S.I. No. 220/1949 - Soap (Maximum Prices) (No. 2) Order, 1949.

S.I. No. 220 of 1949.

SOAP (MAXIMUM PRICES) (NO. 2) ORDER, 1949.

I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942), (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946) as amended by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (Continuance) Act, 1948 (No. 18 of 1948)) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Soap (Maximum Prices) (No. 2) Order, 1949.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 2nd day of August, 1949.

2. References in this Order to selling shall be construed as including references to agreeing or offering to sell or to inviting an offer to buy.

3. A person shall not sell by retail any soap, soap powder, soap flakes, or soap chips of a class or brand mentioned in the Schedule to this Order at a price exceeding a price calculated at the appropriate rate indicated with respect thereto in that Schedule.

4. For the purposes of this Order any fraction of a halfpenny shall be regarded as one halfpenny.

5. Where a direction is given by the Minister in respect of any particular person or group of persons or in respect of any particular soap or classification of soap, the provisions of this Order shall, if and in so far as they are inconsistent with such direction have effect subject to such direction.

6. The Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949 ( S.I. No. 22 of 1949 ) is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM RATES OF RETAIL PRICES OF SOAP, SOAP POWDER, SOAP FLAKES AND SOAP CHIPS.

PART I

HOUSEHOLD SOAP.

Ref. No.	Class Brand of Household Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Prices.

	Carbolic Soaps	per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
1	Crean's Best Carbolic	0	11
2	Dixon's Best Carbolic	0	11
3	Dixon's Household Carbolic	0	9
4	Dolan's Best Carbolic	0	11
5	Dowdall's Pure Carbolic	0	11
6	Green Gross Carbolic	0	11
7	Klymax Carbolic	0	11
8	Lifebuoy	0	11
9	McCormack's Household carbolic	0	11
10	Safeguard Carbolic and Iodine	0	11
11	Warden carbolic	0	11
12	Wizard	0	11

	Household Pale Soaps	per 12 o
		s.	d.
13	Barrington's XX Best Tallow Crown	0	10
14	Crean's XX Tallow Crown	0	10
15	Dixon's Best Tallow Crown	0	10
16	Dixon's Household Pale	0	8
17	Dolan's XX Tallow Crown	0	10
18	Dowdall's XXX Tallow Crown	0	10
19	Dowdall's Finest Primrose	0	10
20	Favourite	0	10
21	Gerard's Pale	0	10
22	Gladiator	0	10
23	Green Cross Pale	0	10
24	Keltic	0	10
25	McCormack's Household	0	10
26	Revelation (Gerard's)	0	10
27	Ryan's Best Tallow Crown	0	10
28	Ryan's Finest Primrose	0	10
29	Ryan's Queen's Pale	0	10
30	Ryan's Household	0	7½
31	Sunlight	0	10
32	White Line	0	10

	Other Household Soap	per 12 ozs
		s.	d.
33	Blackthorn	0	8
34	Crean's Scouring Brown	0	9
35	Dirtshifter	0	9
36	Dixon's Pure White Curd	0	11
37	Dolan's Scouring Brown	0	1
38	McCormack's Scoring Brown	0	9
39	Ryan's Scouring Brown	0	9
40	Sambo	0	86½

PART II

TOILET SOAPS.

Ref. No.	Class Brand of Household Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Prices.
		per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
41	Arbutus	0	8
42	Buttermilk	0	6
43	Crean's Palm and Olive	0	6
44	Crean's sagefuard Toilet Carbolic	0	6
45	Delroi Cstile	0	8
46	Dixon's Toilet	0	6
47	Dixon's Toilet Carbolic	0	7
48	Dromona	0	7
49	Lifebuoy Toilet	0	6
50	Lux Toilet	0	6
51	Nabob Carbolic	0	6
52	Nova Oatmeal	10	8
53	Olevine	0	7
54	Ozene	0	6
55	Vega Coal Tar	0	8

PART III

SOAP POWDERS.

Ref. No.	Class Brand of Household Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Prices.
		per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
56	Ozene Granulated Soap Powder	0	5½
57	Persil	0	6
58	Rinso	0	5½
59	Snowhite	0	5½
60	Sola	0	6

		per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
61	Speed	0	2
62	Tip Top	0	2½
63	Titan	0	2½

PART IV.

SOAP FLAKES AND SOAP CHIPS.

Ref. No.	Class Brand of Household Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Prices.
		per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
64	Dromona	1	0

		per 3 ozs.
65	Lux	0	6
66	Notime	0	6
67	Ripple	0	6

		per 9 ozs.
		s.	d.
68	Ripple	1	5

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of July, 1949.

(Signed) DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.