EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 14 February 1917, Page 86

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

* (From Gazette, 1917, page 439, 440, and 585-537.) Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1911 f. LIVE R1 J 00 L , Gove rno r . ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifth day of February, 1917. Present : This Honourable James Allen presiding in Council. I ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, the j Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance of the War Regulations Act, 1914, and its amendments, do hereby revoke the regulations prohibiting the publication of shipping intelligence made under that Act on the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and do hereby make the following further regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS

Publication of Shipping Intelligence

1. No person shall, without the written consent of a military authority, publish or cause or permit to be published in a newspaper or in any other periodical publication any statement or indication as to the movements, whereabouts, cargo, or employment of any ship engaged or about to be engaged in any voyage the course of which lies wholly or partially to the north of the Equator, or any information as to any such ship which if known to the enemy might be a source of danger to that ship or might otherwise be of use lo the enemy.

2. No person shall, without the written consent of a military authority, sell, distribute, or publicly exhibit any document containing any statement or indication as to the movements, whereabouts, cargo, or employment of any such ship as aforesaid, or any information as to any such ship Avhieh if known to the enemy might be a source of danger to that ship or might .otherwise be of use to the enemy. 3. No person shall, except in the course of his lawful business in relation to any such ship as aforesaid, send or cause to be sent out of New Zealand by means of any telegram, letter, or otherwise howsoever any such statement, indication, or information as aforesaid with respect to that ship. 4. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall make it an offence to publish in New Zealand — (a.) Any matter contained in a newspaper printed in the United Kingdom after the 23rd day of December, 1916, and received in New Zealand prior to the publication there of such matter ;

(b.) Any matter transmitted to New Zealand by telegram from a recognized Press agency in the United Kingdom, and passed for publication in a newspaper by the censors of telegraphic messages; or (c.) Any information as to shipping casualties. Arrest of Offenders against the Army Act. 5. (1.) If an authorized officer (within the meaning of the Military Service Act, 1916) has reasonable cause to suspect that a soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force has committed, whether before or after the making of these regulations, any offence for which he is liable to be tried and punished under the Army Act, such authorized officer may issue to an officer of police his warrant for the arrest of that soldier. (2.) Every such warrant may be addressed to all constables, and shall be sufficient if it purports to be issued in pursuance of the Army Act. (3.) Every such warrant may be executed by any constable, whether the Avarrant has been delivered to him or not, and on any day of the Aveek. (4.) Every soldier so arrested shall be delivered into military custody in accordance with the tenor of the warrant. Detention of Disaffected Aliens. 6. A military authority, if satisfied that any alien is disaffected or is of such a character that his liberty is a source of public danger, may order the arrest of that alien and his detention in such place as the military authority thinks fit, and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence, and such alien may be arrested and detained accordingly in pursuance of the tenor of such order. 7. These regulations shall be deemed part of and read together with the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916

LIVERPOOL, Governor

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this ninth day of February, 1917.

Present

The Honourable James Allen presiding in Council

WHEREAS by section three of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, it is enacted that the Governor in Council may by regulations make such provisions as, having regard to the exigencies of the present Avar or the conditions created thereby, he thinks advisable for the maintenance of industries essential for the public Avelfare : And Avhereas the lading and unlading of ships is an industry essential for the public welfare, and the folloAving regulations are, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, advisable for the maintenance of that industry having regard to the conditions created by the present war : Now, therefore, 1, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and aa itli the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby make the following regulations for the maintenance of the said industry.

REGULATIONS. 1. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council published in the Gazette , declare any wharf or wharves to be a Government wharf within the meaning and for the purposes of these regulations, with the distinguishing name given thereto by such notice, and with the boundaries defined by such notice. Any such notice may be in like manner revoked. 2. In these regulations the term “ wharf ” includes any wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place used or capable of being used for the lading or unlading of ships, and also includes any place belonging to or in the possession of or under the control of a Harbour Board; and also includes any public highway so far as it intersects or is contiguous to any such wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place as aforesaid. 3. By the same or any other Order in Council published in the Gazette the Governor may from time to time appoint any person to be the Controller of such Government wharf, and may also appoint such other persons (if any) as he thinks necessary to be the Assistant Controllers of that wharf. All persons so appointed shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor. 4. Every §uch Assistant Controller shall, subject to the control and direction of the Controller, have the same powers, authorities, and functions as the Controller himself, and every reference in these regulations to the Controller of a Government wharf shall be read as including a reference to any Assistant Controller accordingly. 5. The Controller of a Government wharf may from time to time employ all such wharf labourers and other persons as he considers necessary for the loading, unloading, and despatch of vessels at that wharf, and for the performance of any other duties incidental to any such operations, and may enter into such contracts as he thinks reasonable on behalf of the Crown for the payment of such persons at such rates as may be agreed on. 6. When the Controller of a Government wharf is satisfied that the conduct or character of any person is such that his liberty of access to that wharf is prejudicial to the effective use, control, or administration thereof, the Controller may, by order in writing (whether that person is then upon the wharf or not), warn him off that wharf. Every such order, shall take effect so soon as the making thereof has been brought in any manner to the knowledge of the person against whom it is made. Every such order may be revoked by the Controller by order in writing. 7. If after any person has been so warned off a Government wharf, and while the order remains in force, such person enters or remains upon that wharf, or loiters in the vicinity of any entrance thereto, he shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly. 8. The Controller of a Government wharf, if satisfied that such a course is advisable for the effective use, control, or administration thereof, may by order close that wharf or any part thereof specified in the order. Every such order shall take effect when a notification thereof has been published in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the wharf is situated, or has been publicly exhibited upon the wharf or upon the part of it so closed. Every such order may be revoked by the Controller in like manner. 9. (1.) So long as any such order closing a Government wharf or any part thereof remains in force, no person shall enter upon that wharf or upon that part thereof, as the case may be, except in pursuance of a permit issued by the Controller of the wharf or by his authority, and no person shall loiter in the vicinity of any entrance to the closed wharf or of the closed part thereof, as the case may be. (2.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply so as to prohibit the entrance of—(a.) Any person in the employment of the Crown; (b.) Any person employed as a member of the permanent staff of a Harbour Board by which the wharf is owned; (c.) Any seaman or passenger belonging to any ship lying at or in the vicinity of the closed wharf or the closed part thereof, as the case may be. 10. Every person who incites any other person to refuse or fail to offer or render service or effective service as a wharf labourer on any Government wharf, or who does any act, or publishes (whether to any person or persons or to the public at large) any utterance, intended or calculated to interfere with the effective use, control, or administration of a Government wharf, or with the proper loading, unloading, or despatch of any vessel lying at or in the vicinity of a Government wharf,

or to obstruct the due administration of these regulations by the Controller of a Government wharf or by any person acting in aid of the Controller, shall be guilty of an offence against these regtilations, and shall be liable accordingly. 11. The Controller of a Government wharf, and every person acting in aid of him, shall have at all times a right of access to that wharf and to every part thereof, and to every ship lying thereat. 12. Every person who does wilful damage to a Government wharf or to any building or structure situated thereon, or to any goods, machinery, plant, or other property being thereon or on any ship lying thereat, or in the vicinity thereof, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly. 13. The Controller of a Government, wharf may make thereon any structural or other alterations which he deems necessary for the effective enforcement of these regulations or the proper use, control, or administration of the wharf. 14. The Controller of a Government wharf may give such orders as he thinks necessary as to the berthing, lading, unlading, or despatch of any ship lying at or in the vicinity of that wharf. Disobedience to any such order shall be an offence against these regulations. 15. Every person who conspires with any other person to prevent, delay, or otherwise interfere with the proper loading, unloading, or despatch of any vessel, whether lying at a Government wharf or not, or who does any act or publishes (whether to any person or persons or to the public at large) any utterance intended to prevent, delay, or otherwise interfere with the proper loading, unloading, or despatch of any vessel, whether lying at a Government wharf or not, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.