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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

respect of which the requirements imposed by clause 5 of the aforesaid notice had been complied with on or before that day.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1918.

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

Fixing the Maximum Price of Butter.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of April, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority conferred by the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, doth hereby fix and determine the maximum price of butter in New Zealand in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE maximum price of butter as sold by the manufacturer and delivered in boxes at the factory on the usual trade terms as established at the date of this Order in Council shall be one shilling and fivepence per pound.

2. In the case of butter sold in boxes by the manufacturer otherwise than for delivery at the factory on the usual trade terms as aforesaid, the maximum price thereof shall be a price equivalent as regards the seller to the maximum price above mentioned.

3. The maximum price of butter as sold by the retailer shall be one shilling and eightpence per pound.

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

Purchase of Butter by the Government.

WHEREAS it was notified in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th February, 1918, that the New Zealand Government was 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 therein set forth :

And whereas, in pursuance of the said notice, certain purchases of butter have been made by the New Zealand Government on behalf of His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom, and certain further supplies of butter are now in the grading stores pending the purchase thereof as aforesaid :

And whereas it appears that all butter of the said season’s manufacture not already in the grading stores, together with a certain proportion of the butter already in the grading stores, is required for local consumption within New Zealand, and therefore is not exportable surplus within the meaning of the aforesaid notice :

Now, therefore, it is hereby publicly notified, for the information of butter-manufacturers and of all other persons concerned, that no butter of a quality fit for local consumption will hereafter be made the subject of purchase by the Government or of advances by the Government under the aforesaid notice gazetted on the 4th day of February, 1918, unless it is in the grading stores on the day of the date of this present notice.

And, further, that no butter of a quality fit for local consumption and already in the grading stores on the day of this present notice, on which no advance has heretofore been made by the Government, will be made the subject of Government purchase or advance as aforesaid except such proportion thereof as in the opinion of the Controller of the Department of Imperial Supplies is not required for local consumption and is exportable surplus accordingly.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1918.

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