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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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recommendation of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, may make by regulations under those Acts (to be known as “Board of Trade Regulations”) such provisions as he deems necessary in the public interest for the regulation and control of industries in any manner which is deemed necessary for the maintenance and prosperity of those industries and the economic welfare of New Zealand :

And whereas it is deemed necessary to make provision for the regulation and control of the sale of garments made to measure in the tailoring trade:

And whereas the making of the regulations hereinafter set forth has been approved and recommended by the Minister of Industries and Commerce in pursuance of the said Acts.

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, and in pursuance of the authority conferred upon him by section twenty-six of the Board of Trade Act, 1919, and the Board of Trade Amendment Act, 1923, doth hereby on the recommendation of the Minister of Industries and Commerce make the following Board of Trade Regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Board of Trade (Sale of Garments made to Measure) Regulations, 1925.

2. These regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1925.

3. Every person commits an offence who sells or agrees or offers to sell as hand-made or hand-tailored any garment that is not wholly made by hand and otherwise made in accordance with the requirements of these regulations respecting tailor-made garments.

4. Every person commits an offence who sells or agrees or offers to sell as tailor-made any garment that is not tailor-made

5. A garment sold, offered for sale, or described as tailored, tailored to order, or tailored to measure, or in any other manner represented to have been tailor-made shall for the purposes of these regulations be deemed to have been sold, offered for sale, or described as tailor-made, as the case may be.

6. If any person sells, or agrees or offers to sell, or advertises for sale both tailor-made garments and other garments made to measure, he shall before selling or agreeing to sell any garment made to measure that is not tailor-made inform the purchaser that the garment is not tailor-made; and in any proceedings for a breach of this regulation it shall lie on the seller to prove that he so informed the purchaser.

7. For the purposes of these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,

(a.) “Tailor-made” means made to measure by hand to the extent and in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and so far as the work is performed by employees, carried out in accordance with the provisions of the current awards or industrial agreements relating to the employment of shop tailors and shop tailoresses in the locality. For the purposes of regulation 6 hereof the expression “tailor-made” shall be deemed to include “hand-made.”

(b.) “Garment” means a man’s or boy’s coat, trousers, breeches, vest, or overcoat (other than an oilskin overcoat).

SCHEDULE.

THE minimum amount of work to be performed by hand in a tailor-made garment and the special conditions for the making thereof are as set out hereunder :—

COATS AND OVERCOATS.

Minimum Handwork.

All canvases and lapels padded.

All pockets tacked.

All edge stays.

All facings put on before shoulders are sewn (silk facings, &c.).

All body seams in body-fitting coats.

Sleeve-linings felled top and bottom.

Shoulders and sleeves sewn in.

Collar padded and sewn on.

Sides, shoulders, and bottoms of linings felled.

Buttonholes and buttons.

All silk facings.

Special Conditions.

All coats made by a male coatmaker shall be pressed by him.

A coat made by a tailoress may be pressed by a tailor or presser.

VESTS.

Minimum Handwork

All pockets tacked.

Edge stays fastened.

Forepart linings felled.

Neck felled.

Buttonholes and buttons.

Back straps tacked.

Buckle sewn on.

Special Condition.

Vest shall be pressed off by a presser or tailor.

TROUSERS AND BREECHES.

Minimum Handwork.

All pockets felled in and tacked.

Pocket stays.

Edge of button catch felled.

Fly tack.

Seat-seam and leg-seam from crutch to knee.

Band-lining and crutch-lining.

Bottoms, buttons and buttonholes.

Special Condition.

Trousers and breeches shall be shrunk and pressed off by a presser or tailor.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of February, 1925.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is expedient that such consent should issue :

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 the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.

ASHBURTON Borough Council (for drainage) 1,000

Christchurch City Council (for further distribution and supply of electricity) 375,000

Franklin County Council (for metalling Yates Road) 600

Franklin County Council (for metalling Karaka North Road) 600

Mangawhero Drainage Board (for clearing, deepening, and straightening the Mangawhero Stream) 2,500

Masterton Borough Council (for water-reticulation) 5,000

Mount Roskill Road Board (for laying water-mains) 4,800

Ohura County Council (for widening, culverting, and metalling Waitewhenua and Haparua Roads) 1,125

Ohura County Council (for re-forming, culverting, and metalling the Te Marie Bluff and portion of the Wanganui River Road) 250

Otahuhu Borough Council (for reconstructing septic tank) 800

Pukekohe Borough Council (for the purchase of land for a water reserve) 1,700

Papatoetoe Town Board (for completing road-improvements) 1,200

Piako County Council (for completing the metalling of Starkey’s Road and part of Tahuroa Road) 300

Stratford County Council (for extending the Toko Road metalling) 700

Stratford County Council (for deviating and metalling the Kaiapoi Road) 700

Sumner Borough Council (for the purchase and improvement of St. Leonard’s Square as a recreation-ground) 1,000