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72. In all other respects these regulations shall apply to any such resale by the Government to a Government broker in the same manner as if the Government broker were an independent third person purchasing the wheat from the Government through that broker.

73. Save with the permission of the Wheat Controller it shall not be lawful for a broker who has so purchased seed-wheat to dispose of it in any manner otherwise than by the sale thereof as seed-wheat to farmers.

74. Any surplus of seed-wheat so purchased by a Government broker and undisposed-of by sale to farmers before the close of the sowing season of the year 1918 may be demanded by the Wheat Controller for the Government, and shall thereupon be resold to the Government by the broker at the price hereinbefore prescribed for good milling-wheat sold to the Government for delivery in the month in which such demand was made by the Wheat Controller.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917.

Office of the Board of Trade,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1917.

APPLICATIONS under the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, will be received by the Secretary, Board of Trade, Wellington, up to 31st December, 1917, from persons, firms, or companies willing to act as brokers for the Government in the purchase and sale of wheat of the 1917–18 harvest.

Applicants—
(1.) Must have been engaged in the grain trade as principals either as brokers or merchants, but not as flour-millers, continuously for one season during the past five years.
(2.) Must give such security as the Board of Trade may require for due performance of their contract with the Government and for due obedience of the Wheat Trade Regulations.
(3.) Must specify the district in which they desire to operate, such district being the geographical area in which it has been customary for applicants to operate in the past, and they will not be allowed to operate outside the district for which they are appointed.

J. W. COLLINS, Secretary.

Prohibiting the Exportation of Pork, Bacon, and Hams.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day of December, 1917.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, prohibit the exportation of any goods the prohibition of the exportation of which is, in his opinion, necessary in the public interest :

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is necessary in the public interest that the exportation of pork, bacon, and hams should be prohibited to the extent and in the manner hereinafter appearing :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby prohibit the exportation of pork, bacon, and hams, from the said Dominion save with the consent of the Minister of Customs.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.