6 JULY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1167

Price Order No. 2044 (Flour)—(Amendment No. 1 of Price Order No. 2025)

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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. 2044 and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 2025.

2. This order shall come into force on the 10th day of July 1967.

3. (1) Except as provided under any subsequent authorisations issued in decimal currency under section 16 of the Control of Prices Act 1947, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any lot of flour to which this order applies shall be the price calculated in terms of clause 3 of Price Order No. 2025, converted to decimal currency at the rate of one dollar for every ten shillings, 10 cents for every shilling, and at the amounts shown in the table set out in subclause (2) hereof for sums of less than one shilling.

(2)

0½d.      0 cent
1d.—1½d.  1 cent
2d.—3d.   2 cents
3½d.—4d.  3 cents
4½d.—5d.  4 cents
5½d.—6½d. 5 cents
7d.—7½d.  6 cents
8d.—8½d.  7 cents
9d.—10d.  8 cents
10½d.—11d. 9 cents
11½d.—12d. 10 cents

Provided that where a trader because of difficulties relating to machine conversion continues to deal during the transitional period exclusively or principally in the existing currency, Price Order No. 2025 shall continue to apply without the variation stipulated in this order.

(3) In this price order the terms “decimal currency”, “existing currency”, and “transitional period” shall have the same meaning as in the Decimal Currency Act 1964.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of July 1967.

The seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of:

S. T. BARNETT, President.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.
J. R. DENCH, Member.

[L.S.]

(I. and C.)

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Price Order No. 2045 (Butter—Recovery of Extraordinary Charges)

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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. 2045 and shall come into force on the 10th day of July 1967.

2. In this order unless the context otherwise requires “existing currency” and “decimal currency” shall have the same meaning as in the Decimal Currency Act 1964.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This order applies with respect to all sales in New Zealand by way of wholesale or retail of any butter within the meaning of the Butter and Cheese Marketing Regulations 1948, in respect of which special approval has been granted to any retailer or wholesale distributor to make an addition to the maximum prices fixed from time to time by price order in respect of extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) incurred by that retailer or wholesale distributor.

CONVERSION OF APPROVED ADDITIONS TO MAXIMUM PRICES FROM THE EXISTING CURRENCY TO DECIMAL CURRENCY

4. Where additions to the maximum prices fixed in the price order have been approved in the existing currency in respect of butter, such additions are to be converted to decimal currency in accordance with the following table:

   Additions Approved Additions Approved
   Under Existing Under Decimal
   Currency Pence Currency Cents
   ½} ..... ..... ..... 1
   1} ..... ..... ..... 1
   1½} ..... ..... ..... 2
   2 ..... ..... ..... 2

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of July 1967.

The seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of:

S. T. BARNETT, President.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.

[L.S.]

(I. and C.)

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Price Order No. 2046 (Bread—Recovery of Extraordinary Charges)

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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. 2046 and shall come into force on the 10th day of July 1967.

2. In this order unless the context otherwise requires “existing currency” and “decimal currency” shall have the same meaning as in the Decimal Currency Act 1964.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This order applies in respect of all sales of bread referred to in clauses 4, 5, and 6 of Price Order 2043 (Bread) sold in New Zealand for which special approval has been granted to any baker, wholesaler, or retailer, to make an addition to the maximum prices fixed from time to time by price order in respect of extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) incurred by the baker, wholesale distributor, or retailer.

CONVERSION OF APPROVED ADDITIONS TO MAXIMUM PRICES FROM THE EXISTING CURRENCY TO DECIMAL CURRENCY

4. Where additions to the maximum retail prices fixed by price order have been approved in the existing currency, such additions are to be converted to decimal currency in accordance with the following table:

   Addition Approved Addition Approved
   Under Existing Under Decimal
   Currency Pence Currency Cents
   ½} ..... ..... ..... 1
   1} ..... ..... ..... 1
   1½} ..... ..... ..... 2
   2} ..... ..... ..... 2
   2½} ..... ..... ..... 3
   3 and over ..... ..... 3

5. The maximum retail selling price of any bread subject to authorised additions shall be determined by adding the appropriate addition in decimal currency, as indicated in clause 4 of this order, to the appropriate maximum retail price order price.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of July 1967.

The seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of:

S. T. BARNETT, President.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.
J. R. DENCH, Member.

[L.S.]

(I. and C.)

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Price Order No. 2047 (Tyres and Tubes Imported into New Zealand)

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PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, I, Geoffrey Harold Datson, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Industries and Commerce, acting under a delegation from the Price Tribunal, hereby make the following price order:

1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 2047 and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 1659.

2. This order shall come into force on the 10th day of July 1967.

3. (1) The maximum price that may be charged for any imported tyre or tube to which this order applies shall be that contained in the Schedule to Price Order No. 1659 and in special approvals issued subsequent to the coming into force of that price order, converted to decimal currency at the rate of 10 cents for every shilling, and at the amounts shown in the table set out in subclause (2) hereof for sums of less than one shilling.

(2)

3d.   2 cents
6d.   5 cents
9d.   8 cents

Provided that where a trader because of difficulties relating to machine conversion continues to deal during the transitional period exclusively or principally in the existing currency, Price Order No. 1659 shall continue to apply without the variation stipulated in this order.

(3) In this price order the terms “decimal currency”, “existing currency”, and “transitional period” shall have the same meaning as in the Decimal Currency Act 1964.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of July 1967.

G. H. DATSON,
Director of Trade Practices and Prices Division.

(I. and C.)