Price Regulation Orders




31 MARCH

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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(b) The flour levy.
(c) The cost (if applicable) of sacks.
(d) The cost of sea freight or wharfage charges incurred in
obtaining delivery to retail store.
(e) The amount of any railage charges actually incurred
in obtaining delivery to retail store, provided that for
quantities of less than 254 kg (5 cwt) the amount
shall not exceed the proportionate amount of the
charge that would have been incurred on a 254 kg
(5 cwt) lot.
(f) The amount of any cartage charges actually incurred
in obtaining delivery to retail store, provided that the
amount so added may not exceed the proportionate
amount of the charge that would have been incurred
had delivery been effected at current transport rates
for delivery in not less than 254 kg (5 cwt) lots, or at
the authorised average charge for the area concerned.
(g) An amount calculated at the following rates:
(i) For flour or wheatmeal weighed out and packaged
by a retailer—
33½ percent of the sum of the foregoing items (a)
to (f):

Provided that the retail price shall be computed
as if the retailer had purchased flour in 36 kg or
40 kg bags and wheatmeal in 20 kg bags:

Provided also that if the price calculated in
accordance with this clause is not an exact number
of cents, the maximum price for the lot shall be
calculated to the nearest whole cent.
(ii) For flour and wheatmeal sold in the original
packages specified in clause 5 of this order—
10 percent of the sum of the foregoing items (a)
to (f):

Provided that if the maximum selling price calcu-
lated in accordance with this clause is not an
exact number of cents, the maximum price for the
pack shall be calculated to the nearest whole cent.

(iii) For flour or wheatmeal purchased by a retailer in
other than the original packages specified in clause
5 hereof, the retail selling prices shall be computed
as if the retailer had weighed out and packaged the
quantity himself from purchases of flour in 36 kg or
40 kg bags and wheatmeal in 20 kg bags:

Provided that if the maximum selling price cal-
culated in accordance with this clause is not an
exact number of cents, the maximum price for the
pack shall be calculated to the nearest whole cent.

  1. SPECIAL PRICES
    Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this
    order and subject to such conditions (if any) as it thinks fit, the
    Secretary, on application by the New Zealand Wheat Board
    or by any agent, wholesaler, or retailer, may authorise
    alterations in prices or percentage margins in respect of any
    flour or wheatmeal to which this order applies if special cir-
    cumstances exist or if for any reason extraordinary charges
    (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the New Zealand Wheat
    Board or by an agent, wholesaler, or retailer.

Any authority given by the Secretary under this clause may
apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of flour
or wheatmeal or may relate generally to all flour or wheat-
meal to which this order applies that is sold while the order
remains in force.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of March 1976.
M. J. BELGRAVE,
Director of Prices and Stabilisation Division.

[T. and I.]

Price Order No. 16 (Bread, Other than Bread Subject to Price Order No. 6)
PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, I, Maurice John Belgrave, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry, hereby
make the following order.

PRELIMINARY

  1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 16 and shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1976.
  2. (1) Price Orders No. 2196* and 2299† shall be revoked on the coming into force of this order.
    (2) The revocation of the said orders 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. 2196, any approvals given under clause 7 of Price Order No. 2196 shall continue
    to have effect as if the said order had not been revoked.
  3. In this order, unless the context otherwise requires—
    “Public Holidays” means Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, 2nd day of January, New Zealand Day, Good Friday, Easter
    Monday, Anzac Day, the Sovereign’s Birthday, Labour Day, and the holiday observed in the locality concerned as Anniversary Day; and
    includes, when any of the said public holidays (other than New Zealand Day and Anzac Day) that can fall on a Saturday or Sunday, so
    falls, the day that is observed in the locality concerned as a substituted public holiday; and also includes, when Boxing Day falls on a
    Monday, the day following Boxing Day.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

  1. This order applies to all bread (other than bread subject to Price Order No. 6) sold in New Zealand by a wholesaler or by a retailer
    and to the sale on Sundays or public holidays by any wholesaler or retailer of bread, being bread of any kind or class which is baked on
    Sundays or public holidays (other than bread subject to Price Order No. 6) but does not apply to bread sold on Stewart Island or to bread
    sold as part of a meal.

FIXING THE MAXIMUM PRICES OF BREAD TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

  1. Subject to the provisions of this order, the maximum prices which may be charged or received for any bread to which this order applies
    shall be the authorised wholesale or as the case may be retail prices lawfully applicable to the sale of bread on 31 March 1976 increased as
    follows:

Baked Weight Wholesale Price Retail Price
(cents) (cents)
Loaves weighing not less than 1 lb 8 oz .. .. 5 6
Loaves weighing not less than 1 lb .. .. .. 4 5
Loaves weighing not less than 14 oz .. .. 3 4
Loaves weighing not less than 12 oz .. .. 3 4
Loaves weighing not less than 10 oz .. .. 2 3

GENERAL

  1. A booking fee at the rate of one quarter cent (0.25c) per loaf for loaves of not more than 1 lb weight and one half cent (0.50c) per loaf
    for loaves exceeding 1 lb weight may be made for any bread sold by a retailer to which this order applies, provided that payment for the bread
    so sold has not been made prior to, or at the time of, the customer’s taking delivery of the bread at the shop.

  2. The maximum retail selling prices provided for in this order shall include the service of wrapping where this service is provided by the
    retailer.



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🏭 Price Order No. 15 for Flour and Wheatmeal (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
31 March 1976
Price regulation, Flour, Wheatmeal, Commerce Act 1975
  • M. J. Belgrave, Director of Prices and Stabilisation Division

🏭 Price Order No. 16 for Bread (excluding Price Order No. 6)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
31 March 1976
Price regulation, Bread, Wholesale, Retail, Public Holidays
  • Maurice John Belgrave, Director of Prices and Stabilisation Division