New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 14

Page 379

✨ Government Purchase of Butter

Feb. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 379

Purchase of Butter by the Government.

WHEREAS for purposes connected with the present war it is necessary that His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom should acquire the whole of the butter to be manufactured in New Zealand during the present season, saving only such supplies as may be required for local consumption: And whereas arrangements have been made whereby the Government of New Zealand will acquire on behalf of His Majesty’s said Government the supplies of butter so required:

Now, therefore, it is hereby publicly notified as follows for the information of butter-manufacturers and of all other persons concerned:—

The New Zealand Government (hereinafter referred to as “the Government”) is prepared to purchase for and on behalf of His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom the whole of the exportable surplus of butter manufactured in New Zealand during the season commencing on the 1st day of September, 1917, and ending on the 31st day of July, 1918, at the prices and on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
The following prices will be paid for butter delivered free on board steamer at a customary grading-port for carriage to the United Kingdom:—

Creamery Butter: First grade, 157s. per hundredweight. In the case of second-grade butter a deduction of 6d. per hundredweight shall be made for each half-grade point by which the butter falls below first grade.

Whey Butter and Dairy Butter: First grade, 133s. 8d. per hundredweight; second grade, 129s. per hundredweight.

Milled Butter: First grade, 124s. 4d. per hundredweight; second grade, 119s. 8d. per hundredweight.

The butter shall before shipment be examined and graded in a Government grading-store in accordance with the usual course of trade, and may be rejected as not being of good merchantable quality and condition, or as not being in conformity with the terms and conditions of the contract in other respects.
The butter shall be shipped in good and merchantable condition at a customary grading port on board ocean steamer for direct carriage to the United Kingdom, and shall be consigned to His Majesty’s Government in the name of the Butter and Cheese Imports Committee, London, or in such other manner as the Controller of the Department of Imperial Government Supplies at Wellington may from time to time direct: Provided that in any case the Government may permit butter to be shipped at a customary grading port for carriage to and transhipment at another customary grading port on through bills of lading.
The bills of lading and grade-notes for all butter so shipped shall be delivered by the shipper to the said Controller.
In respect of all loss or damage from fire or other cause whatsoever the butter shall be at the risk of the seller until it is shipped in manner aforesaid.
The butter so shipped and consigned to His Majesty’s Government shall become the property of and be at the risk of His Majesty on shipment as aforesaid, and shall be paid for as soon as the bills of lading and grade-notes have been delivered to the said Controller; and a contract of sale and purchase on the terms and conditions herein set forth shall be deemed to be constituted by such shipment and consignment.
The butter when manufactured shall not contain less than 1½ per cent. or more than 2 per cent. of salt.
All butter supplied shall be free from adulteration of whatever nature, and the proportion of moisture shall not exceed 16 per cent.
In the case of creamery, whey, and milled butter, each box shall contain 56½ lb. weight of butter, including the weight of the enveloping parchment, and the net weight of the butter shall be charged and paid for as 56 lb. only. In the case of dairy butter, the weight of butter contained in each box, including the weight of the enveloping parchment, shall be ½ lb. in excess of the weight marked on the box, but the butter shall be charged and paid for on the marked weight.
All butter shall be packed in new export boxes made of thoroughly seasoned timber, lined with genuine vegetable parchment of double thickness, properly packed and secured.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1918, No 14

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