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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No.

Price Order No. 1611 (Australian Oranges)

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. 1611, and shall come into force on the 10th day of June 1955.

2. (1) Price Order No. 1569* 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 Australian oranges sold by way of retail in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF ORANGES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) The maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any oranges to which this Order applies shall be determined as follows:

(a) With respect to oranges sold at any place within the metropolitan areas of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin as defined in the Schedule hereto or in any of the cities or boroughs of Whangarei, Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Blenheim, Nelson, Greymouth, Westport, Timaru, Oamaru, Balclutha, Gore, or Invercargill—

At the Rate of:
Per Pound
s. d.
Australian oranges ....... 1 2½

(b) With respect to oranges sold elsewhere in New Zealand—

At the Rate of:
Per Pound
s. d.
Australian oranges ....... 1 3

(2) If in respect of any lot of oranges the price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an exact number of pence or half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the next upward halfpenny.

PROVISION FOR SPECIAL PRICES

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

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

6. Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale in any shop any oranges to which this Order applies shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the oranges to which it relates as to be obviously in relation thereto a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated in legible and prominent characters the word “Australian” and the retail price per pound of the oranges.

SCHEDULE

DEFINITION OF METROPOLITAN AREAS

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of June 1955.

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

[L.S.]

G. LAURENCE, Presiding Member.
H. PEARCE, Member.

*Gazette, 30 September 1954, Vol III, page 1530.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

CEDRIC VICTOR SEFONT, of 990 Beach Road, Torbay, Auckland, Labourer, was adjudged bankrupt on 1 June 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 16 June 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

RICHARD ALLAN PRATT, of 13 Tuakara Street, Tamaki, Painter, was adjudged bankrupt on 2 June 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 16 June 1955, at 2.15 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Notice of Order Annulling an Adjudication

TAKE notice that by an Order of the Supreme Court, Auckland, dated 27 May 1955, the Order of Adjudication dated 26 November 1954, against George Herbert Guy, of Mount Albert, Manufacturer, was annulled.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee
Auckland.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

JOHN FAIRBAIRN, of 399 Mount Eden Road, Auckland, Salesman, was adjudged bankrupt on 30 May 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Monday, 13 June 1955, at 2.15 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee
Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East, Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

RONALD CHARLES SHARPE, of Opunake, Plumber, was adjudged bankrupt on 2 June 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Opunake, on Thursday, 16 June 1955, at 10.45 a.m.

M. COLE, Official Assignee
Hawera.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

GERALD DOLMAN, of Feilding, Milk Bar Proprietor, was adjudged bankrupt on 31 May 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Palmerston North, on 13 June 1955, at 2 p.m.

A. R. C. CLARIDGE, Official Assignee
Courthouse, Palmerston North.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

CHARLES EMIL OLLIVER, formerly of Mosgiel, Caterer, now of Oamaru, Gardener, was adjudged bankrupt on 3 June 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at my office on Thursday, 16 June 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

C. MASON, Official Assignee
Supreme Court Building, Dunedin, 3 June 1955.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Volume 343 folio 130, Canterbury Registry, for 32 perches or thereabouts, situated in Block VII of the Christchurch Survey District, being part of Lots 7 and 8 on Deposited Plan No. 2426, part of Rural Section 5, in the name of MICHAEL JOHN BROWN, of Ohapuhu, Farmer (now deceased), having been lodged with me together with an application for the issue of a new certificate of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such new certificate of title upon the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 3rd day of June 1955 at the Land Registry Office, Christchurch.

N. E. WILSON, District Land Registrar