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Kingdom or any other place north of the Equator, or which is in
the course of its voyage from New Zealand to the United Kingdom
or any such place as aforesaid, or any statement as to the use or
intended use of any such ship for the carriage of troops or otherwise
in the service of the Crown in respect of the present war.

9. No person shall, except in the course of his lawful business
   in relation to any such ship or cargo as is mentioned in the last
   preceding regulation, send or cause to be sent out of New Zealand
   by means of any telegram, letter, or otherwise howsoever any infor-
   mation as to the cargo laden or about to be laden in any such ship
   or as to the use or intended use of any such ship for the carriage of
   troops or otherwise in the service of the Crown in respect of the
   present war.

10. Clause 2 of the War Regulations of the 22nd day of February,
    1915, prohibiting the publication of information with respect to
    certain matters therein specified, is hereby amended by inserting
    after paragraph (iv) thereof the following paragraph :—
    “ (v.) The armament of any merchant ship.”

11. (a.) No person shall publish, or cause or permit to be
    published, any confidential communication received by himself or
    any other person from a military authority.
    (b.) For the purpose of this regulation a communication shall
    be deemed to be published if the whole or any part thereof is
    published, or if any reference to the receipt or nature thereof is
    published.
    (c.) For the purpose of this regulation the term “ confidential
    communication ” means any communication or statement in writing
    purporting to be confidential or secret and in any manner relating
    to the present war.

12. (a.) No person shall publish or permit to be published any
    matter or statement which in any manner indicates or may be
    reasonably supposed to indicate the existence therein of any
    omission, alteration, or addition due to censorship.
    (b.) Censorship means the act, direction, or request of any
    officer or other person exercising or purporting to exercise, whether
    in New Zealand or elsewhere, control over the transmission or
    publication of matter relative to the present war.

13. (a.) A military authority may, by notice signed by him and
    delivered or transmitted by post or telegraph to the proprietor,
    publisher, or printer of any newspaper or other periodical publi-
    cation, prohibit the publication of any matter or kind of matter
    relative to the present war.
    (b.) After the receipt of such notice by the proprietor, publisher,
    or printer of any newspaper or other periodical publication neither
    he nor any other person shall publish, or cause or permit to be
    published, therein or in connection therewith any matter in breach
    of such prohibition.

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

Prohibiting the Importation of certain Explosives,

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second
day of February, 1916.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, as
extended by section two of the Regulation of Trade and
Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, it is enacted that the Governor
may by Order in Council prohibit the importation into New Zealand
of any goods the prohibition of the importation of which is in his
opinion necessary in the public interest :

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is necessary
that the importation of the explosives hereinafter described should
be prohibited :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities