JULY 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2337

Royal Standard: As to Flying of.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th July, 1911.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, is published for general
information.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—No. 168.)
Downing Street, 11th May, 1911.

MY LORD,—I have the honour to request you to inform
your Ministers that His Majesty the King has decided
that the Royal Standard, which is the personal flag of the
Sovereign, is not in future to be flown except when and
where His Majesty is personally present.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., &c.

King’s Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th July, 1911.

THE following despatch (with enclosure), received from
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published
for general information.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—No. 192.)
Downing Street, 2nd June, 1911.

MY LORD,—With reference to Mr. Chamberlain’s circular
despatch of the 17th August, 1898, I have the honour to
transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers,
copies of the new Regulations respecting Foreign Orders
and Medals which have been issued by His Majesty’s com-
mand in substitution for those hitherto in force.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., &c.

THE King has been pleased to command that the following
regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals shall be
substituted for those hitherto in force :—

1. It is the King’s wish that no subject of His Majesty
   shall wear the Insignia of any Foreign Order without
   having previously obtained His Majesty’s permission to
   do so, signified either—
   (a.) By Warrant under the Royal Sign-manual, or
   (b.) By private permission conveyed through His
   Majesty’s Private Secretary.

2. Permission given by Warrant under the Royal Sign-
   manual will enable the Insignia of the Foreign Order to
   be worn at all times and without any restriction.

Private permission will only enable the Insignia to be
worn on the occasions specified in the terms of the letter
from the King’s Private Secretary conveying the Royal
Sanction.

3. The full and unrestricted permission by Warrant
   under the Royal Sign-manual is designed, subject to the
   exception mentioned in Rule 4 (a) respecting British Naval
   or Military Officers during hostilities, to meet cases where
   the Decoration may be said to have been earned by some
   valuable service rendered to the Head of the State con-
   ferring it, or to the State itself. The private or restricted
   permission is contemplated for Decorations which are more
   or less of a complimentary character. In either case the
   matter will be submitted to the King by His Majesty’s
   Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

4. Full and unrestricted permission by Warrant under
   the Royal Sign-manual is contemplated in the following
   cases :—

For a Decoration conferred—
(a.) On an Officer in His Majesty’s Naval or Military
Forces lent to a Foreign Government; on an Officer in
His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces attached by his
Government to a Foreign Navy or Army during hostilities ;
or on any British Official lent to a Foreign Government
and not in receipt of any emoluments from British public
funds during the period of such loan.

(b.) On any person not at the time in the service of
the Crown who, while himself outside the limits of His
Majesty’s Dominions, has rendered valuable services to
the Head of the State conferring the Order, or to the
State itself, within the period of two years immediately
preceding the notification of the Decoration to His
Majesty’s Government provided for in Rule 5. The term
“service of the Crown” (supra) comprises any person
holding a Royal Commission, or any person in receipt of
a salary from public funds in the United Kingdom, or in
any British Dominion, Colony, or Protectorate.

(c.) On any British subject employed in a Foreign Em-
bassy or Legation in the United Kingdom.

5. The desire of the Head of a Foreign State to confer
   upon a British subject the Insignia of an Order, or the
   fact that he has done so, must be notified to His Majesty’s
   Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs either
   through the British Diplomatic Representative accredited
   to the Head of the Foreign State, or through his Diplo-
   matic Representative at the Court of St. James. His
   Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
   shall be under no obligation to consider claims that are
   not brought to his notice through one of these channels.

6. When His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for
   Foreign Affairs shall have taken the King’s pleasure on any
   such application, and shall have obtained His Majesty’s
   permission for the person in whose favour it has been
   made to wear the Insignia of a Foreign Order, he shall
   signify the same to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of
   State for the Home Department, in order that he may
   cause a Warrant, if it be a case for the issue of a Warrant
   as defined in Rule 4, to be prepared for the Royal Sign-
   manual.

When such Warrant shall have been signed by the King,
a notification thereof shall be inserted in the “Gazette,”
stating the service for which the Foreign Order has been
conferred.

Persons in whose favour such Warrants are issued will
be required to pay to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary
of State for the Home Department a stamp duty of 10s.

The Warrant signifying His Majesty’s permission may,
at the request and at the expense of the person who has
obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms. Every
such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a clause providing
that His Majesty’s license and permission does not autho-
rize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, prece-
dence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of
His Majesty’s Realms.

7. When a British subject has received the Royal per-
   mission to accept the Decoration of a Foreign Order, he
   will, at any future time, be allowed to accept the Decora-
   tion of a higher class of the same Order to which he may
   have become eligible by increase of rank in the Foreign
   Service, or in the service of his own country; or any
   other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon
   the acceptance of the original Decoration, and common to
   every person upon whom such Decoration is conferred.

8. Medals which constitute a particular class of a Foreign
   Order are subject in all respects to the above Regulations
   in the same manner as higher grades of the Order, except
   that permission to wear will be given by Letter and not
   by Royal Warrant. The King’s permission must be ob-
   tained for any other Medal to be worn. No permission is
   needed to accept a Foreign Medal if it is not intended to
   be worn.

9. Naval and Military Attachés to His Majesty’s Mis-
   sions abroad may, at the termination of their appointments,
   be given restricted private permission to wear, on certain
   specific occasions, the Insignia of a Foreign Order con-
   ferred upon them by the Chief of the State only in which
   their headquarters were situated.

Foreign Office, 8th May, 1911.

Special Order made by the Omaka Road Board, County
of Marlborough.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1911.

THE following special order, made by the Omaka Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

OMAKA ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

Notice is hereby given that at a special meeting of the
Omaka Road Board held on the 13th day of June, 1911,
a resolution was passed : That the interest and sinking
fund on the special loan of £3,000 granted to the Board
by the Government under the provisions of the Local