NEW WAR REGULATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 22 September 1915, Page 8

NEW WAR REGULATIONS.

A Gazette Extraordinary contains additional regulations under the War Regulations Act by order of the military authority. Any alien .suspected of being disaffected and dangerous may be arrested and detained. No .person shall incite, encourage. advise, or advocate violence, lawlessness, or disorder, or express any seditious intention. No person shall, whether as principal >r agent, seD, transfer, or supply to or procure any firearm or ammunition save in pursuance of a. permit issued tinder Ithis regualtion. Every such permit shall be signed and issued by the Superintendent or Inspector of Police, and shall specify the nature, number, or amount of firearms so authorised or to be sold, purchased or transacted, and the names and addresses of the parties to the tansaction. The Minister for Defence may by a notice published in the Gazette, declare that any area specified an area in which the possession of firearms or ammunition without pearmit is prohibited, may cancel any such notice with respect to the whole or any part of the area so specified. No person shall carry a firearm c.r other dangerous weapon, except for some lawful, proper, and sufficient purpose, and the burden of proving the existence of such a purpose shall be upen the accused. No person without unwritten permission from the superintendent or inspector cf police shal!l on or in the vicinity of a railway, dock, wharf, harbour, >,r ship, have in his possession any explosive substance or highly inflammable liquid in quantities exceeding the immediate requirements of his business or occupation. Any constable may search any person for any firearms, ammunition, explosives, or dangerous weapons which j may be carried by him, and may detain him for the purposes of such search. In these regulations the terms " ih\<arms" and "ammunition" shall not include shotguns of the kind ordinarily used in Xew Zealand for sporting purposes: (b) ammunition for sv.di shotguns; (c) firearms >r nmmuninon beloiging to or supplied by any department of the Executive Government and lawfully in the possession of any member of the Defence or police fore,. 0 ? any other person. The Minister for Deforce m«:y declare any highway adjoining or infer- i seeting a camp of military rrahiing' or j exercise as closed for traffic, except with the consent of. the military authorities. The Gazette further prohibits the importation of newspapers called '-Direct Action" and "Solidarity," and all other printed matter published or printed by or on behalf of a society known as the Industr-cl Workers of the World.