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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

11. Cheese is to be free from any adulteration whatever, and shall be manufactured not less than fourteen days before packing.

12. The crates shall be marked with the actual cheese-weights, which shall be checked by the Government Grader, and payment shall be made on the Grader’s weights less 2½ per cent. for shrinkage.

13. No cheese will be purchased by the Government except from the manufacturer thereof.

14. (a.) If by reason of shipping-space being insufficient or for any other reason it is impossible for the manufacturer of any cheese to effect shipment thereof in accordance with the foregoing provisions within twenty-eight days after the receipt thereof in a Government grading-store, the Government will, on demand, make to the manufacturer an advance equal to 90 per cent. of the value of that cheese on the terms and conditions following.

(b.) Such advance shall be repayable on demand, and shall bear no interest.

(c.) Such advance shall be secured by the delivery to the Government of the store-warrants for the cheese in respect of which it is made.

(d.) No such advance shall be made except on the certificate of the Government Grader that the cheese is fit for purchase by the Government in accordance with the foregoing provisions.

(e.) No such advance shall be made until and unless the Controller of the Department of Imperial Government Supplies is satisfied that the cheese is covered by insurance against fire to the full extent of the advance in the name of the Crown.

(f.) Every manufacturer who accepts any such advance shall at all times prior to shipment of the cheese in manner aforesaid keep the same duly insured against fire to the full extent of the advance in the name of the Crown and to the satisfaction of the said Controller.

(g.) The acceptance of any such advance shall be deemed to constitute a contract between the Government and the manufacturer for the purchase and sale of the cheese in accordance with the foregoing provisions and for its shipment in manner aforesaid as soon as possible, but the cheese shall remain the property of the manufacturer and at his risk in all respects until shipment of the cheese by him in accordance with the contract.

(h.) The foregoing provisions as to advances shall extend and apply to cheese which is already in a Government grading-store at the date of these presents, and the period of twenty-eight days shall run from the day on which such cheese was received into the store.

15. If the average period for which the whole of the cheese supplied by any manufacturer to the Government under the foregoing provisions has remained in a Government grading-store (whether before or after the date of these presents) prior to shipment as aforesaid exceeds three calendar months, the Government will pay to the manufacturer, in addition to the price of the cheese as aforesaid, the storage charges incurred by that manufacturer in respect of that excess, but only at a rate not exceeding the rate current in respect of that grading store on the first day of January, 1918, save that in the case of new or altered stores the maximum rate shall be such as the Government thinks reasonable, having regard to the rates current in the case of other stores on the said first day of January, 1918. Save as provided by this clause, all storage charges shall be paid and borne by the seller.

16. In all of the matters aforesaid the Controller of the Department of Imperial Government Supplies will act on behalf of the Government.

17. If such supplies of cheese as the Government deems adequate for the necessities of His Majesty’s Government are at any time not obtained by way of contract of purchase and sale in accordance with the foregoing provisions, the necessary supplies will thereupon be obtained by seizure or requisition in the exercise of His Majesty’s prerogative, or in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, or the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1915 (No. 2), as the case may require.

Dated this 2nd day of February, 1918.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Imperial Government Supplies.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.