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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 30

“Millers’ price” means, in respect of wheat sold for delivery in any month, the price receivable by Government brokers for good milling-wheat sold by them on account of the Government for delivery in the same month in accordance with the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1920:

“Nearest port” means the port of entry under the Customs Act, 1913, nearest to the place in which the wheat is grown.

2. When wheat is sold without express provision as to the month of delivery, it shall be deemed to have been sold for delivery in the month in which the contract is made, and the maximum price shall be determined accordingly.

WHEAT INFERIOR TO GOOD MILLING-WHEAT.

3. The maximum price of free wheat inferior in quality to good milling-wheat, when sold by the grower, shall be a price equivalent as regards the grower to the Government price of Tuscan wheat for the same month of delivery, less 2d. per bushel.

4. (1.) The maximum price of free wheat inferior in quality to good milling-wheat, when sold wholesale by millers, brokers, or other purchasers from the growers free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station on the usual trade terms as established at the date of this Order in Council, shall be the Government price for good milling-wheat of Tuscan variety, delivered free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station in the same month, less Id. per bushel.

(2.) When sold otherwise than free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station on the said trade terms, the maximum price shall be a price equivalent as regards the seller to the maximum price aforesaid.

5. The maximum price of wheat inferior in quality to good milling-wheat when sold retail for delivery in any month by any person other than the grower shall be the same as the price lawfully payable for similar wheat of Tuscan variety when sold wholesale by millers, brokers, or other purchasers from the growers for delivery in the same month free on board at Lyttelton on the usual trade terms, with the following additions only to such lawful price—namely, an addition of 15 per cent., together with a further addition of the transit charges actually paid by the retail seller of such wheat.

GOOD MILLING-WHEAT.

6. (1.) The maximum price of free wheat being good milling-wheat (other than machine-dressed wheat), when sold for delivery free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station on the usual trade terms as established at the date of this Order in Council, shall be the millers’ price for good milling-wheat of the same description delivered free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station in the same month, with an addition of 5d. per bushel.

(2.) When sold otherwise than free on board or rail at the nearest port or railway-station on the usual trade terms as aforesaid, the maximum price shall be a price equivalent as regards the seller to the maximum price aforesaid.

MACHINE-DRESSED SEED WHEAT.

7. The maximum price of machine-dressed seed wheat shall be the maximum price fixed by the last preceding clause, with the further addition of 5d. per bushel.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

War Regulations as to the Sale and Purchase of Wheat.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, 1920.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty-five of the War Legislation Act, 1917, the Governor-General in Council is empowered to make, by regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914, such provisions as, having regard to the conditions created by the recent war with Germany, he thinks advisable for the maintenance, control, regulation, and management of any industry, business, or undertaking which he regards as essential for the public welfare: