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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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if the Government broker were an independent third person purchasing the wheat from the Government through that broker.

72. Save with the permission of the Wheat Controller it shall not be lawful for a broker who has so purchased seed-wheat to dispose of it in any manner otherwise than by the sale thereof as seed-wheat to farmers.

73. Any surplus of seed-wheat so purchased by a Government broker and undisposed-of by sale to farmers before the close of the sowing season of the year 1919 may be demanded by the Wheat Controller for the Government, and shall thereupon be resold to the Government by the broker at the price hereinbefore prescribed for good milling-wheat sold to the Government for delivery in the month in which such demand was made by the Wheat Controller.

PART X.—SALE OF OLD WHEAT.

74. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall apply to wheat of the season 1917–18 (hereinafter referred to as old wheat), and, save as herein otherwise provided, all such wheat that has not been disposed of before the date of the making of these regulations shall remain subject to the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917.

75. (1.) Old wheat will be purchased by Government brokers at the prices fixed by clause 16 of the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, for wheat to be delivered in or after the month of September, 1918. Sacks will be paid for at the price fixed by clause 19 of these regulations in lieu of the price fixed by clause 19 of the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917.

(2.) All old wheat so purchased shall be sold by Government brokers as if it were wheat of the season 1918–19 sold to the Government for delivery during the month in which it is sold by the Government. Clause 33 of the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, is hereby modified in so far as it is inconsistent with this clause.

76. Every person who sells old wheat to the Government shall disclose in writing to the Government broker the fact that it is old wheat, and every seller of old wheat who fails to make such disclosure commits an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

77. Every person who is knowingly concerned in the sale to or purchase by the Government of any old wheat at a price in excess of the prices fixed by the Wheat Trade Regulations, 1917, for wheat to be delivered in the month of September, 1918, commits an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

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

Amending Regulations as to taking the Votes of Soldiers at the Special Licensing Poll under the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1919.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by Order in Council of the nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, regulations were made with respect to the taking of the votes of members of the Expeditionary Forces for the purposes of the special licensing poll to be taken under the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the said regulations in so far as they relate to the taking of the said poll in New Zealand:

Now, therefore, 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, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him in that behalf by section twelve of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, amend the said regulations in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. (1.) EVERY member of an Expeditionary Force who is in New Zealand on the day fixed for the taking of the special licensing poll shall be entitled to vote on producing to the Electoral Officer a status-certificate (being a hospital-certificate, or a leave-certificate, or other status-certificate, signed or purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the military authority holding office as the Director of Base Records).

(2.) The Electoral Officer or his clerk, on giving to the voter a voting-paper, shall place his official mark on the status-certificate and shall initial the same. He shall then return the status-certificate to the voter.

(3.) The Electoral Officer shall provide separate ballot-boxes for—

(a.) The votes of members of an Expeditionary Force whose status-certificates disclose the fact that they are members of an Expeditionary Force stationed in a camp of military training, or in a hospital, sanatorium, or other public institution; and

(b.) The votes of all other persons voting as members of an Expeditionary Force pursuant to these regulations.

(4.) Clause 16 of the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the 19th December, 1918 (requiring the production of military pay-books), shall have no application to the taking of the votes of soldiers in New Zealand.

(5.) Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall apply to members of an Expeditionary Force who are registered as electors of an electoral district and who vote by virtue of their registration as such electors.

(6.) These regulations are in substitution for clause two of the regulations of the 19th December, 1918, and that clause is hereby accordingly revoked.

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

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