ICE CREAM
PRICE TO BE CHARGED
The Price Tribunal announced today that a retailer commits a breach of the Price Regulations if he charges more than Id, 3d, or 6d as the case may be for the customary Id, 3d, or 6d retail measure of ice cream, the prices to be inclusive of cone.: The retailer also is not entitled to reduce retail measure below the volume or weight supplied on September 1, 1939. The Tribunal added that the New Zealand Standards Institute was at g resent enquiring into the question of xing standards for retail measures of ice cream and was consulting the relevant trade interests and Government departments with a view to determining standards, to be incorporated in a price order which, it was hoped, would be issued in the near future. The products known to the trade as "ice cream novelty lines" have been dealt with separately. Following the operation of the higher rate of sales tax increases have been authorised in the maximum prices of 3d, 6d, and Is ice cream novelty lines to 3£d, 6£d, and ls Id respectively. The Id novelty lines, including ice blocks, however, are to remain unchanged at Id each.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 6
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ICE CREAM
Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 6
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