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(B) For sales of less than carton lots of apples or pears purchased by a retailer in 30 lb cartons packed by the Board:

The amount per pound arrived at by dividing the sum of the following items (a) to (c) by 30:

(a) The list price.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per 30 lb carton.
(c) 40 percent of item (a) for apples and 45 percent in respect of pears.

(C) For sales of less than case of carton lots of apples or pears purchased by a retailer as follows:

(i) Loose apples in apple bushel cases or apple bushel cartons.
(ii) Loose pears in pear bushel cases or pear bushel cartons.

The amount per pound arrived at by dividing the sum of the following items (a) to (c) by 31:

(a) The list price.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per bushel case or bushel carton.
(c) 40 percent of item (a) in respect of apples and 45 percent in respect of pears.

(D) For sale of less than carton lots of apples purchased by a retailer in traypack cartons:

The amount per pound arrived at by dividing the sum of the following items (a) to (c) by 41.5:

(a) The list price.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per traypack carton.
(c) 40 percent of item (a).

(E) For sales of case or carton lots of the following kinds:

(i) Apples packed in apple bushel cases and in apple bushel cartons.
(ii) Pears packed in pear bushel cases or pear bushel cartons.
(iii) Loose pears in apple bushel cases or apple bushel cartons.
(iv) Apples packed in traypack cartons.

The sum of the following items (a) to (c):

(a) The list price.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per bushel case, bushel carton, or traypack carton.
(c) 50 cents per bushel case, bushel carton or traypack carton.

(F) For sales of case or carton lots of the following kinds:

(i) Loose apples in apple bushel cases or apple bushel cartons.
(ii) Loose pears in pear bushel cases or pear bushel cartons.
(iii) Apples or pears packed by the Board in 30 lb cartons.

The sum of the following items (a) to (c):

(a) The list price.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per bushel case or bushel carton.
(c) 41 cents per bushel case or bushel carton.

(G) For sales of apples and pears in bags packed by the Board:

The amount per bag arrived at by dividing the sum of the following items (a) to (c) by the number of bags contained in the carton supplied to the retailer by the Board:

(a) The list price per carton exclusive of carton surcharge.
(b) 16 cents cartage allowance per carton.
(c) 33⅓ percent of item (a) for apples and 37½ percent for pears.

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

5. Every retailer who offers or exposes any apples or pears for sale shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the apples or pears to which it relates as to be obviously descriptive thereof, a ticket, placard, or label on which shall be stated in legible and prominent characters the following particulars:

(a) The retail price calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the price order.
(b) The variety, grade, and size group of the apples and pears displayed for sale.

PROVISION FOR SPECIAL PRICES

6. Subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Price Tribunal, on application by any licensed distributor or retailer, may authorise an addition to the maximum prices fixed from time to time in respect to any apples and pears 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 apples and pears or may relate generally to all apples and pears to which this order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of September 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.

Environmental Impact Report Notified—Kapuni to New Plymouth Gas Line

THE Commission for the Environment gives notice that it has received an environmental impact report on the Kapuni to New Plymouth gas line, being a project to pipe natural gas from the Kapuni field to the New Plymouth power station. Representations in writing on the environmental aspects of this project, as it is explained in the report, will be received at the office of the Commission, P.O. Box 12–042, Wellington, until Friday, 26 October 1973.

Copies of the environmental impact report may be obtained at the office of the Commission for the Environment, 53 Murphy Street, Wellington, or from the Resident Engineer, Ministry of Works, Atkinson Building, New Plymouth, or Ministry of Works, Head Office, Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of September 1973.

J. M. BAMFORD,
Assistant Commissioner for the Environment.

(Env. 8/20)

Producers' Representatives on Hop Marketing Committee Elected—(Notice No. 562 Ag. 60546)

PURSUANT to clause 20 of the Schedule to the Hop Marketing Regulations 1939, notice is hereby given that the five persons having been duly nominated for election to the office of producers’ representative on the Hop Marketing Committee, I do declare

McGlashen, Bruce Herbert,
Hill, Joseph Thomas,
Cole, Maurice Sidney,
Inglis, Jeffrey MacGlashen,
Waters, Robert Alexander,

being the persons so elected, to be duly elected as producers’ representatives.

Dated at Nelson this 14th day of September 1973.

S. J. UREN, Returning Officer.

Declaration of Result of Election of Potato Growers' Representative on the Potato Board

I, Neil John McHugh, Returning Officer of the Potato Board Election, do hereby declare that Walter McKechnie Williams, being the only person nominated to represent the Northern Ward on the Potato Board, is elected a member of the Board as from the 26th day of September 1973.

N. J. McHUGH, Returning Officer, Potato Board Election.

The Standards Act 1965—Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

PURSUANT to section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 21 September 1973, declared the undermentioned specification to be a standard specification:

Price of Copy
Number and Title of Specification (Mailed)
$NZS 8403: 1973 Grades of meat, and definitions of cuts of meat for sale on the New Zealand market..... 3.30

Copies of the standard specification may be ordered from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center 15–23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington 1.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of September 1973.

T. S. WARD, Deputy for the Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.

(SA 1–114/2/2: 482)