No. 74

NEW ZEALAND

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
New Zealand Gazette
OF
THURSDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 1954
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 1954

Price Order No. 1578 (Eggs)

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. 1578, and shall come into force on the 29th day of November 1954.

2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 1467,* 1477†, 1485‡, 1494§, 1499||, 1518¶, 1539,** 1545††, 1547‡‡, 1555§§, 1558|||, and 1561¶¶ 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 area so constituted under the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953***:
   “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 Authority Regulations 1953,*** the classification of such eggs for the purposes of this Order shall correspond to the grading under those regulations.

(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 2⅜ oz. shall be classified as “Large”.

(b) All eggs of a weight less than 2⅜ 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 eggs 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 paragraph (a) of subclause (2) of regulation 26 of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953 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.

• Gazette, 8 May 1953, Vol. II, page 729.
  † Gazette, 10 July 1953, Vol. II, page 1121.
  ‡ Gazette, 31 July 1953, Vol. II, page 1257.
  § Gazette, 9 October 1953, Vol. III, page 1643.
  || Gazette, 20 November 1953, Vol. III, page 1905.
  ¶ Gazette, 15 January 1954, Vol. I, page 93.
  ** Gazette, 19 March 1954, Vol. I, page 439.
  †† Gazette, 2 April 1954, Vol. I, page 536.
  ‡‡ Gazette, 23 April 1954, Vol. I, page 638.
  §§ Gazette, 18 June 1954, Vol. II, page 1026.
  ||| Gazette, 23 July 1954, Vol. II, page 1202.
  ¶¶ Gazette, 20 August 1954, Vol. II, page 1356.
  *** Statutory Regulations 1953, Serial number 1953/156, page 740.