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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 123

3. (1.) The following regulations shall be in force only in respect of boroughs in which they have been declared to be in force by the Minister of Internal Affairs in pursuance of this regulation.

(2.) The Council of any borough may make application under the seal of the borough to the Minister of Internal Affairs to declare the Milk Supply Regulations, 1918, in force in that borough.

(3.) The said Minister may thereupon, if he thinks fit, publish in the Gazette a notice signed by him declaring that on and after a specified date the Milk Supply Regulations, 1918, shall be in force in that borough, and such notice shall have effect according to its tenor.

(4.) Any such notice may at any time thereafter be revoked by the Minister of Internal Affairs by notice in the Gazette as from a date to be specified in the notice of revocation.

4. (1.) In any borough in respect of which these regulations are in force it shall be unlawful for any person, whether as principal, agent, or otherwise (other than the Corporation of that borough, if thereunto lawfully authorized, and its servants or agents),—

(a.) To sell milk; or

(b.) To deliver milk in pursuance of a contract of sale made, whether within the borough or elsewhere; or

(c.) To have milk in his possession for sale, save under a license issued in that behalf by the Council of the borough, and in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof.

(2.) Nothing in this regulation shall make it an offence to sell milk for consumption on the premises of the seller, or to have possession of milk for the purposes of such a sale.

5. For the purpose of securing for the inhabitants of the borough an adequate supply of milk of good quality and at a reasonable price, the Council of the borough may in its absolute discretion grant, refuse, or revoke any such license as aforesaid, and may in granting any such license grant it on such terms and conditions as the Council thinks proper for the purpose aforesaid. By such terms and conditions the Council may limit the exercise of the license to a specified portion of the borough only.

6. Every person who is knowingly concerned in any breach by himself or any other person of the terms or conditions of any such license as aforesaid shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

7. When the Corporation of any borough in respect of which these regulations are in force carries on the business of selling or delivering milk within the borough (being thereunto lawfully authorized), every servant or agent of the Corporation who wilfully commits any breach of his contract with the Corporation in respect of the sale or delivery of milk, and every other person who is knowingly concerned in any such breach, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

8. If and so long as these regulations are in force in respect of any borough, it shall not be lawful for any person, other than the Corporation of that borough, without the consent of the Minister of Agriculture, to erect, adapt, or equip any building within thirty miles of that borough as a new factory or establishment for the production of butter, cheese, condensed milk, dried milk, or other products of milk.

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

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