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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 28

Price Order No. 2227 (Retail Lamb, Hogget, and Mutton
Prices, Canterbury Meat Pricing District)

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. 2227 and
   shall come into force on the 9th day of April 1973.

2. (1) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “Abattoir district” means an abattoir district constituted
   in accordance with the Meat Act 1964.
   “The said specification” means the “New Zealand
   Standard Specification for grades and definitions of
   joints and cuts of meat for sale on the New Zealand
   market” numbered N.Z.S.S. 681:1962.
   “Canterbury Pricing District” means the Cities of Christ-
   church and Timaru and the Counties of Waipara,
   Ashley, Oxford, Eyre, Rangiora, Waimairi, Malvern,
   Paparua, Heathcote, Mount Herbert, Akaroa, Wai-
   rewa, Ellesmere, Ashburton, Geraldine, Mackenzie,
   Levels, Waimate, and Waitaki including all cities,
   boroughs, and town districts situate within or con-
   tiguous to the boundaries of any such county.

(2) References in this order to the kind, description, or
grade of any meat shall be deemed respectively to be
references to the kind, description, or grade of such meat
within the meaning and for the purposes of the said
specification.

(3) All fresh meat killed in an abattoir district and sold
or delivered to a purchaser during the currency of this
order shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be
meat of the grade indicated thereon by the distinctive grade
marking made pursuant to the said specification.

(4) All fresh meat killed elsewhere than in an abattoir
district and sold or delivered to a purchaser during the
currency of this order shall be sold at prices not in excess
of the appropriate prices fixed in this order for first grade
lamb, hogget, and first grade mutton had it in fact been
killed and graded in an abattoir district.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) This order applies only with respect to all retail
   sales of first grade lamb, hogget, and first grade mutton
   (whether fresh or prepackaged chilled meat) in the Canterbury
   Meat Pricing District of the kinds or descriptions specified
   in the Schedule hereto intended for human consumption
   and whether sold in an abattoir district or in a non-abattoir
   district.

(2) All meat sold or delivered to a purchaser during the
currency of this order shall be deemed to be intended for
human consumption unless it is sold for some other specific
purpose.

(3) The maximum prices fixed by this order apply with
respect to sales by auction as well as to other sales.

(4) The provisions of this order shall apply notwith-
standing that any meat to which this order applies is sold
otherwise than by weight.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT TO WHICH THIS
ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) The maximum retail prices of meat of the kind
   and descriptions specified in the Schedule hereto for the
   Canterbury Meat Pricing District shall be the appropriate
   price set against the respective kinds and descriptions in
   this Schedule.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the 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 retail prices in respect of any meat to
which this order applies where for any reason extraordinary
charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the retailer.
Any authority given by the Tribunal under this subclause
may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of
meat or may relate generally to all meat to which this
order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains
in force.

GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

5. (1) No additional charges shall be made by a retailer
   for wrapping any meat to which this order applies, or
   for trimming or other incidental and customary services
   performed in relation to the retailing of any such meat.

(2) If in respect of any lot of meat the maximum price
calculated in accordance with the provisions of this order
is not an exact number of cents, the maximum price of the
lot shall be computed to the nearest cent.

(3) Where a retailer sells any joint or cut of meat which
is not in accordance with any one definition in the said
specification because it comprises less than the total meat
included in any one definition or comprises meat included
in more than one definition, the maximum retail price per
pound of such joint or cut shall be computed on the basis
that the joint or cut comprises the kind, description, and
grade of meat included in the definition of which the joint
or cut forms part or to which the greater part of such joint
or cut conforms.

RETAILERS TO EXHIBIT PRICE ORDERS AND TICKET MEAT

6. (1) It shall be the duty of every retailer whose business
   relates to the selling of any meat to which this price order
   applies to keep a copy of the price order or a state-
   ment of the retail prices fixed thereby in respect of
   such meat prominently displayed in his shop in such a
   position that customers may examine the price order or state-
   ment without having to ask for its production or without
   having to obtain permission to examine it.

(2) Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any
joints or cuts of meat to which this order applies shall affix
to each joint or cut a ticket, placard, or label on which the
total retail price of the joint or cut shall be stated in legible
and prominent characters.

(3) In the case of any meat to which this order applies
which, in accordance with the customary practice within
the trade, is offered or exposed for sale, otherwise than by
the joint or cut, the retailer shall affix to or keep in a
prominent position in such proximity to the meat to which
it relates as to be obviously in relation thereto a ticket,
placard, or label showing in legible and prominent charac-
ters the retail price per pound or, where in accordance
with the customary practice within the trade the meat is
offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by weight, the price
per unit.

(4) In any case where meat to which this order applies
is not readily identifiable with the description thereof set out in
the price order displayed, the retailer shall affix to the meat
a ticket, placard, or label giving a description so that it is
readily identifiable with the description set out in the price
order.

SCHEDULE
MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF FIRST GRADE LAMB, HOGGET, AND
FIRST GRADE MUTTON MEATS

Kind of Meat

Lamb
First
Grade
per
Pound
(cents)

Hogget
Grade
per
Pound
(cents)

Mutton
First
Grade
per
Pound
(cents)

Description of Meat

Legs—
Whole Leg 55 53 52
Shank-end half of Leg 56 54 53
Thick-end half of Leg 55 53 52
Middle Fillet 55 53 52
Short Leg 55 53 52

Forequarters—
Whole Forequarter 34 32 31
Long Forequarter (Lamb only) 38 — —
Short Forequarter (Lamb only) 34 — —
Half Forequarter (Blade-end) 41 39 38
Half Forequarter (Shank-end) 39 37 36

Loin—
Loin whole 53 51 50
Middle Loin 55 53 52
Rib-end of the Loin 53 51 50

Chops—
Middle Loin Chops 59 57 56
Rib Chops 52 50 49
Ribloin Chops 59 57 56
Chump Chops 55 53 52
Leg Chops 58 56 55
Leg Cutlets (Lamb only) 69 — —
French Cutlets 63 61 60
Spanish Neck Chops 52 50 49
Neck Chops 33 31 30
Best-end Neck Chops 47 45 44
Forequarter Chops 50 48 47
Forequarter Cutlets 51 49 48
Flap Chops 16 14 13