SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2371

the parties concerned of the amount representing such value, or as to
the rate of hire to be paid, shall be referred to the arbitration of one
indifferent person if the parties can agree upon one, otherwise to the
arbitration of two arbitrators, one to be appointed by the Chief
Impressment Officer and the other by the person or persons interested
in the property, or of their umpire, in accordance with the Arbitration
Act, 1908, and the award of the arbitrator, arbitrators, or umpire, as
the case may be, shall be final.

(2) Where the dispute or difference concerns the disposition by the
Chief Impressment Officer amongst encumbrancers of the moneys
representing the assessed value of a motor-vehicle or equipment, any
such encumbrancers may be permitted to be heard upon the arbitration.

REGULATION 13.—RUNNING-COSTS, REPAIRS, AND SERVICES.

(1) The Impressment Officer shall pay to the owner a reasonable
sum (having regard to the type of motor-vehicle) for the cost of running
an impressed motor-vehicle upon any journey such motor-vehicle is
required to make for the purposes of these regulations.

(2) Every person carrying on the business of selling petrol,
lubricants, tires, spare parts, or other equipment and accessories, or
the business of a motor mechanic or motor-garage proprietor, shall,
when requested so to do by the person in charge of a motor-vehicle in
course of delivery pursuant to a warrant of impressment and on production to him of the warrant, supply without immediate payment
any goods or services within his power and necessary to enable the said
motor-vehicle to reach the place named in the warrant, and shall hand
an account for the said goods and services to the person in charge of
the said motor-vehicle for delivery with the motor-vehicle.

(3) The person in charge of a motor-vehicle shall give to the person
supplying goods or rendering services in accordance with this regulation
a receipt for or acknowledgement of the same.

(4) The Chief Impressment Officer shall examine accounts rendered
pursuant to this regulation, and may pay the same if found reasonable
and in order.

REGULATION 14.—TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES.

(1) Any person travelling in obedience to a warrant of impressment
or to a notice to repossess shall be entitled to claim the locomotion
expenses and the travelling-allowances and living-expenses set forth in
the Second Schedule hereto, and the Impressment Officer may pay the
same or, in his discretion, may issue in lieu thereof (in whole or in part)
railway or other transport warrants, meal-tickets, or other authorities
for services.

(2) In addition, and notwithstanding the provisions of Regulation
13, the Impressment Officer may pay to the person delivering a motor-
vehicle pursuant to a warrant such sums as that person satisfies the
Impressment Officer by appropriate vouchers he has necessarily dis-
bursed in cash for repairs, petrol, oil, or other goods and services in
effecting such delivery.

(3) No locomotion expenses shall be paid to a claimant under this
regulation in respect of that part of a journey travelled in a motor-
vehicle which he is delivering or of which he has taken delivery
pursuant to these regulations.