The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-12-28
Forwer Regulations Are Changed
and New Ones Are Announc- L
ed At Chicago Meeting Il

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CHICAGO, December 5--The Food
Administrations Sugar Distributing Com
mittee has issued new set of rules
and regulations TO the trade under its
Jurisdiction. Some Of the new rules
cover new points which have arisen un-
der the practical workings Of its dis
tribution plans, others are modifica-
tons Of or substitutes for regulations
previously issued. 4IIbt
Differentials and Terms
Among the old rules cancelled are
those relating to freight .differentials,
4 terms of shipment, differentials on
package goods, and invoices and reports
of sales The new rules on these mat
tiers are as follows: MA 5st &
Freight Differentials--Apply prepaid
basing rates from Atlantic or Gulf sea-
board refining points; OF prepaid has
ingrates from San Francisco. The lew
est such rates to points of delivery
J shall govern. E
Car lot shipments, whether direct to-
| purchaser OF on consignmet, shall be-
/ shipped freight collect, with draft pay
able on demand attached to bill of lad
| ing. Payment for all sugars shall be-
made in New York exchange, or its
equivalent in funds which shah net par
to the producer Bank collection.
charges On drafts sh9il be paid blythe,
4 purchaser. ID t6pt
Any producer may request the Food
: Administration Sugar Distributing Com
4 mittee, or any Of its district managers
for permission to ship sugar on open
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bill of lading. If sach permission Isl
! granted and any loss occurs, such loss
shall be borne by the producer making
/ the request. Such request will not be
granted except upon satisfactory evil
dence that such extraerdinary priyi-I
lege is absolutely essential.
/ Unless otherwise stated in the price
/ list issued by the Sugar Distributing
! Committee, the differential on package
goods shall be the same as that hereto
fore customarily used by producers.
4 Each company shall furnish complete
and fully detailed reports to the Food
| Administration Sugar Distributing
I Committee of all sales Of sugar, at such
time and in such form as may be re-
4 quired, showing the invoice number,
4 name of purchaser, delivery point,
quantity sold, details of price, cash
4 discount, rate and amount of freight,
collection charges, packing differential,
and the net amount after making the
foregoing deductions and such other
information as the auditor may deter
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New Regulations Made >...., E...., 4
| A new form of price list card has
also been issued by the committee.
The new regulations prom algated
/ cover refusals to accept shipments or
dered, orders for specified brands, COM
missions, and the use of forms provid-
4 ed. These provide: t. g.
If any purchaser Of sugar refuses to
accept shipments consigned to him, or
refuses TO comply with the rules and
I, regulations of the Food Administrator,
or of the Sugar Distributing Commit
! tee, no further shipments win be made
\ to such purchaser until after the com,
mittee has had opportunity to satisfy
itself of the justification for such
refusal or noncompliance.
The Food Administration has direct
| ed its Sugar Distributing Committee,
to secure an equitable and economic
distribution of beet sugar. Everything
else being equal, such distribution in-
wolves the necessity of filing all orders
as far asfpossible from factories having
sugar available, and situated nearest
to the point of delivery. Consequent.
| ly, no broker or producer can be al
lowed to accept orders which specify,
that the sugar shipped shall bear some
particular brand, or no brand at al,
or that such shipments shall be made
from the production of some particular
company. " r.
No person, firm, or corporation shall
exact or allow any unjust, unfair, un-
reasonable, or wasteful commissions,
profits, or practises in the distribution
of or the dealing in beet sugar. When
ever cases of this kind occur, the facts
must be presented in writing to the
4 Food Administration Sugar Distribu
ting Committee. If, after due investi.
CATION, the committee finds the facts
presented, or disclosed by the inves-
| tigation, constitute violation of the
provisions of the Act Of Congress- APP
proved August 10, 1917, the committee
| will reduce its conclusions to writing
| and submit the same to the United
States Food Administrators for such ae-
tion as he may determine. r,tr5 II
The forms adopted by the Food A6.
| ministration Sugar Distributing Com
i mittee, relative to sugar sales coz lets
| (fOrm Oh and sugar invoices (form 81
shall be used by all beet sugar prC+
dueers with such non-essential addl.
tions OF with such notifications MS
their local uses may requires; provid-
ed, however, that in order to save
waste, producers may use whatever
quantity of their own sugar invoices
they may have on hand The blanks
will be furnished at actual cost upon
application to this committee. q T..I
The Sugar Distribution Committee
has also announced rulings on a numt
Der of questions raised in the course
of distribution processes. These rul-
ings provide that: 49, '.... Id
Whenever a selling company pro,
vides warehouse room for sugar which