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with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the War Regulations Act, 1914, do hereby make the following additional regulations with respect to the sale and purchase of wool.

REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the said regulations of the 10th day of August, 1917, the Controller of the Department of Imperial Government Supplies may license such persons as he deems fit to purchase wool for subsequent sale to the Crown, and any person so licensed may purchase wool in pursuance of and in accordance with the terms and conditions of his license.

2. Such license shall be issued subject to such terms and conditions as the said Controller shall fix, and shall be revocable at the will of the Controller.

3. All wool purchased by a person so licensed shall be delivered by him at the wool-store of a Government wool-broker, as provided in the Schedule to the Proclamation requisitioning New Zealand wool made and gazetted on the 25th day of August, 1917, to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule to the said Proclamation.

4. These regulations shall be read together with and be deemed part of the said regulations of the 10th day of August, 1917.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Further Restriction as to the Exportation of Butter.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this tenth day of October, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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-General may, 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-General it is necessary in the public interest that the exportation of butter should be prohibited to the extent and in the manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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 butter from the said Dominion save with the consent of the Minister of Customs; provided that the said prohibition shall not extend to butter shipped upon any vessel with the consent of a Collector of Customs as stores for the use of that vessel; and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into operation on the tenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; and doth further declare that nothing in this Order in Council shall revoke or affect the Order in Council of the thirteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, prohibiting to the extent and subject to the conditions set out therein the exportation of butter from the said Dominion, or any other Order in Council now in force relative to the exportation of butter.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington