Jan. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 47

PART VII.—SALE OF FIREWOOD, COKE, AND COAL.

1. No person shall—
   (a.) Sell firewood, coke, or coal by description which is false as to the sort of firewood, coke, or coal ; or
   (b.) Sell, carry for sale, or deliver wet coke or coal with intent to defraud the purchaser as to the weight of coke or coal sold or delivered ; or
   (c.) Sell, carry for sale, or deliver firewood, coke, or coal short of the quantity purchased or of the quantity purported to be sold or delivered ; or
   (d.) Make any false statement as to the weight or quantity of any coke or coal or firewood ; or
   (e.) Being engaged upon a vehicle containing firewood, coke, or coal for delivery to any purchaser, make any false statement as to the tare weight of the vehicle, or do any act by which either the seller or the purchaser of any firewood, coke, or coal is defrauded.

2. No person shall sell by retail any coal in any quantity other than 1 cwt., 1½ cwt., or multiples of 1 cwt. or 1½ cwt. net weight : Provided that this clause shall not apply to any quantities less than 1 cwt. sold and delivered to the purchaser on the premises of the seller.

3. Coke or coal carried on any vehicle for delivery to a purchaser shall be in sacks : Provided that when all the coke or coal on any vehicle is for delivery to one purchaser, and the quantity is 5 cwt. or over, it may be conveyed in bulk.

4. Every seller of coke or coal shall provide on his premises a correct, stamped weighing-machine.

5. Coke or coal hawked on any vehicle shall be in closed sacks.

6. Each sack containing coke or coal hawked on any vehicle shall have affixed thereon in a prominent and suitable position a metal label on which there shall be clearly and legibly marked in figures and letters not less than ½ in. in height and of proportionate breadth the weight of coke or coal in such sack.

7. When coke or coal is conveyed in sacks on any vehicle for delivery to a purchaser, each sack shall have securely affixed thereon in a prominent position a suitable label, on which there shall be clearly and legibly marked, in figures and letters not less than ½ in. in height and of proportionate breadth, the weight of coke or coal in such sack : Provided that this clause shall not apply if a ticket in the specified form is carried and produced as prescribed in the next succeeding clause.

8. When coke or coal is conveyed in bulk or in sacks on any vehicle for delivery to a purchaser, the seller shall provide a properly completed ticket in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule to this Part of these regulations, and the driver shall carry and produce such ticket on demand for inspection by an Inspector, the purchaser, or his representative, before any such coke or coal is removed from such sacks or vehicle : Provided that when all the coke or coal on such vehicle is for delivery to one purchaser a ticket in the form numbered 2 in the said Schedule hereto may be substituted : Provided further that this clause shall not apply if each such sack bears a label as prescribed by clause 7 hereof.

9. When coke or coal is conveyed on any vehicle in sacks for delivery to more than one purchaser, and each such sack has not a suitable label thereon as prescribed by clause 7 hereof, the driver of such vehicle shall, on demand by an Inspector, indicate the sack or sacks for delivery to each such purchaser.

10. When coke or coal is conveyed in bulk on any vehicle for delivery to a purchaser, the seller shall provide a properly completed ticket in the form No. 2 in the said Schedule hereto, and the driver shall carry and produce such ticket for inspection on demand by an Inspector, the purchaser, or his representative, before any such coke or coal is unloaded.

11. The driver of any vehicle shall not at the same time convey coke or coal in bulk for delivery to different purchasers.

12. An Inspector may at all reasonable times require the driver of any vehicle which he has reason to believe is conveying any coke or coal for sale or delivery in bulk or in sacks, or which in the opinion of the Inspector is ordinarily used for such conveyance, to stop such vehicle and to permit the Inspector to examine the same and the contents thereof. Any driver failing to stop such vehicle when so required, or to permit the Inspector to examine the same or the contents thereof, commits an offence against these regulations.

13. An Inspector (in the case of any vehicle conveying coke or coal for sale or delivery in bulk or in sacks, or in the opinion of the Inspector ordinarily used for such conveyance), and an Inspector or the purchaser (in the case of any vehicle conveying coke or coal for delivery to a purchaser in bulk or in sacks), may at any time require the driver of such vehicle to drive the vehicle to a suitable stamped weighing-machine indicated by the Inspector or the purchaser, and to cause the vehicle to be weighed with the coke or coal (if any) thereon, and after delivery of such coke or coal to cause the vehicle and any sacks in which such coke or coal was contained, if so required by the Inspector or the purchaser, to be reweighed in like manner and on the same machine.

14. An Inspector or any purchaser may at any time require the driver of any vehicle conveying or hawking coke or coal in sacks for delivery to more than one purchaser or for sale to indicate the sack or sacks for delivery to such purchaser or for sale to such purchaser, and to drive the vehicle to a suitable stamped weighing-machine indicated by the Inspector or such purchaser, and there cause such sack or sacks to be weighed.

15. The driver of any vehicle failing to drive the same to such weighing-machine as provided by clause 13 or clause 14 hereof, or failing to cause any coke or coal or vehicle to be weighed or reweighed respectively as provided by clause 13 or clause 14 hereof, commits an offence against these regulations.