New Zealand Gazette – 1979 – No. 95

Page 3005

✨ Price Order for Apples



No. 95 3005

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER 1979
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: MONDAY, 15 OCTOBER 1979

Price Order No. 144 (North American Red Delicious Apples)

PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, I, Desmond James Gasson, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry, hereby make the following price order:

  1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 144 and shall come into force on the 16th day of October 1979.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

  1. This order applies with respect to North American Red Delicious Apples sold by way of retail in New Zealand.

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

  1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for any North American Red Delicious Apples shall be:

$1.49 a kilogram.

(2) If in respect of any lot of apples sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an exact number of cents, the maximum price of the lot may be computed to the nearest whole cent.

SPECIAL PRICES WHERE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES INCURRED

  1. Subject to such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit, the Secretary, on application by any retailer, may authorise special prices in respect of any North American Red Delicious Apples 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 Secretary under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of apples or may relate generally to all North American Red Delicious Apples to which this order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains in force.

DUTY IMPOSED ON RETAILERS

  1. Every retailer who offers or exposes any North American Red Delicious Apples for sale in any shop shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the apples 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 a kilogram.

(b) The words “North American Red Delicious Apples”.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of October 1979.

D. J. GASSON,
Director, Stabilisation of Prices and Enforcement.

(T. and I.)



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🏭 Price Order No. 144 for North American Red Delicious Apples

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
11 October 1979
Price regulation, Apples, Retail pricing, North American imports
  • Desmond James Gasson, Director, Stabilisation of Prices and Enforcement