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amount of the assistance so granted to any recruit exceed the sum of £156 in any year.

13. 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.

Amending Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1918.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the War Regulations 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 the said Dominion, doth hereby amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto certain regulations (relating to prohibited publications) made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and also certain regulations (relating to seditious utterances) made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

SCHEDULE.

1. CLAUSE 2 of the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the 11th day of October, 1915, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) the words “Minister of Defence,” and substituting the words “Attorney-General.”

2. All notices heretofore issued by the Minister of Defence under the authority of the said regulations and unrevoked on the making of this Order in Council shall hereafter be deemed to have been issued by the Attorney-General under the authority of the said regulations as hereby amended, and shall operate accordingly.

3. When any book or other publication is imported into New Zealand, and the Minister of Customs deems that the sale or distribution of that book or publication would or might be injurious to the public interest in respect of the present war, he may detain such book or publication, or cause the same to be detained by a Collector of Customs for such period as the said Minister thinks fit.

4. Clause 4 of the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the 4th day of December, 1916, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:—

   (o.) To insult, offend, annoy, or discredit, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, the subjects, or any class or classes of the subjects, of any State which is in alliance with His Majesty in the present war with Germany, or which is at peace with His Majesty.

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

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