No. 8 209

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 31 JANUARY 1974
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: FRIDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 1974

The Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meat) Notice 1974

PURSUANT to section 47A of the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Minister of Trade and Industry hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE

1. (1) This notice may be cited as the Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meat) Notice 1974.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 4th day of February 1974.

2. This notice shall apply to all fresh or frozen meat, being veal, beef, pigmeat, lamb, hogget, or mutton, and offals of any such meats, which is intended for human consumption and which is sold by retail (otherwise than by auction), but shall not apply to bacon, ham, mincemeat, sausage meat, saveley meat, tripe, lard, dripping, or suet.

3. Every retailer whose main business is the retail selling of meat to which this notice applies shall keep prominently displayed in his shop window, so as to be easily read by passers-by, and also in his shop in a prominent position, so as to be easily read by customers, a price list showing in respect of each class of such meat:

(a) The price per pound or, where the scales used by the retailer weigh in metric weights, the price per 100 grams or per kilogram; or

(b) 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. Every retailer of meat to which this notice applies, other than a retailer whose main business is the retail selling of meat, shall keep prominently displayed so as to be easily read by customers, and in close proximity to all meat to which this notice applies and which is offered or displayed for sale, a price list showing in respect of each class of such meat:

(a) The price per pound or, where the scales used by the retailer weigh in metric weights or where the prices of meat sold by him are weight-marked in metric weights, the price per 100 grams or per kilogram; or

(b) 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.

5. Every retailer, who offers or exposes for sale any joints or cuts of meat to which this notice 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.

6. In the case of any meat to which this notice 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 characters the retail price per pound or, where the scales used by the retailer weigh in metric weights or where the packs of meat sold by him are weight-marked in metric weights, the price per 100 grams or per kilogram.

7. For the purposes of clauses 3, 4, and 6 of this notice, the price per 100 grams may not be rounded off but shall be exactly one-tenth of the price per kilogram.

8. In any case where meat to which this notice applies is not readily identifiable with the description thereof set out in the price list 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 list.

9. The Control of Prices (Ticketing of Goods) Notice 1958, No. 1,* is hereby revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February 1974.

W. W. FREER, Minister of Trade and Industry.
*Gazette, 1958, p. 1828

The Control of Prices (Ticketing of Fish) Notice 1974

PURSUANT to section 47A of the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Minister of Trade and Industry hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE

1. (1) This notice may be cited as the Control of Prices (Ticketing of Fish) Notice 1974.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 4th day of February 1974.

2. This notice shall apply to all fresh, frozen, smoked, or otherwise preserved fish, including shellfish, sold by retail (otherwise than by auction), but shall not apply to canned fish or to cooked fish other than cooked crayfish.

3. Every retailer whose main business is the retail selling of fish to which this notice applies shall keep prominently displayed in his shop window, so as to be easily read by passers-by, and also in his shop in a prominent position, so