New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 91

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✨ Government Butter Purchase Notice

Numb. 91.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1920.

Purchase of Butter by the Government.

WHEREAS it is necessary that His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom
should acquire the whole of the butter manufactured in New Zealand during
the period hereinafter specified, saving only such supplies as may be required for local
consumption: And whereas arrangements have been made whereby the Government
of New Zealand will acquire on behalf of His Majesty’s said Government the supplies
of butter so required:

Now, therefore, it is hereby publicly notified as follows for the information of butter-
manufacturers and of all other persons concerned:—

The New Zealand Government (hereinafter referred to as “the Government”) is
prepared to purchase for and on behalf of His Majesty’s Government of the United
Kingdom the whole of the exportable surplus of butter delivered into grading-store
in New Zealand during the period commencing on the 1st day of August, 1920, and ending
on the 31st day of March, 1921, at the prices and on the terms and conditions hereinafter
set forth.
The following prices will be paid for butter delivered free on board steamer at
a customary grading port for carriage to the United Kingdom:—

Creamery Butter: Graded 88 points and over, 280s. per hundredweight. In the
case of butter graded below 88 points a reduction at the rate of 1s. 6d.
per hundredweight shall be made for each grade point or fraction of a
point by which the butter falls below 88 points.

Whey Butter and Dairy Butter: First grade, 261s. 4d. per hundredweight; second
grade, 256s. 8d. per hundredweight.

Milled Butter: First grade, 247s. 4d. per hundredweight; second grade, 242s. 8d.
per hundredweight.

The butter shall before shipment be examined and graded in a Government
grading-store in accordance with the usual course of trade, and may be rejected as not
being of good merchantable quality and condition, or as not being in conformity with
the terms and conditions of the contract in other respects.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1920, No 91

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1920, No 91

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

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🌾 Government Purchase of Butter for Export

Domain🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
KeywordsButter, Purchase, Export, Prices, Grading

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