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707. “Detention-barrack” means any building or place in the possession of the Crown (not being a prison or police gaol under the Prisons Act, 1908) declared by the Minister of Defence, by warrant gazetted, to be a detention-barrack for the purposes of the Army Act.

708. The control and administration of detention-barracks shall be in accordance with military orders, and in default of such orders, or so far as they do not extend, then in accordance with the discretion of the officer in command of the barrack.

709. Every person sentenced to imprisonment by a Court-martial in New Zealand shall be detained either in a prison or police gaol under the Prisons Act, 1908, or in some other place appointed for that purpose under the authority of section 19 of the Defence Amendment Act, 1912, as may be determined from time to time by a committing authority under these regulations.

710. (1.) “Committing authority” in respect of every person sentenced to imprisonment or detention by a Court-martial means and includes any of the following persons:—
     (a.) The officer by whom the sentence of the Court-martial has been confirmed;
     (b.) The Commanding Officer of the person so sentenced;
     (c.) An authorized officer under the Military Service Act, 1916;
     (d.) An Officer Commanding a Military District.

(2.) “Committing authority,” in respect of every person sentenced to detention by a Commanding Officer, means and includes the following persons:—
(a.) The Commanding Officer of the person so sentenced.
(b.) An authorized officer under the Military Service Act, 1916.
(c.) An Officer Commanding a Military District.

711. A committing authority may from time to time order the removal of any person so sentenced to imprisonment or detention from one lawful place of confinement to another, or may transfer to a detention-barrack any person sentenced to detention and committed to military custody, or may transfer to military custody any person committed to a detention-barrack.

712. The military custody of persons pending their trial for offences against the Army Act, or pending their reception to a prison, detention-barrack, or other lawful place of confinement in execution of any sentence of imprisonment or detention, and the military custody of persons committed to such custody in execution of any sentence of detention, shall be in accordance with military orders, and in default of such orders, or so far as they do not extend, shall be in accordance with the discretion of Commanding Officers.

713. These regulations shall, so far as applicable, extend and apply to persons sentenced to imprisonment or detention before the making of these regulations.

The regulations made under the Defence Act, 1909, on the 22nd day of December, 1913, are hereby amended by revoking clause 236 thereof relating to the execution of sentences of imprisonment and detention.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

BRENNAN, JOHN .. .. .. Newton.
CROCKER, JOHN ROCKWELL .. .. Pahiatua.
SPARGO, JOHN THOMAS .. .. Limestone.

As witness my hand this ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Member of New Plymouth Fire Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

W. WALLNUTT

to be a member of the Waihi Fire Board, as constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Member of Horowhenua Lake Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 2 of the Horowhenua Lake Act, 1905, and section 97 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, been pleased to appoint

SAM ATKINSON BROADBELT

to be a member of the Horowhenua Lake Domain Board, in the place of John Robertson, who has resigned.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Clerk of Magistrate’s Court and Assistant Clerk of Warden’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM PATRICK GILLIGAN

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court and Assistant Clerk of the Warden’s Court at Roxburgh, on and from the 13th day of February, 1918, vice Constable H. Butler, transferred.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT BISHOP

to be Deputy Official Assignee at Napier, on and from the 18th day of March, 1918, vice S. Smith, resigned.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Officer under the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

HARRY J. JAMES,

of Ahaura, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Licensing Officer under Arms Act, 1908, appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 7th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN WALTER McHOLM,

of the New Zealand Police Force, to be a Licensing Officer under the Arms Act, 1908.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.