NO ACCESS TO SHIPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12061, 17 July 1917, Page 4

NO ACCESS TO SHIPS.

A NEW WAR REGULATION.

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July IG. Additional regulations under the '<*? Regulations Act, 1914, are published in a "Gazette Extraordinary" to-day. They provide:—

No person shall enter on board a seagoing ship, other than one exclusively engaged in the coastal trade of }\<iw Zealand, while such ship is moored alongside any wharf or is in any harbour in New Zealand, without the permission in writing of a military authority or the owner, master or agent of the ship. This regulation does not apply to any person in the service of the Government of New Zealand who enters the ship on duty, or any person employed by the harbour authorities and entering fhe ship on duty, or any member of the ship's crew, or any person who has engaged a passage in the ship. The master of any such ship shall maintain a sufficient guard at each gangway by which the ship can be entered. If the master or any member of the ship's crew permits any person to enter, or negligently fails to prevent any person from entering on board the ship in contravention of these regulations, he shall be guilty of an offence against thesel regulations and shall be liable accordingly. Any constable, officer of Customs, officer of the Defence Forces, or master or any officer of the ship may arrest without warrant any person who enters or is reasonably suspected of having entered or being about to enter any-ship in breach of these regulations.