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(2.) Every person appointed as a Government broker pursuant to the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, and holding office on the making of these regulations, shall be deemed to have been appointed a Government broker under these regulations for the district for which he was appointed under the first-mentioned regulations.

11. Government brokers will be required to give to the Government such security as the Board of Trade may require for the due performance of their contract with the Government and for due obedience to these regulations.

12. (1.) The general control, supervision, and execution of this scheme of purchase and sale will be in the hands of a Controller appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and acting on behalf of the Government, and hereinafter called the Wheat Controller.

(2.) The person holding office on the making of these regulations as the Wheat Controller under the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, shall be deemed to have been appointed as Wheat Controller under and for the purposes of these regulations.

13. The headquarters of the Wheat Controller shall be at Christchurch.

14. (1.) There will be associated with the Wheat Controller an advisory committee to be known as the Wheat Trade Committee, and to consist of such representatives of the wheat-growers, flour-millers, and Government brokers as the Board of Trade may from time to time appoint.

(2.) The persons holding office on the making of these regulations as the Wheat Trade Committee under the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, shall be deemed to have been appointed members of the Wheat Trade Committee under and for the purposes of these regulations.

15. Every Government broker will be appointed for a particular district to be defined by the Board of Trade in appointing such broker, and it shall not be lawful for any such broker to purchase for the Government under these regulations any wheat grown elsewhere than in the district for which he has been appointed.

PART III.—PURCHASES OF WHEAT BY THE GOVERNMENT.

16. Government brokers will buy good milling-wheat on account of the Government at the following prices:—

A. Good milling-wheat grown in the South Island elsewhere than in the Provincial Districts of Nelson and Marlborough:—

1. Sold for delivery free on board at the nearest port—

(a.) In January, February, March, April, May, or June, 1919, 6s. 6d. per bushel.

(b.) In July, 1919, 6s. 6½d. per bushel.

(c.) In August, 1919, 6s. 7d. per bushel.

(d.) In September, 1919, 6s. 7½d. per bushel.

(e.) In or after October, 1919, 6s. 8d. per bushel.

2. Sold for delivery otherwise than free on board at the nearest port, a price equivalent as regards the seller to the prices aforesaid.

B. Good milling-wheat grown in the North Island or in the Provincial Districts of Nelson or Marlborough:—

1. Sold for delivery free on rail at the nearest railway-station—

The same price as that fixed by subclause A hereof for good milling-wheat grown in the South Island (elsewhere than in Nelson or Marlborough) and sold for delivery free on board at the nearest port, with an addition of 4d. per bushel.

2. Sold for delivery otherwise than free on rail at the nearest railway-station—

A price equivalent as regards the seller to the price aforesaid.

17. Government brokers will not purchase on behalf of the Government any wheat other than good milling-wheat: nevertheless it shall not be lawful for any person to sell wheat of any quality otherwise than to the Government until and unless it has been offered to a Government broker for sale to the Government in pursuance of these regulations, and has been rejected as unmerchantable or as not being good milling-wheat.

18. In these regulations “nearest port” means the port of entry under the Customs Act, 1913, nearest to the place where the wheat is grown.

19. Sacks will be paid for, in addition to the above prices, at the fair market value, not exceeding an amount less by 2d. than the maximum prices of sacks as fixed by an Order in Council of the 21st January, 1919, made under the authority of section 2 of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914.