✨ War Regulations and Trade Amendments
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 157
Amendment of the Lighting Regulations.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, 1917.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS on the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, certain regulations known as the Lighting Regulations, 1917, were made by the Governor-General in Council in pursuance of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916:
And whereas, having regard to the exigencies of the present war and the conditions created thereby, it is deemed advisable to amend those regulations in the manner hereinafter appearing:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon him by the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, doth hereby amend the said Lighting Regulations, 1917, by adding at the end of the definition of “electricity,” in clause two thereof, the words “or by means of oil fuel.”
F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
Amendment as to Maximum Prices fixed for Wheat.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, 1917.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, it is enacted that at any time while His Majesty is at war with any foreign State the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, fix and determine the maximum price in New Zealand of any class of goods:
And whereas, pursuant to the said section, the Governor-General did, by Order in Council dated the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, fix and determine the maximum price of wheat:
And whereas it is now expedient to revoke clause four of the First Schedule to the said Order in Council:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby revoke clause four of the First Schedule to the said Order in Council of the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (providing that the said Order in Council shall not apply to a contract for the sale of wheat in a quantity less than 50 bushels); and doth declare that this Order in Council shall come into operation on the twenty-second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Amendment of the Lighting Regulations
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration15 October 1917
Lighting Regulations, War Regulations Amendment Act, Electricity, Oil Fuel
- F. D. Thomson, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council
🏭 Amendment to Maximum Prices for Wheat
🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry15 October 1917
Maximum Prices, Wheat, Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, Contracts
- F. D. Thomson, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council