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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 11

The Control of Prices (Positive Lists) Notice 1971

WHEREAS by subsection (1), section 18, of the Control of Prices Act 1947 (as substituted by section 3 of the Control of Prices Amendment Act 1953 and amended by section 2 of the Control of Prices Amendment Act 1956), it is provided that the Minister of Industries and Commerce may from time to time publish in the Gazette a list of goods and services for the time being subject to a price order or to a special approval under Part II of the Control of Prices Act 1947:

And whereas it is provided in subsection (2) of the said section 18 that on the publication of any notice under the said subsection (1):

(a) Every price order and special approval shall be deemed to be revoked to the extent to which it applies to any goods or services not referred to in the said list; and

(b) All goods and services not referred to in the said list shall be deemed to be exempted from Part III of the said Act:

And whereas the Minister is desirous of publishing in the Gazette, pursuant to the said subsection (1), this notice containing a list of goods and services for the time being subject to a price order or to a special approval under Part II of the said Act:

Now, therefore, the Minister pursuant to section 18 of the said Act, hereby gives the following notice:

1. This notice may be cited as the Control of Prices (Positive Lists) Notice 1971, and shall come into force on the 15th day of February 1971.

2. The goods and services referred to in the lists contained in the Schedule hereto are subject to a price order or to a special approval under Part II of the said Act.

3. For the purposes of this notice any reference to any goods in the lists contained in the Schedule hereto shall be deemed to include any component, part, or accessory intended or designed for the repair or improvement of those goods.

4. The Control of Prices (Positive List) Notice 1966, and amendments to that notice are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

LIST OF GOODS AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE CONTROL OF PRICES (POSITIVE LIST) NOTICE 1966 AND AMENDMENTS THERETO

(As at 14 February 1971)

Chemicals and Chemical Substances

Drugs and related commodities:

Drugs and any other substances and mixtures of substances specially prepared for use in the treatment, prevention, investigation, or alleviation of any disease, illness, or injury included in any drug tariff, or amendment issued pursuant to section 99 of the Social Security Act 1964.

Insecticides and herbicides:

Herbicides, insecticides, and acaricides specified in such Schedule as may be published in the Gazette from time to time by the Minister of Agriculture pursuant to the Department of Agriculture Act 1953 and the Agricultural Chemicals Act 1959; but shall not apply to any herbicide, insecticide, or acaracide packed in a container holding less than 1 gallon of liquid or less than 4 lb by weight of solid unless the herbicide, insecticide, or acarcicide is a restricted poison as so declared by regulation 4 of the Poisons Regulations 1964.

Druggists' sundries:

Bottles, glass, and jars and pots, chemists' stock. Bottles, jars and pots used in the packing or dispensing of drugs and for toilet preparations.

Fertilisers:

Inorganic fertilisers and ingredients, and fertiliser mixtures containing inorganic ingredients except when sold retail in quantities less than 1 cwt or of less than 10 gallons in the case of liquid fertilisers, and except inorganic fertilisers of the following kinds: Diammonium phosphate, calcium ammonium nitrate, alumino calcium phosphate, and copper sulphate. Serpentine rock.

Petroleum products:

Petrol. Diesel and fuel oil.

Foodstuffs and Related Commodities

Groceries:

Bananas.

Bread (except bread sold as part of a meal and bread sold in Stewart Island), customarily known as standard white bread, standard brown bread, starch-reduced bread, wholemeal bread, vienna bread, wheatgerm bread.

Butter manufactured in New Zealand, excluding butter when sold in portions not exceeding one ounce.

Cigarettes, excluding cigars and cheroots.

Cream, fresh.

Eggs, hen and duck.

Flour, including gluten, wheatmeal, and wholemeal but excluding self-raising flour, soya bean, and rye flour and excluding wheatmeal and wholemeal in packs of 12½ lb or less.

Milk, fresh.

Oranges, imported.

Intoxicating liquor:

(a) All intoxicating liquor sold in public bars of hotels, taverns, or other premises licensed under the Sale of Liquor Act 1962; and

(b) All draught beer in flagons, and bottled beer in bottles containing 1 quart, sold in hotels, taverns, or other premises licensed under the Sale of Liquor Act 1962, for consumption off the premises.

Stock food of the following kinds:

Bran and pollard excluding bran and pollard sold by distributors and retailers.

Sugar, excluding raw sugar and No. 3 brown sugar, castor sugar, icing sugar, loaf sugar, and coffee sugar crystals.

Tobacco, including raw tobacco leaf.

Wheat excluding seed wheat and wheat sold for use as stock food by distributors and retailers.

Yeast in all forms.

Hardware

Builders', plumbers', and electricians' hardware:

Basins in white earthenware (including vitreous ware) designed for fastening to a wall by means of brackets, with straight sides and front: nominal size 22 in. x 16 in. Insulators, other than plastic.

Pipes and pipe fittings, except pipe fittings of brass.

Sanitary earthenware, WC pans in white earthenware (including vitreous ware) pedestal type, 16 in. nominal height, whether fitted with S or P type trap with rimmed seat and with a base nominal size of 12 in. x 9 in., but excluding syphonic pans.

Wires, excluding bare copper, binding, and wire netting and also excluding insulated electrical wire and cables.

Miscellaneous hardware:

Bolts.

Metals, ferrous and non-ferrous, in ingot, billet, sheet, strip, bar, rod, tube, wire sectional shapes, and in any other primary or intermediary state, or in alloy forms (including aluminium, brass, copper, iron, steel, lead, zinc, tin, and tinplate), but excluding extruded brass rod.

Tubes and tubing, metal (excluding boiler, stay, and well sinker).

Wire, baling, barbed, fencing, and reinforcing, but not including wire netting, or insulated electrical wire and cables.

Vehicles and Equipment

Motor vehicles of the following kinds, including chassis and cabs therefor except accessories:

Cars.

Trucks, except "goods service vehicles" as defined in section 2 of the Transport Act 1962, and which have a manufacturer's gross laden weight of 10,000 lb avoirdupois or more.

Vans. Ranch and station wagons.

Equipment:

Pneumatic tyres and tubes, except retreaded and recapped tyres and except tyres and tubes for cycles, power cycles, and motor cycles.

Services

Charges, fees, rates, or commissions payable in respect of the following:

Egg distribution and handling. Gas supply. Wheat broking.