PRICE INCREASES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21362, 3 June 1939, Page 18

PRICE INCREASES

Tribunal Must Be Notified Goods and Services Indicated By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. June 2. Regulations requiring price increases for prescribed goods and services to first notified to the Price Investigation Tribunal were gazetted to-night. As already announced the tribunal is to have the powers of judicial inquiry and investigation under the Board of Trade Act. The regulations are to come into force next Friday. Persons engaged in selling goods in the schedule to regulations cannot sell them at a price above their ruling price to-day without first giving notice to the Tribunal of the higher price to be charged, and of the reasons for the increase. This notice is to be given by means of registered letter addressed to the Price Investigation Tribunal, Wellington. The same conditions are to apply, with necessary modifications, to rates of fees charged for the performance of prescribed services other than contract of service between master and servant. No notification of prices is required in the case of goods sold at a price fixed by other regulations under the Board of Trade Act, 1919, or the Motor Spirits (regulation prices) Act, 1933. The same applies to goods sold at public auction, goods of a perishable nature and goods sold as second-hand goods. It is an offence to attempt or conspire to do any act declared by the regulations to be unlawful. It is also declared to be an offence to incite, aid, abet, counsel and procure any other person to commit an offence against the regulations. Goods and services covered by the regulations are:— Goods Any article of food for human consumption and ingredients used in the manufacture of any such article, aerated waters, mineral waters and beverages, bags and sacks of all kinds, baking-powder, yeast and similar preparations, bran and pollard, brushes, brushware and brooms, candles, chinaware, earthenware and porcelain ware, cream of tartar, disinfectants, drapery and haberdashery, electric lamps, essences culinary or flavouring, floor coverings, footwear, fuel, furniture, glass bottles and glass jars, hardware, hollowware and ironmongery, insecticides and fungicides, matches, medicinal drugs and preparations, newspapers, paints, colours varnishes and similar materials, photographic cameras and photographic goods, polishes of all kinds, rennet, rugs, soap of all kinds, soap powder and extract of soap, sporting, gaming and athletic requisites, starch, stationery and paper, textile piece-goods, timber, tinware and tin manufactures, tobacco (including cigars and cigarettes), toilet preparations and perfumery, tools of all kinds, wearing-apparel of all kinds, wines, spirits and all other alcoholic beverages. Services Admission to entertainments, advertising, bricklaying, dressmaking, drycleaning, electric wiring, electro-plat-ing, freight and transport, laundering, painting, paperhanging. plumbing, printing, repair work of all descriptions, tailoring, vulcanizing.