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17. The assistance to be afforded to any member of the Expeditionary Force under these regulations shall be for the purpose of enabling him to meet the following obligations; and shall be granted as from the date of the Minister’s approval, or as from any later date at which the recruit first becomes entitled to receive continuous pay as a member of the Expeditionary Force:—

(a.) Rent.

(b.) Interest and instalments payable in respect of loans and mortgages.

(c.) Interest and instalments payable in respect of agreements for the purchase of a dwellinghouse, business premises, furniture, and the like.

(d.) Rates and taxes.

(e.) Insurance premiums.

(f.) Expenses incurred in respect of the management of his business during his military service.

18. Such assistance will be computed and granted by way of periodical payments at a rate not exceeding £2 a week.

19. Financial obligations incurred by a reservist after the passing of the Military Service Act, 1916, by way of loans, mortgages, or agreements of purchase, or incurred by a reservist in respect of any business commenced by him after that date, shall not, except in circumstances which in the opinion of the Military Service Board are exceptional, be the subject of financial assistance under these regulations; nor, except as aforesaid, shall any appeal be allowed by a Military Service Board on the ground of the existence of any such obligations.

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

Prohibiting the Importation into New Zealand of a certain Newspaper.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of January, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in the Gazette of the same date, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, prohibited the importation into New Zealand of certain newspapers and other periodical literature: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Order in Council in the manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, and section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby amend the Schedule to the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council by adding to the list of newspapers therein contained the newspaper known as “The Gaelic American.”

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

Prohibiting the Export of Cheese.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of January, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES ALLEN PRESIDING 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 by Order in