25 FEB.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 317
Price Order No. 1533 (Main Crop Potatoes)
PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal,
hereby makes the following Price Order:
PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1533, and shall
   come into force on the 1st day of March 1954.
2. (1) Price Order No. 1479* is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Price 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, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “The said Act” means the Control of Prices Act 1947 :
   “Distributor”, in relation to any lot of potatoes, means a
   wholesaler, as defined in the said Act, who sells those
   potatoes otherwise than to a retailer for purposes of
   retail sale ;
   “Grower”, in relation to potatoes, means a person engaged
   in the business of growing potatoes 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 ;
   The expression “Good table” in reference to any lot of
   potatoes means potatoes of good shape according to
   variety, not more than 15 per cent of which can be
   passed through a square the sides of which have an
   inside measurement of 2 in.; the lot shall be free from
   green potatoes, from second growth, from dry or wet
   rots (including late blight or frost damage); the lot shall
   be practically free from earth, which shall not in any
   case exceed 3 per cent by weight of the lot; the weight
   of the lot affected by mechanical injury (including bruises
   and cuts) shall not exceed 2 per cent; and the lot shall
   be practically free from scab or other defects not herein
   mentioned;
   The expression “f.a.q.” in reference to any lot of potatoes
   means potatoes of fair average quality, being
   potatoes not more than 15 per cent of which can
   be passed through a square the sides of which have
   an inside measurement of 2 in.; not more than 2 per
   cent by weight of the lot shall be affected by dry or
   wet rots (including late blight or frost damage) or by
   severe mechanical injury (including severe bruises and
   cuts); and not more than 6 per cent by weight of the
   lot shall be affected as aforesaid or by scale or by second
   growth or by other defect; and the lot shall be reasonably
   free from earth or from rough or unshapely tubers
   The expression “Under-grade” in reference to any potatoes
   means potatoes that are not “good table” or “f.a.q.”
   potatoes ;
   The expression “f.o.b.s.e.” means “free on board, sacks or
   other containers extra”, and the expression “f.o.r.s.e.”
   means “free on rail, sacks or other containers extra”.
   (2) Terms and expressions defined in the said Act, when used
   in this Order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by
   that Act.
4. Subject to any general or specific directions that may be
   given by or on behalf of the Tribunal, any expenses that are
   reasonably incurred by a wholesaler or retailer in undertaking the
   transport of any potatoes at his own expense may be regarded for
   the purposes of this Order as if they were transport charges paid
   by him, and the maximum price of the potatoes shall be determined
   accordingly.
5. The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding
   that any potatoes to which this Order is applicable are sold otherwise
   than by weight.
6. The several prices, allowances, and margins of profit fixed
   by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction as well as to
   other sales.
7. (1) The growers' prices fixed by this Order do not include
   the cost of sacks or other containers.
   (2) The maximum price that may be charged or received
   by a grower for the sacks in which any lot of potatoes to which this
   Order applies are packed shall be computed as follows :—
   For corn sacks of a size 48 in. by 26½ in., 46 in. by 26½ in.,
   44 in. by 26½ in., 46 in. by 23 in., or 41 in. by 23 in. :
   At the rate of 10s. per ton of potatoes:
   For all other sacks or bags : No extra charge.
   (3) Where any potatoes to which this Order applies are
   packed in sacks the maximum price that may be charged or received
   for the potatoes shall be computed on the gross weight of the potatoes
   and the sacks.
   APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER
8. (1) This Order applies to potatoes, including imported
   potatoes, that are intended for human consumption
   (2) All potatoes sold or delivered to a purchaser during the
   currency of this Order shall be deemed to be intended for human
   consumption unless they are sold for some other specific purpose.
9. (1) The provisions of this Order fixing growers' prices shall
   apply only with respect to potatoes grown in New Zealand (a)
   that are the produce of seed potatoes planted on or before 31
   January 1954 ; or (b) that are the produce of seed potatoes planted
   after 31 January 1954 and that are delivered to the purchaser
   after the commencement of this Order and on or before 31 May

• Gazette, 16 July 1953, Vol. II, page 1160.
  (2) For the purposes of the last preceding subclause no potatoes
  sold on the basis off.o.b.s.e. or f.o.r.s.e. shall be deemed to be delivered
  to the purchaser after the commencement of this Order if—
  (a) In the case of sales f.o.b.s.e., the vessel on which the potatoes
  are laden leaves the port of shipment at any time before
  midnight of the 28th day of February 1954 ; or
  (b) In the case of sales f.o.r.s.e., the trucks on which the potatoes
  are laden leave the grower's station at any time before
  midnight of the said date.
  (3) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause potatoes
  sold f.o.b.s.e. or f.o.r.s.e. shall be deemed to be delivered to the
  purchaser after the commencement of this Order notwithstanding
  that they may have been actually laden on board any vessel or
  trucks before the commencement of this Order.

10. (1) With respect to potatoes grown in New Zealand, the
    provisions of this Order as to distributors' prices, wholesalers'
    prices, and retailers' prices respectively shall apply only with respect
    to potatoes (a) that are the produce of seed potatoes planted on or
    before 31 January 1954 ; or (b) that are the produce of seed potatoes
    planted after 31 January 1954, and that are sold on or before
    31 May 1954.
    (2) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, the
    provisions of this Order as to distributors' prices, wholesalers'
    prices, and retailers' prices respectively shall apply with respect
    to all potatoes intended for human consumption (whether grown in
    New Zealand or imported into New Zealand) that are sold by a
    distributor, wholesaler, or retailer (as the case may be) for delivery
    at any time after the coming into force of this Order.
    FIXING PRICES OF POTATOES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THIS ORDER
    Growers' Prices
11. (1) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Order and
    to the following provisions of this clause the actual price that may
    be charged or received by any grower for any good table grade or
    “f.a.q.” grade potatoes and the maximum price that may be
    charged or received by any grower for any under-grade potatoes to
    which this Order applies shall be determined in accordance with
    the following scale, namely :—
    (a) For Sutton's Supreme or King Edward potatoes grown in
    the South Island and sold for delivery in the months of March to
    June 1954 and thereafter pending the issue of any amending Price
    Order.
    Price per Ton f.o.b.s.e. a Port in the South Island.
    Good Table. f.a.q. Under-grade.
    (Actual (Actual (Maximum
    Price.) Price.) Price.)
    £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
    19 0 0 17 10 0 14 10 0
    (b) For Red Dakota potatoes grown in the South Island and
    sold for delivery in the months of March to June 1954 and thereafter
    pending the issue of any amending Price Order.
    Price per Ton f.o b.s.e. a Port in the South Island.
    Good Table. f.a.q. Under-grade.
    (Actual (Actual (Maximum
    Price.) Price.) Price.)
    £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
    18 15 0 17 5 0 14 5 0
    (c ) For any other variety of potatoes grown in the South
    lsland and sold for delivery in the months of March to June
    1954 and thereafter pending the issue of any amending Price
    Order.
    Price per Ton f.o.b.s.e. a Port in the South Island.
    Good Table. f.a.q. Under-grade.
    (Actual (Actual (Maximum
    Price.) Price.) Price.)
    £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
    17 15 0 16 5 0 13 5 0
    (d ) For potatoes grown in the counties of Collingwood,
    Takaka, Waimua, and Murchison the authorized prices operative
    in the remainder of the South Island may be increased
    by 10s. per ton.
    (e) For potatoes grown in the North Island and sold for delivery
    in the months of March to June 1954 and thereafter pending the
    issue of any amending Price Order.
    Price per Ton f.o.r.s.e. the Grower's Station.
    Good Table. f.a.q. Under-grade.
    (Actual (Actual (Maximum
    Price.) Price.) Price.)
    £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
    21 0 0 19 10 0 16 10 0
    (2) Where any potatoes grown in the South Island are delivered
    by a grower otherwise than f.o.b.s.e. a port in the South Island 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 him in effecting
    delivery and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would
    have been incurred by him if he had delivered the potatoes f.o.b.s.e.
    a port in the South Island.
    (3) Where any potatoes grown in the North Island are 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 him in effecting delivery
    and then reduced by the amount of the charges that would have been
    incurred by him if he had delivered the potatoes f.o.r.s.e. the grower's
    station.
    (4) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of
    this clause, where any extraordinary charges beyond the control
    of the grower are reasonably incurred by him in or in the course of
    delivering any potatoes at the place specified in any contract as
    the place of delivery, the amount of such charges may, with the
    approval of the Tribunal, be added to the price to be paid to the
    grower for those potatoes.