New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 72

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✨ Regulations for the Importation and Sale of Firearms in the Cook Islands



June 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2205

Cladosporium fulvum (tomato leaf blight).
Macros porium tomato (tomato black spot).
Peronospora cubensis (cucumber and melon mildew).
Vermicularia varians (black dot of tomato).
Fusarium lycopersici (sleepy disease of tomato).
Phoma citricarpa (black spot of orange).
Phytophthora infestans (Irish blight).
Heterodera radicicola (eelworm).
Lonchaea splendida (tomato fruit-fly).
Cersospora concors (black stripe of tomato).
Odontria Zealandria (grass grub).
Selandria cerasi (leech).
Tortrix glaphyriana (leaf roller).
Carpocapsa pomonella (codlin moth).
Termitidae (white ant).
Sphenophorus (borer weevils).
Phasmidae (stick insect).
Pseudococcus pandani (coconut scale).

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

Regulations under the Cook Islands Act, 1915, concerning the Importation into and the Sale of Firearms and Ammunition within the Cook Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

  1. EXCEPT as hereinafter provided, it shall not be lawful for any person to import into the Cook Islands, or to sell or expose or keep for sale in the said islands, any firearms, or any cartridges, cartridge-cases, gunpowder, bullets, shot, or other ammunition.

  2. Any Customs officer, constable, or other person appointed for that purpose by the Resident Commissioner may detain and examine the contents of any package imported into the Cook Islands in respect whereof a breach of these regulations is reasonably suspected.

  3. It shall be lawful for any officer or officers appointed for that purpose by the Resident Commissioner to import into the Cook Islands, and to sell or give to any person or persons, subject to such conditions as may from time to time be imposed by the Resident Commissioner, firearms and cartridges, cartridge-cases, gunpowder, bullets, shot, and other ammunition. Such officer shall keep a correct and true account of all firearms and ammunition imported or received by him, and of the names of all persons to whom any firearms or ammunition are or is sold or given as aforesaid.

  4. “Firearms” shall mean and include all weapons from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance or by compressed air.

  5. Every person who commits a breach of these regulations is liable to a penalty not exceeding £20, or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months.

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

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🌾 List of Pests and Diseases for Quarantine Purposes

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19 June 1916
Cook Islands, Firearms, Ammunition, Importation, Sale, Regulations
  • Liverpool, Governor
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council