26 August] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1375

Price Order No. 1563 (Milking Machine Rubberware)

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. 1563, and shall come into force on the 1st day of September 1954.

2. (1) Price Order No. 1357* 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.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This Order applies with respect to all milking machine rubberware specified in the Schedule hereto that has been manufactured in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF RUBBERWARE TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Wholesalers’ Prices

4. The maximum price that may be charged or received by any wholesaler (including a manufacturer) for any rubberware to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate retail price specified in the Schedule hereto in relation to the rubberware reduced as follows:

(a) In respect of sales made to a retailer: By 17½ per cent of that price:

(b) In respect of sales made to a member of the Dairy Machinery Traders’ Association or to a milking machine manufacturer: By 17½ per cent of the said appropriate retail price and the amount so calculated by a further 7½ per cent of that amount.

Retailers’ Prices

5. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any rubberware to which this Order applies shall be computed at the appropriate price specified in the Schedule hereto in relation to the rubberware.

(2) Where a retailer sells a portion of a 60 ft. length of claw, air, or milk tubing, the maximum price that may be charged for the portion sold shall be such proportion of the price fixed for the 60 ft. length as the length of the part sold bears to 60 ft.: provided that the price so calculated may be increased by 5 per cent thereof.

(3) If the retail price charged in accordance with the provisions of this clause is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price shall be computed to the next upward half penny.

Provision for Special Prices

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

SCHEDULE

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF RUBBERWARE TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Description of Goods to Which This Order Applies

Gazette, 20 March 1952, Vol. I, page 415

TUBES AND TUBING

Black and Grey Claw Tubes and Tubing

Red Claw Tubes and Tubing

Black and Grey Air Tubes and Tubing

Red Air Tubes and Tubing

Black and Grey Milk Tubes and Tubing

Red Milk Tubes and Tubing

TUBING IN 60 FOOT COILS

NOTES.—All tubes and tubing listed in this Price Order, other than those listed as “Tubing in 60 foot coils”, are manufactured in straight lengths on mandrels.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of August 1954.

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

[L.S.]

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