of
   ten miles from the post-office at Blenheim:
   “Picton District” means the district within a radius of ten
   miles from the post-office at Picton.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) Except as provided in the next succeeding subclause,
   this Order applies with respect to all sales, whether wholesale or
   retail, of eggs of domestic fowls or ducks.

(2) This Order shall not apply with respect to the sale of eggs
within the South Island excepting the Nelson Egg Marketing Area,
the Blenheim District, and the Picton District or to the sale of eggs
which the vendor proves were sold for the purposes of hatching.

CLASSIFICATION OF EGGS FOR PURPOSES OF THIS ORDER
Hen Eggs

5. (1) For the purposes of this Order every lot of hen eggs
   sold by a producer, or wholesaler, or retailer shall be classified as
   “Heavy Grade”, “Standard Grade”, “Medium Grade”, “Pullet
   Grade”, or “Mixed”.

(2) With respect to hen eggs that have been graded in accordance
with the Egg Marketing Regulations 1951**, the classification of
such eggs for the purposes of this Order shall correspond to the
grading under those regulations.

• Gazette, 18 July 1952, Vol. II, page 1236.

• Gazette, 9 October 1952, Vol. III, page 1699.
  † Gazette, 28 November 1952, Vol. III, page 1981.
  ‡ Gazette, 23 January 1953, Vol. I, page 95.
  § Gazette, 29 January 1953, Vol. I, page 145.
  || Gazette, 13 March 1953, Vol. I, page 459.
  ** Statutory Regulations 1951, Serial number 1951/203, page 684.

(3) With respect to hen eggs that have not been graded in
accordance with the said regulations, the following special provisions
shall apply:

(a) Any lot of eggs sold or offered for sale may be classified
for the purposes of this Order as “Heavy Grade”,
“Standard Grade”, “Medium Grade”, or “Pullet
Grade” as the case may be if all the eggs in the lot
would be of the corresponding grade if they had been
graded under the said regulations.

(b) Any lot of eggs sold or offered for sale consisting of eggs
which, if graded under the said regulations, would be
graded in more than one grade shall be classified for the
purposes of this Order as “Mixed Eggs”: Provided
that if the average weight of the eggs in the lot is less
than 2 oz. the lot shall be classified as “Pullet Grade”
eggs.

Duck Eggs

6. (1) For the purposes of this Order, every lot of duck eggs
   sold by a producer, wholesaler, or retailer shall be classified as
   “Large”, “Small”, or “Mixed”.

(2) With respect to the classification of duck eggs—
(a) All eggs of a weight not less than 2⅔ oz. shall be classified
as “Large”.

(b) All eggs of a weight less than 2⅔ oz. shall be classified as
“Small”.

(c) If any lot of eggs comprises some eggs classifiable as
“Large” and some classifiable as “Small” all the
ees in the lot shall be classified as “Mixed”.

FIXING MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES OF EGGS TO WHICH THIS
ORDER APPLIES

7. (1) The price that may be charged or received by any
   wholesaler (including a producer selling otherwise than by way of
   retail) for any eggs to which this Order applies shall not exceed
   the appropriate maximum price specified in the First Schedule
   hereto.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of
this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received
by any producer for preserved eggs sold in a quantity of less than
30 dozen to any person authorized under the provisions of para-
graph (a) of subclause (2) of regulation 29 of the Egg Marketing
Regulations 1951 to purchase such eggs shall be the appropriate
maximum price fixed for preserved eggs in the First Schedule hereto
as amended or substituted from time to time, reduced by 2½d.

(3) Every wholesaler (including a producer selling otherwise than
by way of retail) who sells any eggs to which this Order applies shall
specify in the relevant invoices with respect to each item the
classification of the eggs comprised in the item.