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the carrying of such apparatus under this regulation is to be compulsory,
the character of the apparatus, and the qualifications of the operator.
(4.) The Minister of Telegraphs may—
(a.) Extend the time mentioned in any license as the time within
which any apparatus is to be provided; and
(b.) Exempt any ship from all or any of the obligations im-
posed by this regulation.
(5.) If the provisions of this regulation or the terms of any license
granted as herein provided are not complied with in the case of any ship,
the owner of the ship shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation,
and shall be liable accordingly; and if any owner fails to make an appli-
cation in accordance with this regulation, he shall be guilty of an offence
against this regulation, and shall be liable accordingly; and in either
case, if the ship is at any time subsequently found at a port in New
Zealand the ship may be seized and detained.
2. While a British ship, whether registered in New Zealand or not,
is in waters included within the territorial limits of New Zealand it
shall be unlawful for any person to do on board that ship and with
respect to the navigation thereof, or to the use of wireless telegraphy
thereon, any act which if done on board that ship on the high seas would
have been an offence against any regulation made under the Imperial
Defence of the Realm Act, 1914, for the purpose of better securing the
public safety and for the time being in force in the United Kingdom;
and every person who does any such act as aforesaid shall be guilty of an
offence against these present regulations, and shall be liable under the
War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.
3. (1.) For the purpose of better securing the public safety a Naval
Authority may give to the owner or master of any British ship, whether
registered in New Zealand or not, such orders as the Naval Authority
thinks necessary as to the navigation of that ship or as to the use of
wireless telegraphy on board thereof.
(2.) If any such ship, while in waters included within the territorial
limits of New Zealand, or while on a voyage to or from any port or place
in New Zealand and within three hundred miles of the coast of New
Zealand, is navigated in breach of any orders so given to the owner or
master, or fails to conform to any such order as to the use of wireless
telegraphy, every person knowingly concerned in the breach of such order
shall, whether he is then within the territorial limits of New Zealand or
not, be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable
under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.
4. These regulations shall be read together with and be deemed part
of the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914.

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

Amending Order in Council fixing Maximum Prices of Petrol.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this thirtieth day of July,
1918.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred on him by section two of the
Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, His Excellency the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth
hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule
hereto, Part IV of the Petrol Regulations made on the ninth day of
July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and gazetted on the twelfth
day of that month.

SCHEDULE.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything to the contrary in Part IV of the Petrol
Regulations aforesaid, the maximum retail price of Class A petrol per
case containing not less than eight and one-third gallons shall be one
shilling more than the maximum price of such petrol per case of not
less than eight gallons.

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

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