expressly prohibited by any Act or by any instrument of trust, make

to the Board or to any Provincial Council, and the Board or the Council
may accept, donations or gifts of real or personal property for the
approved purposes of its Fund.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Savings-bank
Act, 1908, the trustees of any savings-bank may from time to time,
with the consent first obtained of the Minister of Finance, make con-
tributions to any such fund for the approved purposes thereof out of
the surplus profits of the bank.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the term “local authority”
means a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government
Loans Board Act, 1926, whether by virtue of section 2 of that Act,
or of any Order in Council thereunder, or by virtue of the provisions
of any other Act; and includes such other public bodies as are from
time to time declared by the Governor-General in Council to be local
authorities for the purposes of this regulation.

REGULATION 33.—SPECIAL PROVISION re MONEYS AND GOODS
HERETOFORE COLLECTED.

(1) Where any person or body of persons (hereinafter in this regu-
lation called the donee) has, by means of public appeal or otherwise
howsoever, collected or in any other manner raised or acquired money
or goods for any patriotic purpose or for the purpose of any work
which the donee proposes to do in connection with the war, the donee
shall—

    (a) Within fourteen days after the commencement of these
    regulations, forward to the Minister and to the Provincial
    Council a statement showing with respect to all such
    moneys and goods—

        (i) The total amount of such moneys and the purposes
        for which they were raised;

        (ii) Particulars of such goods, specifying the number or
        quantity of each class or kind thereof and the purposes
        for which they were acquired; and

    (b) Hold the same in trust for disposal in such manner and for
    such approved patriotic purposes as the Provincial Council
    directs.

(2) The provisions of the last preceding clause shall apply to
moneys and goods promised before but not received by the donee
until after the commencement of these regulations with this modifica-
tion: that the statement prescribed by paragraph (a) of that clause
shall be forwarded within fourteen days after the receipt of any such
moneys or goods.

REGULATION 34.—MEMBERS OF BOARD AND PROVINCIAL COUNCILS
AND CONTROLLING COMMITTEES NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE.

No member of the Board or of any Provincial Council, or of any
controlling committee, shall be personally liable for any act or default
done or made by the Board, Council, or committee or any member
thereof in good faith in the course of the operations of the Board,
Council, or controlling committee.

REGULATION 35.—GENERAL PENALTY.

Every person who commits any breach of the provisions of any
of these regulations, or of any order or direction of any person
authorized by or under these regulations to make or give such
order or direction, or who for the benefit of himself or any other
person makes any false or misleading statement to or otherwise
misleads or attempts to mislead any person duly acting for any
purpose under these regulations, commits an offence, and where no
penalty for such offence is provided elsewhere in these regulations
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of £20 and, where
the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine of £5 for every day
during which such offence continues.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: E. V. PAUL, Government Printer, Wellington.