23 MARCH

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Order No. 4 (1961) of the Trade Practices and Prices Commission

In the matter of the Trade Practices Act 1958 and in the matter of the agreements or arrangements between the Auckland and Provincial, the Wellington Provincial, the H.B. and East Coast, the Canterbury, Westland, Nelson and Marlborough, and the Otago and Southland Funeral Directors’ Associations respectively and their respective members in respect of charitable aid funeral burial and allied services
WHEREAS the Trade Practices and Prices Commission has pursuant to section 18 of the Trade Practices Act 1958 conducted an inquiry into the respective agreements or arrangements between the Auckland and Provincial Funeral Directors’ Association and its members, the Wellington Provincial Funeral Directors’ Association and its members, the H.B. and East Coast Funeral Directors’ Association and its members, the Canterbury, Westland, Nelson and Marlborough Funeral Directors’ Association and its members, and the Otago and Southland Funeral Directors’ Association and its members covering funeral burial and allied services to be performed on behalf of the Hospital Boards within the area of the respective Associations whereby the said respective Associations agree to contract on behalf of the respective members with the said Hospital Boards in respect of the performance by the said members of charitable aid funeral burial and allied services upon terms and conditions agreed upon between the said respective Associations and the said Hospital Boards
And whereas the Trade Practices and Prices Commission is of opinion that the said agreements or arrangements are trade practices which are contrary to the public interest now therefore the Trade Practices and Prices Commission pursuant to sections 19 and 21 of the Trade Practices Act 1958 by consent hereby orders the said Associations and their members respectively to terminate the said agreements or arrangements as from and including the 1st day of May 1961
And further orders the said Associations and their members respectively as from and including the said 1st day of May 1961 not to revive the said agreements or arrangements or to enter into any agreements or arrangements of substantially the same nature
And further orders the said Associations to discontinue the said practice of entering into contracts for funeral burial and allied services with the said Hospital Boards on behalf of the members of the said Associations and to terminate any such existing contracts on the 30th day of April 1961
And further orders the said Associations not to revive the said practice of entering into contracts on behalf of the members of the said Associations or to observe any other practice of substantially the same nature or to repeat in any form the said practice
And further orders the said Associations to advise each of their members in writing on or before the 30th day of April 1961 that no further such contracts will be made on their behalf and that each Association member will as from the date of publication of this order be free to tender individually for such contracts at such price or prices and on such terms and conditions as such member may determine.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of March 1961.
The seal of the Trade Practices and Prices Commission was affixed hereto in the presence of—
[L.S.]
S. T. BARNETT, Chairman.
R. D. CHRISTIE, Member.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.
(I. and C.)

Order No. 5 (1961) of the Trade Practices and Prices Commission

In the matter of the Trade Practices Act 1958 and in the matter of an agreement or arrangement between the New Zealand Federation of Funeral Directors (Incorporated) and its member Associations in respect of funeral and burial services.
WHEREAS the Trade Practices and Prices Commission has pursuant to section 18 of the Trade Practices Act 1958 conducted an inquiry into an agreement or arrangement between the New Zealand Federation of Funeral Directors (Incorporated) and its member Associations the Auckland and Provincial Funeral Directors’ Association the Wellington Provincial Funeral Directors’ Association, the H.B. and East Coast Funeral Directors’ Association, the Canterbury, Westland, Nelson and Marlborough Funeral Directors’ Association, and the Otago and Southland Funeral Directors’ Association covering funeral and burial services to be performed on behalf of the Navy Army Air and War Pensions Departments of the Government of New Zealand whereby the said Federation agrees to contract on behalf of the members of the said Associations with Her Majesty the Queen in respect of the performance by the said members of funeral and burial services of members and ex-members of the Armed Forces upon terms and conditions agreed upon between the said Federation and Her Majesty the Queen
And whereas the Trade Practices and Prices Commission is of opinion that the said agreement or arrangement is a trade practice which is contrary to the public interest now therefore the Trade Practices and Prices Commission pursuant to sections 19 and 21 of the Trade Practices Act 1958 by consent hereby orders the said Federation to terminate the said agreement or arrangement as from and including the 1st day of May 1961
And further orders the said Federation and its member Associations as from and including the said 1st day of May 1961 not to revive the said agreement or arrangement or to enter into any agreement or arrangement of substantially the same nature
And further orders the said Federation to discontinue the practice of entering into contracts for funeral and burial services with Her Majesty the Queen in respect of the said Departments of the Government of New Zealand on behalf of the members of the said Associations and to terminate any such existing contracts on the 30th day of April 1961
And further orders the said Federation not to revive the said practice of entering into contracts on behalf of the members of the said Associations or to observe any other practice of substantially the same nature or to repeat in any form the said practice
And further orders the said Federation and its member Associations respectively to advise each of their members in writing on or before the 30th day of April 1961 that no further such contracts will be made on their behalf and that each Association member will as from the date of publication of this order be free to tender individually for such contracts at such price or prices and on such terms and conditions as such member may determine.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of March 1961.
The seal of the Trade Practices and Prices Commission was affixed hereto in the presence of—
[L.S.]
S. T. BARNETT, Chairman.
R. D. CHRISTIE, Member.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.
(I. and C.)

Retention of Title of “Honourable”

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, is published for general information.
Dated at Wellington this 21st day of March 1961.
LÉON GÖTZ, Minister of Internal Affairs.
New Zealand
No. 6
My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s despatch No. 35 of the 19th December, and to request you to inform your Ministers that The Queen has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by
Mr Frederick Hackett,
Mr William Arthur Fox,
Mr Hugh Watt,
Mr Phillip George Connolly, D.S.C., V.R.D.,
Mr Michael Moohan,
Mr Philip North Holloway,
Mr Philip Oscar Selwyn Skoglund,
Miss Mabel Bowden Howard,
Mr John Mathison,
Mr Raymond Boord, and
Mr William Theophilus Anderton,
who have served for more than three years as Members of the Executive Council of New Zealand.
2. A notification to this effect will be published in the London Gazette.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
DUNCAN SANDYS.
Governor-General
His Excellency The Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham, G.C.M.G.

Plant Declared Noxious Weed in the Waiheke Road District
(Notice No. Ag. 7232)

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said section, hereby publishes the following special order made by the Waiheke Road Board on the 17th day of February 1961.

SPECIAL ORDER

RESOLVED by way of special order that milk thistle or variegated thistle (Silybum marianum) be declared a noxious weed in this district.
Dated at Wellington this 13th day of March 1961.
P. W. SMALLFIELD, Director-General of Agriculture.