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(2.) No person shall, otherwise than through the Post Office, send or cause to be sent out of New Zealand, or bring or cause to be brought into New Zealand, any letter or other written communication of such a nature that in the ordinary course of correspondence or business it would be transmitted from or into New Zealand through the Post Office.

11. (1.) An officer or any person authorized for that purpose by a military authority may arrest, without warrant, any person found in New Zealand who is reasonably suspected of having committed in enemy territory in the military occupation of His Majesty’s Forces an offence against any rules or orders there established by the military Government thereof, or of having there acted in a manner injurious to the public safety or to the interests of His Majesty in respect of the present war.

(2.) Unless the person so arrested is an alien enemy he shall, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence, be sent in custody at the first suitable opportunity to the territory aforesaid, and shall be there delivered to the military Government thereof.

(3.) If the person so arrested is an alien enemy, he shall be either dealt with as hereinbefore provided or shall be detained in New Zealand in such place and manner as a military authority directs, and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence.

12. Any person who has been sentenced to any term of imprisonment by any Court or judicial authority constituted in enemy territory in the military occupation of His Majesty’s Forces may, if found in New Zealand, be arrested and detained by order of a military authority in such place and manner as that military authority thinks fit, and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence, but not for any longer period than the unexpired term of his sentence of imprisonment. For the purpose of this regulation such term shall be deemed to have commenced on the day on which the sentence of imprisonment was pronounced.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prohibiting the Export of Forage from New Zealand.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1914.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, prohibit the exportation of any goods the prohibition of the exportation of which is in his opinion necessary in the public interest: And whereas in the opinion of the Governor it is necessary in the public interest that the exportation of forage, except as hereinafter specified, should be prohibited:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby prohibit the exportation of forage—that is to say, grass clover or oaten hay, oaten chaff, and bran—from the said Dominion save and except where in the case of any specified country or place the Minister of Defence consents to the exportation to that country or place of any specified quantity of such forage in a specified ship and authorizes the lading and exportation thereof accordingly.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.