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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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of his functions under these regulations shall be guilty of an
offence against these regulations and shall be liable accordingly.
57. Every person who incites, aids, abets, counsels, or pro-
cures any other person, or conspires with any other person,
to commit an offence against these regulations shall be guilty
of an offence against these regulations and shall be liable
accordingly.
58. Every person who fails to make in accordance with
these regulations any return required thereby or in pursuance
thereof, or who makes any such return which is false or mis-
leading in any particular, shall be guilty of an offence against
these regulations and shall be liable accordingly.
59. 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 Board of
Trade Act, 1919, shall be guilty of an offence against these
regulations and shall be liable accordingly.

PART VIII.--RETURNS.

60. On or before the 7th day of June, 1921, every grower
    of wheat shall make to the Wheat Controller a return showing,
    as at the 31st day of May, 1921,-
    (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 :
    (c.) The location of any such wheat which is stored or held
    elsewhere.
61. On or before the 7th day of June, 1921, every grower
    of wheat shall make to the Wheat Controller a return showing,
    as at the 31st day of May, 1921,-
    (a.) The estimated quantity of wheat, in bushels, which the
    grower has still unthreshed, the quantities of each
    variety of wheat to be stated separately :
    (b.) The probable date of threshing and delivery to the
    market.
62. In the case of all wheat remaining unthreshed on the
    31st day of May, 1921, the grower shall, within one week
    after the threshing thereof, make to the Wheat Controller a
    return showing the actual yield of each variety.
63. On or before the 31st day of March, 1921, every flour-
    miller carrying on business in New Zealand shall make to the
    Wheat Controller a return showing-
    (a.) His probable requirements of wheat for milling for the
    period between the 1st day of March, 1921, and the
    28th day of February, 1922.
    (b.) His carry-over of stocks of wheat, flour, bran, and
    pollard as at the 28th day of February, 1921.
64. Every flour-miller carrying on business in New Zealand
    shall, on or before the 15th day of each calendar month,
    commencing in March, 1921, make to the Wheat Controller
    a return showing full particulars of all wheat delivered to him
    during the last preceding calendar month in pursuance of
    purchases made by him.
65. The Wheat Controller or his duly authorized repre-
    sentative may require any person to give to him information
    relative to the sale or purchase of any wheat, whether by the
    person so required to give the information or by any other
    person, and it shall be the duty of such persons when required
    to give all such information in their possession accordingly.
66. In making all such returns as aforesaid the person by
    whom the return is to be made shall use such forms and give
    such additional particulars as the Wheat Controller may from
    time to time require.
67. (1.) Every person who, whether as principal or agent,
    and whether personally or through an agent, enters into any
    contract for the purchase of free wheat otherwise than from
    the Government shall, within seven days after the day of the
    making of the contract, make or cause to be made to the
    Wheat Controller a return of such contract containing the
    following particulars :--
    (a.) The names and addresses of the purchaser and seller :
    (b.) The date on which the contract was made :
    (c.) The class and quantity of wheat so purchased :
    (d.) The agreed date and place of delivery :
    (e.) The price of the wheat per bushel :
    (f.) The price of the sacks :
    (g.) Particulars of any terms or conditions which are not in
    accordance with the established custom of the trade
    at the date of these regulations :
    (h.) If the contract is made or evidenced by any written
    document, a copy of that document :
    (i.) A declaration made by or on behalf of the purchaser
    that the price of the wheat is not in excess of the
    maximum price as fixed at the date of the contract
    by any Order in Council made under the Board of
    Trade Act, 1919.
    (2.) Every Government broker shall, within seven days after
    the day of making of the contract, make or cause to be made
    to the Wheat Controller a return giving all particulars as to
    purchases and resales of wheat dealt with under section 17(2)
    of these regulations.
    (3.) Nothing in this clause shall render necessary a return
    of any contract for the purchase of wheat in any quantity
    less than 50 bushels, save that two or more contracts made
    by the same purchaser at or substantially at the same time
    (whether from the same or different sellers) shall be deemed
    to be one contract for the purpose of this exemption.

PART IX.-SEED-WHEAT.

68. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these
    regulations, a Government broker in purchasing wheat on
    account of the Government may, with the permission of the
    Wheat Controller, resell that wheat or any part thereof to
    the broker himself as seed-wheat at the price at which he
    purchased it for the Government with the addition of 1½d.
    per bushel.
69. No commission shall be payable to the broker in respect
    either of the purchase or resale of any wheat so dealt with.
70. The Government broker shall pay to the Government
    the purchase-money for all seed-wheat so purchased by him
    in cash on the delivery of the wheat to the broker in pur-
    suance of the contract.
71. In all other respects these regulations shall apply to
    any such resale by the Government to a Government broker
    in the same manner as if the Government broker were an
    independent third person purchasing the wheat from the
    Government through that broker.
72. Save with the permission of the Wheat Controller, it
    shall not be lawful for a broker who has so purchased seed-
    wheat to dispose of it in any manner otherwise than by the
    sale thereof as seed-wheat to farmers.
73. Any surplus of seed-wheat so purchased by a Govern-
    ment broker and undisposed of by sale to farmers before the
    close of the sowing season of the year 1921 may be demanded
    by the Wheat Controller for the Government, and shall
    thereupon be resold to the Government by the broker at the
    price hereinbefore prescribed for good milling-wheat sold to
    the Government for delivery in the month in which such
    demand was made by the Wheat Controller.

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

Board of Trade Regulations.--Maximum Price of Wheat.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of
March, 1921.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon him by section twenty-six of the Board
of Trade Act, 1919, His Excellency the Governor-General
of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby, on the recommendation of the New
Zealand Board of Trade, make the following Board of Trade
Regulations fixing the maximum price of wheat grown in
New Zealand.

REGULATIONS.
INTERPRETATION.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Board of Trade
   (Maximum Price of Wheat) Regulations, 1921.
2. These regulations shall come into operation on the day
   after the publication thereof in the Gazette.
3. In these regulations-
   "Wheat," "free wheat," and "good milling-wheat"
   mean wheat, free wheat, and good milling-wheat
   within the meaning of the Wheat Trade Regulations,
   1920, made on the 16th day of March, 1920, or the
   Wheat Trade Regulations, 1921, made on the date
   of this Order in Council under the Board of Trade
   Act, 1919:
   "Government price" means, in respect of wheat sold
   for delivery in any month, the price payable by
   Government brokers under the Wheat Trade Regu-
   lations, 1921, for good milling-wheat sold to the
   Government for delivery in the same month:
   "Miller's 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, 1921: