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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 59

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) 32 cents cartage allowance per carton.
(c) 33⅓ percent of item (a) for apples and 37½ percent for pears.

(I) For sales of apples and pears in less than bulk container lots purchased by a retailer in bulk returnable containers as follows:

Where the scales used by the retailer weigh in imperial or metric weights—
The sum of the following items (a) to (c) :

(a) The price as charged by the board.
(b) Cartage costs incurred in taking delivery.
(c) 40 percent of item (a) for apples and 45 percent in respect of 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 the application by any licensed distributor or retailer, may authorise an addition to the maximum prices fixed from time to time in respect of 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 25th day of May 1977.

P. E. DONOVAN,
Director of Prices and Stabilisation Division.

†New Zealand Gazette, No. 89, 27 December 1973, p. 1838.
*New Zealand Gazette, No. 100, 10 October 1974, p. 2163

Price Order No. 57 (Wire Products Manufactured by New Zealand Wire Industries Ltd.)

PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, I, Peter Edward Donovan, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry, hereby make the following price order:

PRELIMINARY

1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 57 and shall come into force on the 27th day of May 1977.

2. (1) Price Order No. 41 is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said 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. In this order the expression “f.o.r.” means “free on rail”.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. This order applies with respect to the wire products manufactured by New Zealand Wire Industries Ltd. of the several kinds specified in the First Schedule hereto.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF WIRE PRODUCTS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

Manufacturer’s Prices

5. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause the maximum factory selling price that may be charged or received by New Zealand Wire Industries Ltd. for any wire products to which this order applies shall be the appropriate price fixed in the First Schedule hereto:

Provided that where the quantity of wire of one kind or more than one kind ordered by the buyer for delivery to any one destination outside the Auckland metropolitan area is less than 10 tonnes, the prices specified in the First Schedule may be increased by an amount not exceeding the difference between any railage rate per tonne that would have been incurred by New Zealand Wire Industries Ltd. in delivering in lots of 10 tonnes or more and the railage rate per tonne that would be incurred in delivering the lesser quantity from Otahuhu to the freight paid point nearest to the destination to which the wire is to be delivered;

And provided further that any such price may be increased where applicable by the appropriate extra charges referred to in the Second Schedule hereto.

(2) The maximum prices as aforesaid are fixed for deliveries as follows:

(a) f.o.r. Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Masterton, Lower Hutt, Porirua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Invercargill.

(b) Landed on wharf at Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Nelson, Greymouth, Dunedin, and Bluff.

(c) Sales not served by the freight paid points mentioned in (a) and (b) to be on the basis of f.o.r. Otahuhu or f.o.r. nearest freight paid point at buyer’s option except that in the Auckland metropolitan area sales may, at the buyer’s option, be ex works Otahuhu or on the basis of delivered to store at the company’s approved basic prices plus an addition of $2.50 per tonne thereto.

(d) The Auckland metropolitan area is defined as follows:

The cities of Auckland and Takapuna, the boroughs of Henderson, New Lynn, Mount Albert, Mount Roskill, Onehunga, Newmarket, One Tree Hill, Ellerslie, Mount Wellington, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe, and Papakura, the commercial centre of Pakuranga and all commercial areas along or adjacent to the Great South Road between Otahuhu and Papakura not otherwise included.

6. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this order and subject to such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit the Secretary may authorise special prices in respect of any wire to which this order applies where special circumstances exist.