No. 30
647

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 1957

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: MONDAY, 15 APRIL 1957

Price Order No. 1695 (Sugar, Retail Sales of)

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

1. (1) This order may be cited as Price Order No. 1695.
   (2) This order shall come into force on the 16th day of April 1957.

2. (1) Price Order No. 1541* 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—

“The company” means the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited;

“Distributor” means a duly recognised agent of the company who acquires sugar for resale to retail storekeepers or to bakers, sugar boilers, or other persons using sugar in manufacturing processes, and, with respect to sales of sugar made direct by the company to retail storekeepers or to bakers, sugar boilers, and other persons using sugar in manufacturing processes,

includes the company;

“Costs into store” means the price charged by a distributor for sugar to a retailer increased by such other costs as are actually incurred by the retailer in obtaining delivery of the sugar into his store.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) This order applies with respect to retail sales of sugar manufactured by the company and to any other sugar distributed by the company.
   (2) The percentage markup fixed by this order is fixed with respect to sugar sold in packages in accordance with the customary usage in the sugar trade.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICE OF SUGAR TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Retail Prices

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this order, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for sugar to which this order applies shall be the cost into store in respect of the lots sold increased by:

(a) A margin of 13¾ per cent when the lot being sold is portion of a purchase by the retailer of a quantity of sugar delivered alone or delivered together with golden syrup or treacle, the inclusive weight of the lot being not less than half a ton.

(b) A margin of 11¼ per cent where the lot being sold is portion of a purchase by the retailer of a lot of sugar delivered alone or delivered together with golden syrup or treacle, the inclusive weight of the lot being less than half a ton.

(2) Where delivery by the retailer of any sugar is effected otherwise than over the counter or, where the sale is not for cash, the maximum price of that sugar shall be the appropriate maximum price as determined by the foregoing provisions of this clause increased by 4d. per pound, provided that where both such conditions apply the appropriate maximum price shall not be increased by more than 4d. per pound.

(3) If in respect of any lot of sugar sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an exact number of pence or halfpence, the maximum price of the lot shall be calculated to the next upward halfpenny.

GENERAL

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the maximum price that may be charged by any retailer for sugar to which this order applies bought by the retailer before the date of the coming into force of this order and unsold by him at that date, shall not exceed the appropriate price authorised pursuant to the Control of Prices Act 1947, to be charged immediately before that date. In the case of sugar to which this order applies bought by a retailer after the coming into force of this order at the appropriate price authorised pursuant to the Control of Prices Act 1947, to be charged immediately before that date, such sugar shall not be resold at prices in excess of those so authorised prior to the coming into force of this order.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of April 1957.

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

[L.S.]

D. J. DALGLISH (Judge), President.
H. PEARCE, Member.

*Gazette, 29 March 1954, Vol. I, p. 483

Price 6d.

BY AUTHORITY: R. E. OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1957