GENERAL PRICE ORDER

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26151, 29 June 1950, Page 6

GENERAL PRICE ORDER

Increases To Offset Higher Costs MORE CONTROLS LIFTED

From Our Own Reporter WELLINGTON, June 28.

A general price order will be gazetted to-morrow to enable traders and manufacturers to recover increased costs resulting from the recent interim wage order. A further list of commodities removed from price control was announced by the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr C. M. Bowden) to-day. Both these announcements have been awaited eagerly. The general price order will replace the order gazetted on May 16, which enabled traders to increase prices to the extent of the higher costs brought about by the abolition of subsidies and increased freight rates. To-morrow’s order will authorise the prices of most commodities to be increased to the extent that costs have been increased by the lifting of subsidies, increased freight charges, and higher wages. The order will take effect from to-morrow, but will relate only to goods the costs of which are increased because of the higher wages payable under the recent interim wage order. All such increases in price still have to be notified to the Price Control Division. In the form of a schedule to the general price order, there will be a further long list of goods, the prices of which cannot be increased without the prior approval of the Price Tribunal. Price Controls Lifted The list of items freed from price control contains a wide range of commodities. The full list is as follows: — Air conditioning, temperature control, and central heating plant and equipment; angle plates, corner repair, screw and glass plates; anvils, including swage blocks; apiarian appliances; bacon, meat, and bread slicing machines; baskets and basketware; barometers of all types; battery boxes; battery sealing compounds; bearings of all kinds, including plummet blocks; bedwarmers and heating blankets, electrically heated; binoculars and opera glasses of all types, and their cases; blackboards and timsonplate; blouses, other than woollen; brackets, angle, shelf, cornice, pole, curtain rod, and to\ drail.

Card and ticket-holder frames; calf feeders; galvanised case and crate strapping machines, including the strapping bands, seals, and wire peculiar to them; cash and deed boxes; cash registers and parts, including cash tills; castors of all kinds, including plate or truck and dome slides; cellulose; cement; chains of all kinds, including split or connecting links, swivels, harness, and dog chains; chalk.

Charges, fees, or rates payable in respect of the following services: advertising; car parking; children's nurseries; customs and forwarding agents; funeral and burial charges; glass bevelling and hole boring; land agents; opticians; saleyards; see (other than grain, unless otherwise exempted); cleaning; receiving, handling, and delivering; thfe servicing, repair, or maintenance of cash registers, office appliances, and machines and typewriters; stock exchange; storage, excluding cool storage; water supply; weighbridges; wool dumping. Clips, carpet and mirror, and mirror movement; clothes airers; clothes racks; cocks, traps, and strainers for steam; compounds for parting, jointing, brazing, and turning; compressors, air, and parts, including all pneumatic-operated equipment; concrete mixers; cork slabs for insulating purposes; cotton wastes; crucibles, parts and accessories; cups, castor and screw; curtain fittings of all kinds.

Deck chairs and other furniture made substantially of wood and canvas; decorated woodenware (including marquetry and poker work); diving suits and parts; dog food preparations and medicines; draining cleaning equipment; electric decoration sets, including coloured lamps; electro-medical and physical therapy equipment and accessories of all kinds, including X-ray equipment; explosives, detonators, and fuses.

Fans of all types; filter powders; filters, oil. and spare pads; fire alarm systems, including component parts; fluorescent and neon lighting units and parts and accessories: fcotrot liquid, sporting footwear. sporting (men’s, women’s, and children’s boxing, cricket, cycling, football, hockey, marching, running, skating, ski-ing, softball, and wrestling boots or shoes); forges, including blowers and fans. Gauge glasses, including mounts; glue and adhesives; gowns, dresses, or frocks (ankle length or longer, designed for use as evening, dance, wedding, or cocktail wear, in materials other than wool or woollen mixtures); graphite and plumbago; grit shell.

Handles, tool chest and cabinet, including drawer-pulls; hinges of all types; hire charges of all types, except hire of launches; hooks, cleat, cup, hat and coat, moulding, picture and screw; injectors and ejectors for steam boilers; iron jement.

Jacks of all types; plasterers’ laths; awn markers; tenses of all types; lithirge; lubricators, set and self-feeding

types, including grease cups; maize, including seed maize; metal, corrugated, fasteners, loose and in band form; meters of all types; microscopes and al) accessories; moulders’ chaplets, coregum and sand; mushrooms and mushroom preparations in all forms, canned and otherwise.

Horseshoe nails; nets, rabbit, ferret, and fishing; ophthalmic equipment and accessories. including ophthalmic and optical instruments of all kinds: engineers’ packing of all kinds, including asbestos and other insulation; packings, rubber insertion and cork packing; padlocks; paper, flat imnorted, as set out in Price Order No. 1070; picnic baskets and cases; pins, cotter and taper; piping, ammonia, and fittings; pulleys of all types.

Portmanteaux, wardrobe trunks, cabin trunks, carry-alls, overnight bags, satchels, folio cases, women’s handbags, wallets. and toilet compactums, irrespective of their materials: pumice sand; pumps, hydraulic, hand, or power-operated, including rams: railway sleepers; rattan, rattancore, seagrass, and raffia; refractory materials, excluding building bricks. Rings, poultry, pig, and bull, including cattle leads; sausage meal; screws of all kinds: seeds and bulbs, agricultural and horticultural, all varieties except seed wheat, seed barley, seed maize, and seed potatoes; shafting of all kinds, including couplings, keys, and bright bars; shimstock stands or holders for wrapping paper; stationery, including stationers' sundries; stays, bureau, lid; suitcases and attache cases, irrespective of the material used in their manufacture; surveying instruments, telescopes, and all accessories; thermometers; toilet salon equipment; torch bulbs; traps, rabbit and opnossum; trays.

Vehicles, horse-drawn, and component parts and harness of all types; washboards (including glass washboards); washers of all kinds; watering-cans, winches, hand-operated, including windlasses; wire, binding, brass, copper, florists’. mattress, picture, tinmen’s, and upholsterers’: woodenware, kitchen, excluding furniture; woodwool. Exemptions to General Order The schedule of exemptions to to-mor-row’s general price order—goods the prices of which may not be increased without prior application and approval—is as follows: Agricultural machinery and parts and accessories; apples and pears (fresh): asbestos products (including cement and fibre); automotive and industrial fuels, greases and oils; barley (feed and malting); bananas (fresh); bedding; beer, spirits, and wines; boxes and crates for butter and cheese; bran and pollard; bread; butter.

Casein; cases and containers (fruit and vegetable); cement; cheese (Cheddar in bulk under four months old); cigarette papers; clothing and textiles (unless otherwise exempted from Drice control, including apparel and softgoods, Paton and Baldwin wools, cotton and rayon dress goods, manchester goods, and Tootal soft furnishings): coal; cocoa, coffee, and chicory in all forms: cornsacks and woolpacks; cream (fresh and tinned). Eggs (duck and hen); fertilisers (inorganic); floor coverings (including linoleum and underfelt); flour and wheatmeal; footwear (unless otherwise exempted from price control): footwear repairs: furniture.

Gelatine; grain (cleaning, receiving, handling, and delivering charges); grapefruit and oranges (imported, and New Zealand-grown lemons other than Meyer); hairdressing charges; honey; hops: leather (in the form or substantially in the form in which it leaves the tannery); lime, linseed oil, lubricating oils, and fuel oils.

Macaroni, spaghetti, and vermicelli; malt and malt extract (with or without other constituents): margarine; matches; milk (condensed and fresh, and milk powders with or without other constituents); milking machine rubberware; motion picture theatres (admission charges); newspaper prices. Oatmeal and rolled oats (bulk): paints, varnishes, and lacquers; perambulators, pushchairs, and strollers; plywoods and veneers; potatoes (main crop and seed); poultry and chick mash; private hospital charges; ranges (electric, gas, solid fuel, and oil-burning, including rangettes); refrigerators (domestic); rice and ground rice; sewing machines (domestic): shipping fares and freights; soap and soap powders (all varieties, including sandsoap); steel (in bars, sheets, plates, angles channels, and all sections); sugar (including castor and icing, golden syrup, and treacle); sugar of milk (lactose). Tallow; tariffs (boarding-houses, bed and breakfast houses, and licensed and unlicensed hotels); tea; timber (New

Zealand milled indigenous and exotic); tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, and cheroots, including raw tobacco leaf): tyres and inner tubes (pneumatic) for motor vehicles and cycles; vacuum cleaners (domestic); vinegar: washing machines (domestic); water transport charges not covered by the Transport Charges Committee; wheat (Australian and New Zealand. North and South Island); yeast (in all forms).