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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 121

Price Order No. 2252 (Wire Products Manufactured by G.K.N. (New Zealand) Ltd.)

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. 2252 and shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1974.

2. (1) Price Order No. 2246* 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 the expression “f.o.r.” means “free on rail”.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This order applies with respect to the wire products manufactured by G.K.N. (New Zealand) Ltd. of the several kinds specified in the First Schedule hereto.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF WIRE PRODUCTS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Manufacturer’s Prices

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause the maximum factory selling price that may be charged or received by G.K.N. (New Zealand) Ltd. for any wire products to which this order applies shall be the appropriate price fixed in the First Schedule hereto:
   Provided that where the quantity of wire of one kind or more than one kind ordered by the buyer for delivery to any one destination outside the Auckland metropolitan area is less than 10 tonnes, the prices specified in the First Schedule may be increased by an amount not exceeding the difference between any railage rate per tonne that would have been incurred by G.K.N. (New Zealand) Ltd. in delivering in lots of 10 tonnes or more and the railage rate per tonne that would be incurred in delivering the lesser quantity from Otahuhu to the freight paid point nearest to the destination to which the wire is to be delivered;
   And provided further that any such price may be increased where applicable by the appropriate extra charges referred to in the Second Schedule hereto.

(2) The maximum prices as aforesaid are fixed for deliveries as follows:
(a) f.o.r. Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Masterton, Lower Hutt, Porirua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Invercargill.
(b) Landed on wharf at Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Nelson, Greymouth, Dunedin, and Bluff.
(c) Sales not served by the freight paid points mentioned in (a) and (b) to be on the basis of f.o.r. Otahuhu or f.o.r. nearest freight paid point at buyer’s option except that in the Auckland metropolitan area sales may, at the buyer’s option, be ex works Otahuhu or on the basis of delivered to store at the company’s approved basic prices plus an addition of $1.80 per tonne thereto.
(d) The Auckland metropolitan area is defined as follows:
The cities of Auckland and Takapuna, the boroughs of Henderson, New Lynn, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Mount Roskill, Onehunga, Newmarket, One Tree Hill, Ellerslie, Mount Wellington, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe, and Papakura, the commercial centre of Pakuranga and all commercial areas along or adjacent to the Great South Road between Otahuhu and Papakura not otherwise included.

6. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit the Tribunal may authorise special prices in respect of any wire to which this order applies where special circumstances exist.

FIRST SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM FACTORY SELLING PRICE OF WIRE PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED BY G.K.N. (NEW ZEALAND) LTD.

Maximum Prices per Tonne for Deliveries of 5 Tonnes or Over for Each Type of Wire

SECOND SCHEDULE

EXTRAS FOR QUANTITY AND QUALITY

Quantity of each type of wire—

Gauges can be combined to obtain 5 tonne rates.

Quality—
Galvanised wire Type B to New Zealand Standard Specification 143:
Type A price, plus $1.00 per tonne.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December 1973.

The seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—
[L.s.]

K. R. CONGREVE, President.
M. A. HERCUS, Member.
A. J. McDONALD, Member.
F. F. SIMMONS, Member.

(T and I)

*Gazette, 1 November 1973, Vol. III, p. 2272