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APPENDIX B. ((.azetled Kith October, 1917.) Fixina Ihe Maximum I'rice of Butter. I. The maximum wholesale price of butter as sold by the manufacturer and delivered in boxes at the factory on the usual trade terms as established at the date of this Order in Council shall be one hundred and forty-nine shillings and fourpence per hundredweight. 2. In the ease of butter sold by Ihe manufacturer otherwise than for delivery at the factory in boxes on the usual trade terms aforesaid, Ihe maximum wholesale price thereof shall be a price equivalent, as regards (he seller, to the maximum price above mentioned. 3. In the case of butter sold otherwise than by the manufacturer, and whether wholesale or retail, the maximum price thereof shall be the maximum price mentioned in clause 1 of this schedule with such increase only as is in accordance with the established custom of the trade as existing at the date of this Order in Council with respect to the relation between the price of butter so sold and the wholesale price of butter at the factory. 4. Nothing in this Order in Council shall apply to butter destined by the purchaser for exportation and not for consumption or use in New Zealand. Exportation includes shipment as ship's stores. Prohibiting the Export of Butter and, Cheese. 1. No butter or cheese shall be exported from New Zealand unless it has been manufactured (whether before or after the date of tin's Order in Council) at a factory in respect of which an export license has been issued under l his Order in Council and is in force at the time of the shipment of the goods upon the exporting ship. 2. Export licenses under this Order in Council may be granted by the licensing authority hereinafter mentioned lo any company, firm, or person engaged in the manufacture of butter or cheese, in respect of the factory or factories of that company, firm, or person. 3. Every such export license shall be revocable at the will of the said licensing authority. 4. In the grant, refusal, or revocation of such licenses the licensing authority shall not differentiate between the factories of different companies, firms, or persons save by reason of the refusal or failure of any company, firm, or person to accept or fulfil the terms and conditions of the grant or continuance of export licenses under this Order in Council. 5. An export license shall be granted only on the terms that the licenseholder undertakes to pay to the Crown the charge heieinaftei specified on ail butter-fat consumed by the licenseholder in the manufacture of butter or cheese al any factory or factories during the continuance of his license, and also on all butter-fat which has been already consumed by the licenseholder in the manufacture of butter and cheese at any factory or factories in the interval between the 31st day of August, 1916, and the first grant to him of an export license. 6. The aforesaid charge shall be at ihe rale of |d. per pound of butter-fat,, or at such greater or smaller rate as may from time to lime be determined by the licensing authority with the approval of the Board of Trade established under the Cost of Living Act, 1915; provided that any such alteration of ihe charge shall take effect only with respect to butter-fat consumed after tbe date on which such alteration has been notified by the publication thereof in the Gazette by the licensing authority. 7. 'fhe said charge shall be payable lo the licensing authority on behalf of the Crown at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by the export license. 8. (1.) All moneys paid by way of the charge aforesaid shall be credited to a, deposit account by the licensing authority, and shall be available in the hands of that authority for expenditure, with the approval of the said Board of Trade, on the following purposes : — (a.) The payment from lime to time of the expenses incurred by the licensing authority or by any Department of tho Government, or by the Board of Trade, in administering the system ol' export licenses hereby established. (&-.) The distribution from time to time among the several holders of export licenses of such sums as may be deemed justly payable in order to compensate those holders for any loss incurred by them in disposing of butter of their own manufacture for home consumption instead of for export, during any period in respect of which the aforesaid charge on butter-fat has been paid by them. (c.) In refunding to the payers of the charge all sums not expended for the aforesaid purposes. : (2.) The determination of the Hoard of Trade as to the expenditure of such moneys shall for all purposes be final and conclusive. 9. Every export license shall be issued on the terms that, if any dispute arises between the licenseholder and the licensing authority as to the amount of the charge to be paid by the licenseholder, the dispute shall be referred to the said Board of Trade, whose decision thereon shall lie final. 10. Every export license shall be issued on the terms that the licenseholder shall from time to time make to the licensing authority such returns relative to the business of the licenseholder as that authority may from time to time require for the purposes of this Order in Council, those returns to be verified by statutory declaration if and so far as the licensing authority so requires. 11. Every export license may lie issued on such further terms and conditions as the licensing ..authority considers necessary for the effective administration of this Order in Council. - 12. No export, license shall be granted to any company, firm, or person until that company, firm, or person has entered into a written agreement with the licensing authority, on behalf of the Crown, to pay the said charge and to observe and perform all the terms and conditions of the license.