SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2281

he may give or cause to be given to the proprietor, editor, printer, or publisher of any periodical notice in writing prohibiting the publication of the information described in such notice.

(2) No person to whom is given or deemed to be given a notice to the effect set out in the last preceding clause hereof shall print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, or attempt to print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, and no other person shall knowingly print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, or knowingly attempt to print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, any letterpress or graphic representation in breach of a notice given as aforesaid.

(3) If the Director of Publicity is of opinion that the publication or unrestricted publication of information in the form of letterpress or graphic representation relating to any specified topic would be prejudicial to the public safety, he may give or cause to be given to the proprietor, editor, printer, or publisher of any periodical notice in writing prohibiting the publication of information relating to the topic specified in the notice without the prior written consent of the Director of Publicity or some person acting on his behalf.

(4) No person to whom is given or deemed to be given a notice to the effect set out in the last preceding clause hereof shall print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, or attempt to print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, and no other person shall knowingly print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, or knowingly attempt to print, publish, or prepare for printing or publication, any letterpress or graphic representation relating to a topic specified in a notice given as aforesaid without the prior written consent of the Director of Publicity or some person acting on his behalf.

(5) A notice given under this regulation to the proprietor, editor, printer, or publisher of a periodical shall be deemed to be given to all of them.

(6) Any notice under this regulation shall be sufficient if addressed to the proprietor, editor, printer, or publisher of a periodical by description of his position and the name or a commonly accepted name of the periodical of which he is proprietor, editor, printer, or publisher without the addition of his personal name.

(7) Any notice under this regulation shall be sufficiently given if left at the premises where the periodical is usually printed or published with some person appearing for the time being to have the management thereof.

(8) For the purposes of this regulation a periodical shall be deemed to preserve the same identity through the succeeding issues thereof so long as it continues to have the same proprietor or the same editor or the same printer or the same publisher, notwithstanding changes in any of the other persons concerned in these capacities and notwithstanding any change in title, price, format, name, intervals of publication, or place of publication, and accordingly any notice given under this regulation shall continue to have effect notwithstanding any such change as aforesaid.

(9) Any notice given under this regulation may from time to time by like notice be revoked or modified.

(10) If any periodical the publisher of which is convicted of a breach of this regulation is a newspaper within the meaning of section 2 of the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act, 1908, it shall be

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