No. 98

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 3 OCTOBER 1974
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON: FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER 1974

Price Order No. 2293 (Butter)

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. 2293, and shall come into force on the 5th day of October 1974.

2. (1) Price Order No. 2171* is hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said price 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) Notwithstanding the revocation of Price Order No. 2171, any approvals given under clause 13 of that price order or any approvals deemed by clause 3 of that price order to continue to have effect as if the said price order had not been revoked.

3. (1) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,— “the said Act” means the Control of Prices Act 1947; “the said regulations” mean the Butter and Cheese Marketing Regulations 1948†.

(2) Terms and expressions defined in the said Act, or in the said regulations, when used in this order, have the meanings severally assigned thereto by the said Act or by the said regulations, as the case may be.

4. The grades referred to in this order shall, as the case requires, mean:

(a) Grades assigned at a grading store; or

(b) Grades assigned in a manufacturing dairy as prescribed by regulation 26 of the said regulations; or

(c) Grades constructively assigned pursuant to subclause (4) of regulation 26 of the said regulations.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

5. This order applies with respect to all sales in New Zealand by way of wholesale, or retail, of any butter (within the meaning of the said regulations) manufactured in New Zealand, except butter sold as ships’ stores for vessels sailing beyond New Zealand.

MAXIMUM PRICES FOR SALES OF BUTTER BY WAY OF WHOLESALE OR BY A MANUFACTURER TO A WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR, TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

6. Subject to the provisions of this order, the several maximum prices at which butter prepared in 454 gram packs or packs of equivalent weight or smaller portions may be sold by way of sale by wholesale shall be the following:

(a) In the case of salted creamery butter the standard quality of which is not lower than First Grade, the price of 31c per 454 gram pack or pack of equivalent weight or 18c per 250 gram pack.

(b) In the case of salted creamery butter, the standard quality of which is Second Grade, the price of 30.79c per 454 gram pack or pack of equivalent weight.

(c) In the case of whey butter the standard of quality which is not lower than Second Grade, the price of 26c per 454 gram pack or pack of equivalent weight.

7. The price of butter sold in bulk by way of sale by wholesale, being butter of one of the kinds and standards of quality set out in clause 6 of this order, shall be 0.104 of a cent per pound less than the respective price prescribed for butter of that kind and standard of quality by the said clause 6 hereof.

8. The price of unsalted creamery butter the standard quality of which is not lower than First Grade, and which sold, whether in bulk or pats, by way of sale by wholesale aforesaid shall be 1c per 454 gram pack or pack of equivalent weight more than the respective price prescribed for salted creamery butter by the foregoing provisions of clause of this order.

9. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this order, the price for any parcel of butter sold, whether in bulk or in pats, in a quantity of less than 48 lb, by way of sale by wholesale as aforesaid, being butter of one of the kinds and standards of quality set out in clause 6 of this order, may (at the option of the vendor) be the sum of 5c per parcel more than the appropriate price prescribed for butter of that kind and standard of quality by the foregoing provisions of this order, and the said sum of 5c shall be added to the rates referred to in clause 10 of this order for the purpose of that clause.