6 MAY] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 711

SCHEDULE—continued

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES—continued

Truck and Bus Tires

Special Truck and Bus Tires as Defined Below

NOTE.—Special truck tires comprise: Dunlop’s “Roadtrak”, “Roadtrak Major”, “Trakgrip”, “Multistop”, and “P.T. Pattern”; Firestone’s “Ground Grip H.D.”, “City Commercial”, “Highway H.D.”, and “Dual purpose H.D.”; Goodrich’s “Ace Multi purpose”; India’s “Roadtrak” and “Trakgrip”; Reid Rubber’s “H.D. Store Door”, “All purpose”, and “Express Traction H.D.”; and Goodyear’s “Stop Start”, “Road lug”, “Suregrip”, and “P.T. Pattern”.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of May 1954.

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

[L.S.]

D. J. DALGLISH (Judge), President.
G. LAURENCE, Member.

Price Order No. 1550 (Rotorua Private-hotel Tariffs)

PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal hereby makes the following Price Order:

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 1550, and shall come into force on the 7th day of May 1954.

2. (1) Price Order No. 1417* is hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said 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. 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

4. 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.

5. (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.

• Gazette, 23 October 1952, Vol. III, page 1751.

6. (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.