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7. The Resident Commissioner shall cause a book or books to be kept, in which shall be registered all buiidings licensed as above provided, with all the particulars stated in the application for a license. 8. The Government Surveyor or other person appointed by the Resident Commissioner in that behalf may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any such licensed building. Any member of the police may at any time while any licensed building is open to the public enter into the same for the purpose of keeping order therein and for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Ordinance. 9. Upon the Resident Commissioner being satisfied that any licensed building has become insecure or is being used in a disorderly manner so as to be obnoxious to the public or to the neighbouring inhabitants, or that it is being used for other purposes than those stated in the license, or if any picture or any representation is exhibited in such licensed building contrary to the prohibition hereinafter mentioned in section eleven, the Resident Commissioner may cancel or suspend such license either wholly or for such period as he thinks fit, and shall forthwith give notice to the licensee of such cancellation or suspension. 10. If any owner or occupier or person having the control of any such licensed building uses it or allows it to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in section two hereof, not having a license for the same, or during the time when such license is cancelled or suspended as above provided, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every such offence. 11. The Resident Commissioner or any person or committee of persons authorized by him in that behalf may prohibit the exhibition in any obscene nature, or which in the opinion of the Resident Commissioner or such person or committee of persons as aforesaid is calculated to be subversive of public morality or public order. The Resident Commissioner or such person or committee of persons shall forthwith give notice of such prohibition to the licensee of such building. 12. (1.) Every licensed building shall be closed from half-past ten o'clock at night until eight o'clock the following morning, except on Saturdays, when, subject to the provisions contained in section six hereof, it shall be closed from eleven o'clock at night until eight o'clock the following Monday morning. The Resident Commissioner may in writing consent to any licensed building being kept open upon such occasion and for such time beyond the hours of closing as aforesaid as the Resident Commissioner may from time to time deem expedient. (2.) No entertainment shall be given or game played in any licensed building during the hours the said licensed building is required to be closed. (3.) Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds who being the proprietor or manager of any licensed building fails to close the said licensed building as aforesaid, or permits any entertainment to be given or game played therein during the hours the licensed building is required to be closed. (4.) Every person found in any licensed building during the hours the said licensed building is required to be closed is liable, unless he satisfies the Court that he was lawfully there, to a fine not exceeding two pounds. (5.) Smoking shall not be allowed in any licensed building other than a public billiard-room during such time as such licensed building is open to the public. Every person infringing the provisions of this subsection is liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds. 13. For the purposes of this Ordinance "public biliiard-room " means a billiard-room where billiards or any similar games are played for payment, and the words "licensed building" shall include such part of a building as to which a license has been issued under this Ordinance without reference to any other part of the said building. 14. This Ordinance shall not apply to any building used exclusively for purposes of public worship, or to any Courthouse or Court-room the property of the Government. Passed by the Federal Council this twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and twelve. S. Savage, Approved. Clerk to Council. J. Eman Smith, Resident Commissioner. Assented to in the name and on behalf of His Majesty. 25th May, 1912. Islington, Governor.

AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE IMPORTATION AND SALE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION. No. 12. It was considered expedient to pass the following Ordinance. There is in the greater number of the Cook Islands no game to justify the large number of firearms owned by the Natives, and the Ordinance will minimize the danger of gun-accidents happening. J. Eman Smith, Resident Commissioner.

Federal Ordinance No. 35.—An Ordinance to Regulate the Importation into and the Sale or Firearms and Ammunition within the Cook Islands. Be it enacted by the Federal Council of the Cook Islands as follows : — 1. The Short Title of this Ordinance is the Importation and Sale of Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1912. 2. On and after the date of the publication of this Ordinance in the Cook Islands Gazette it shall not be iawful for any person (other than is authorized by this Ordinance) to import into the Cook Islands, or to sell or expose or keep for sale therein, any firearms, or any cartridges, cartridgecases, gunpowder, bullets, shot, or other ammunition.

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