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SCHEDULE

DEFINITION OF METROPOLITAN AREAS

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 1973.

C. E. BEARD, Director of Distribution Division.

*Gazette, No. 105, 22 December 1971, Vol. III, p. 3038
(T. and I.)

Price Order No. 2255 (Cornsacks)

PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, I, Clifford Ernest Beard, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry acting under a delegation from the Price Tribunal, hereby make the following price order:

1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 2255 and shall come into force on the 21st day of December 1973.

2. (1) Price Order No. 2207* 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.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This order applies with respect to sales by way of retail of all cornsacks other than secondhand cornsacks sold in New Zealand.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF CORNSACKS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) The maximum retail price that may be charged or received for any cornsacks to which this order applies shall be determined as follows:

(a) When sold "ex wharf" at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, or Bluff: For 116 cm by 58 cm cornsacks, $4.39 per ten; for 122 cm by 67 cm cornsacks, $5.26 per ten.
(b) When sold "ex store" at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, or Bluff: For 116 cm by 58 cm cornsacks, $4.47 per ten; for 122 cm by 67 cm cornsacks, $5.34 per ten.
(c) When sold by a retailer carrying on business elsewhere than at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, or Bluff, the maximum price shall be the appropriate price fixed by paragraph (b) hereof, increased by the appropriate proportion of the freight charges incurred by the retailer in obtaining delivery from such one of the said places as is most convenient of access to his store; provided that, where any cornsacks to which this paragraph applies are obtained by the retailer elsewhere than from such one of the said places that is most convenient of access to his store, the increase authorised by this paragraph shall not exceed the appropriate proportion of the freight charges that would have been incurred by the retailer if the cornsacks had been obtained from that place and if delivery had been effected by the holder of a goods-service licence under the Transport Act 1962 at authorised rates.

(2) The maximum prices fixed by the last preceding sub-clause are fixed as for delivery f.o.r. or f.o.b. as the case may require.

(3) Where any cornsacks are delivered by a retailer otherwise than f.o.r. or f.o.b., the price that may be charged by the retailer shall be the appropriate price in terms of the foregoing provisions of this clause, increased by the amount of the freight charges incurred by him in effecting delivery, and then reduced by the amount of those charges that would have been incurred by him if he had delivered the cornsacks f.o.r. or f.o.b., as aforesaid.

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(4) Any freight charges imposed by a retailer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this clause shall be shown separately on the appropriate invoice.

PROVISION FOR SPECIAL PRICES WHERE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES INCURRED

5. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any retailer, may authorise special maximum prices for any cornsacks to which this order applies where special circumstances exist or, for any reason, extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the retailer. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of cornsacks, or may relate generally to all cornsacks to which this order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 1973.

C. E. BEARD,

Director of Distribution Division.

*Gazette, 19 December 1972, Vol. III, p. 2844
(T. and I.)

Subsidy on Sheep Meats

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Minister of Trade and Industry, the Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry has fixed rates of payments for subsidy on sheep meats in cents per pound as follows:

With respect to all claims, irrespective of area, for the period commencing 24 December 1973.
Lamb 4c per pound.
Hogget and wether mutton 7c per pound.
Ewe mutton 4.5c per pound.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December 1973.

C. E. BEARD,
for Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry.

No. 763

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by Waverley Publishing Co. Ltd. for a decision in respect of the book The Harem Omnibus, Anonymous, published by Holloway House Publishing Co., California.

A written submission was received from the applicant.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

The Harem Omnibus

This is a paperback book containing two short narratives, the first entitled The Lustful Turk and the second entitled A Night in a Moorish Harem. Each is anonymously written.

Each story is made up of a tedious sequence of descriptions of sexual encounters and experiences concentrating in particular on the defloration of young women. The over-riding emphasis upon sexual activity and the lack of any compensating social or literary merit render these tales indecent within the terms of the Act.

The Tribunal classifies this book as indecent.

R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.

6 December 1973.

No. 764

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by Denis William Shirley for a decision in respect of the book Over-Exposure by Denis William Shirley.

The applicant appeared but did not make submissions. Mr Barker, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the Secretary for Justice and made submissions.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

Over-Exposure

The definition of “book” in the Act means any book whether in manuscript or final form and on an earlier occasion the Tribunal considered a manuscript before publication, but in that case it consisted wholly of photographs.