WAR REGULATION ACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1915, Page 3

WAR REGULATION ACT.

TIIES POSSESSION OF FIREARMS. /NISW REGULATIONS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A Gazette Extraordinary contains additional regulations under tiie 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. Xo person shall, whether as principal or agent, sell, transfer, or supply to, or procure any dream or ammunition, save in pursuance of a permit issued under tiiis regulation. Every such permit shall be signed and issued by a superintendent or inspector of police, and shall specify, the nature, number, or amount of firearms so authorised to be sold, purchased or transferred, and the names and addresses of parties to the -transaction. The Minister of Defence may, by a notice published in the Gazette, declare any area specified an area in which possessions of firearms or ammunition without a permit is prohibited, and. may cancel any such notice with respect to the whole or any part area so specified. No person shall carry firearms or other dangerous weapons except for some lawful, .proper, and sufficient purpose, and the -burden of proving the existence of such purpose shall be upon accused. No person, without written permission of a superintendent or inspector of police, shall on or in the vicinity of a railway dock, wharf, harbor, or 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 anv firearms, ammunition, explosives, or dangerous weapons, which may be carried by Jiim, and may detain him for the purposes of such search.

11l these regulations tlic terms "firearms" and "ammunition" shall not include:—(a) Shotguns of a kind ordinarily used in New Zealand lor sporting purposes; (b) ammunition for such shotguns; (c) firearms or ammunition belonging to and supplied by any department and executive of the Government and lawfully in possession of any meraber of the defence of police force, or any other persons the Minister of Defence may declare. Any highway adjoining or intersecting any camp of military training or exercise is closed to traffic, except with consent of the military authorities. The Gazette further prohibits the importation of newspapers called: "Direct Action and Solidarity," and all other pnnted'matter published or printed by, or on behalf of, the society known as the Industrial Workers of the World.