Wheat Trade Regulations




or when any dispute arises as to whether any wheat delivered in fulfil-
ment of any contract of purchase or sale entered into by Government
brokers on account of the Government is in accordance with the contract
in respect of kind, quality, or condition, the dispute shall be determined
by a Government grader appointed for this purpose by the Board of
Trade, and his decision shall be final.

  1. When any dispute, other than as mentioned in the last preceding
    clause, arises between the parties to any contract entered into by a
    Government broker on account of the Government, or between a Govern-
    ment broker and the Government, or between a Government broker and
    any seller or purchaser of wheat to or from the Government, touching
    the meaning or operation of these regulations or of any contract so
    entered into, the dispute shall be determined by the Wheat Controller,
    whose decision shall be final.

  2. Nothing in the last two preceding clauses shall apply to any pro-
    secution for an offence against these regulations.

  3. (1.) Subject to the foregoing provisions as to the settlement of
    disputes, the following weights shall be accepted by all parties as the basis
    of settlement in all contracts for the purchase or sale of wheat by or to
    the Government:

Wheat delivered direct to a mill—flour-millers’ weights :
Wheat delivered free on board—customary free-on-board weights :
Wheat delivered ex store either to mills or free on board—ex-store
weights.

(2.) The only deduction from such weights shall be 3 lb. tare per sack.

PART VII.—OFFENCES.

  1. Every person shall be guilty of an offence against these regula-
    tions, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accord-
    ingly, who does or attempts or conspires to do any act declared by these
    regulations to be unlawful.

  2. Every Government broker shall be guilty of an offence against
    these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act,
    1914, accordingly, who commits any wilful breach of his contract with
    the Government under these regulations.

  3. Every seller of wheat to the Government or purchaser of wheat
    from the Government under these regulations who commits a wilful
    breach of his contract with the Government shall be guilty of an offence
    against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations
    Act, 1914, accordingly.

  4. Every person who, being a servant or agent of any Government
    broker or of any such seller or purchaser of wheat, wilfully does any
    act whereby or in consequence of which such Government broker, seller,
    or purchaser breaks his contract with the Government shall be guilty of
    an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War
    Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

  5. Every person who deceives or attempts to deceive a Government
    broker or the Wheat Controller in the exercise of his functions under
    these regulations shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations,
    and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

  6. Every person who incites, aids, abets, counsels, or procures any
    other person, or conspires with any other person, to commit an offence
    against these regulations shall be guilty of an offence against these regu-
    lations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accord-
    ingly.

  7. Every person who fails to make in accordance with these regula-
    tions any return required thereby or in pursuance thereof, or who makes
    any such return which is false or misleading in any particular, shall
    be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under
    the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

  8. Every person who, whether as principal, agent, or otherwise, sells
    or purchases, or agrees or offers to sell or purchase, wheat at a price in
    excess of the maximum price thereof as determined for the time being
    under the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, shall be guilty
    of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War
    Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

PART VIII.—RETURNS.

  1. On or before the 7th day of June, 1919, every grower of wheat
    shall make to the Wheat Controller a return showing, as at the 31st day
    of May, 1919—

(a.) The number of bushels of each variety of wheat grown by him
and threshed but not yet sold and delivered :

(b.) How much of such wheat still lies on the grower's farm:



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1919, No 21


NZLII PDF NZ Gazette 1919, No 21





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🏭 Fixing the Maximum Price of Wheat of the Season 1918–1919 (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Wheat, Trade Regulations, Government Purchase, Sale, War Regulations Act