28 AUGUST THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1625

National Roads Board—Notice Declaring State Highway to be a Limited Access Road

It is notified that the National Roads Board, by resolution dated 20 August 1969 and pursuant to section 4 of the Public Works Amendment Act 1963, hereby declares that part of No. 1 State Highway (Picton-Bluff), from its junction with S.H. 72 at Woodend to the northern boundary of Kaiapoi Borough, as more particularly shown on sheets 1, 2, and 3 of plans M.O.W. 15542 and the accompanying Schedule held in the office of the resident engineer, Ministry of Works, Christchurch and there available for public inspection, to be a limited access road.

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of August 1969.

J. L. PRENDERGAST, Assistant Secretary.

(72/1/14/5)

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956 (as amended by section 3 (1) of the Local Authorities Loans Amendment Act 1967), the undersigned Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, acting under powers delegated to the Secretary to the Treasury by the Minister of Finance, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Local Authority and Name of Loan Amount Consented to $
Christchurch City Council: Renewal Loan (No. 2): 1969 221,420
Eltham County Council: Rural Housing Loan 1969 60,000
Masterton Fire Board: Masterton New Fire Station Supplementary Loan 1969 15,000
Napier Harbour Board: Development Loan No. 2, 1969 1,450,000
New Lynn Borough Council: Streets Completion Redemption Loan 1969 15,000
North Shore Drainage Board: Redemption Loan No. 7, 1969 510,500
Paparua County Council: Halswell High Pressure Water Supply Redemption Loan 1969 32,820
Piako County Council: Rural Housing Loan 1969 200,000
South Canterbury Electric Power Board: Renewal Loan 1969 40,000
Southland Catchment Board: Upper Waikaka River Works Loan 1969 42,500
Tauranga County Council: Rural Housing Loan 1969 200,000
Thames Valley Electric-power Board: Reticulation Loan 1969 1,200,000

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of August 1969.

J. D. LANG, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.

(T. 40/416/6)

Lunch Hour Opening at Certain Magistrates’ Courts

PURSUANT to rule 11 (2) of the Magistrates’ Courts Rules 1948, the Minister of Justice has directed that the Magistrates’ Courts at Gisborne, Lower Hutt, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Otahuhu, Timaru, Wanganui, and Whangarei be open to the public from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on and from 1 October 1969.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of August 1969.

J. L. ROBSON, Secretary for Justice

(J. 18/26/11 (20))

Price Order No. 2113 (Raw Tobacco Leaf)

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

1. (a) This order may be cited as Price Order No. 2113 and shall come into force on the 29th day of August 1969.

(b) Price Order No. 2088* is hereby revoked.

2. In this order—

“Flue-cured leaf” means leaf that has been treated in the kiln for at least 3 successive days immediately after picking for the purpose of yellowing, fixing colour, drying, and drying mid-ribs:

“Air-dried leaf” means leaf other than flue-cured leaf:

“Raw tobacco” means unmanufactured tobacco and includes the leaves and stems of the tobacco plant before they have passed through any process of manufacture other than curing:

“Sale” includes a contract for sale, agreement to sell, and offer for sale; “purchase” includes a contract for purchase, agreement to purchase, and offer to purchase; and “sale” and “purchase” include barter and exchange.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This order applies with respect to all raw tobacco leaf grown in New Zealand during the 1967–68 season and the 1968–69 season: Provided that the Tribunal may, in any case where it considers it proper to do so and subject to such conditions (if any) as it thinks fit, exempt any such tobacco from the operation of this order.

FIXING AVERAGE PRICES OF RAW TOBACCO LEAF TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) Subject to subclause (2) hereof, the average price to be paid by any tobacco manufacturer for raw tobacco leaf to which this order applies shall be not less than—

                                                1967/68 Season    1968/69 Season

   (a) For flue-cured leaf: 64c per pound 66c per pound
   (b) For air-dried leaf: 54c per pound 56c per pound

(2) In respect of raw tobacco leaf purchased in loose form, any manufacturer may deduct up to 2c per pound from the price which he would otherwise have paid for raw tobacco leaf of that grade if sold in hanked form and the total amount so deducted may be taken into account when calculating the average prices referred to in subclause (1).

(3) For the purpose of this clause the weight of any raw tobacco leaf shall be deemed to be its weight at the time and place of delivery by the grower to the manufacturer or to his agent in the district in which it is grown: Provided that the manufacturer may reject leaf in accordance with the provisions of the agreement between the grower and the manufacturer which relate to the moisture content of tobacco leaf at the time of its delivery to the manufacturer.

5. No raw tobacco shall be sold by the grower thereof or purchased from him at less than 20c per pound free on board ship Motueka or Nelson in the case of tobacco grown in the Nelson Provincial District, and in the case of tobacco grown in any other district at less than 20c per pound free on board ship or free on rail at the port or railway station which is nearest to the place at which such tobacco is grown.

6. No raw tobacco shall be sold by any person other than the grower thereof or purchased from such other person at less than 20c per pound free on board ship or free on rail at the port or railway station which is nearest to the place at which such tobacco is, at the time of sale thereof, being held or stored.

7. Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of clauses 5 and 6 hereof, the Tribunal may, in any case where it considers it proper so to do, authorise the sale and purchase of tobacco at a price less than the price fixed by either of those clauses.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of August 1969.

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

[L.S.] S. T. BARNETT, President
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.

*Gazette, 3 October 1968, Vol. III, p. 1719

(I. and C.)

Price Order No. 2114 (Insecticides, Herbicides, and Acaricides)

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. 2114; and shall come into force on the 28th day of August 1969.

2. (1) Price Order No. 2107* 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 “prevailing price” means, in relation to the sale of those insecticides, herbicides, and acaricides described in clause 4 of this order, the price at which each such insecticide, herbicide, or acaricide was sold by the same vendor on 26 June 1969, or, if no sale was made on that date, on the last preceding date on which any such sale was made by the vendor, subject to the same terms and conditions.