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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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stituted under “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” consistently with the powers in that behalf contained in “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and the amendments thereof:—

1. “Heavy traffic” under these by-laws means—

(a.) The transportation of any vehicle, engine, or machine which shall itself or together with any thing or things being transported thereon weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois on each pair of wheels;

(b.) The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks, notwithstanding that such vehicle or thing may separately or together with any load thereon weigh less than one and a half tons avoirdupois.

2. No firewood shall (except in conformity with the schedule to by-law No. 4 hereunder) be conveyed in any vehicle, wagon, or cart on, over, or upon any road or roads under the care, control, or authority of the Patea West Road Board or the Patea East Road Board between the following days in each year: that is to say, the 14th day of May and the 14th day of September.

3. No heavy traffic shall be conveyed over any road under the control of the Patea West Road Board or the Patea East Road Board in any manner howsoever, or by any means whatsoever, between the 14th day of May and the 14th day of September in each year.

4. For the purposes of computation under these by-laws in all or any cases or case which may arise hereunder regarding the conveyance or transportation of firewood or other heavy traffic on, over, or upon any road or roads under the care, control, or authority of the Patea West Road Board or the Patea East Road Board, the said Road Boards, in conformity with the provisions of section 13 of “The Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1900,” hereby prescribe that the quantity of firewood, timber, agricultural produce, mineral, or material of any description whatsoever set forth in the schedule hereunder shall be deemed to be of the weight or measurement, with the vehicle conveying or transporting the same, of one and a half tons avoirdupois.

One-third of a cord of wood, eight four-bushel bags of wheat, eight four-bushel bags of maize, eight four-bushel bags of barley, ten four-bushel bags of oats, ten four-bushel bags of potatoes, four hundred superficial feet of sawn timber, half a yard of gravel, clay, or earth, four undumped bales of wool. And in the case of any other goods, merchandise, or ingredients not computed and included in the foregoing schedule, a load not exceeding eighteen hundred-weight exclusive of the vehicle whereupon the same is conveyed or transported.

5. The driver of any machine or vehicle shall, upon request from any person duly authorised by the Patea West Road Board or the Patea East Road Board, give information as to the load or contents thereof, and the quality, weight, size, or measurement of the same, or shall give information to the person authorised as aforesaid enabling him to ascertain the same.

6. Any corporation, partnership, or person committing a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3 for the first breach thereof, a penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £5 for the second breach thereof, and a penalty of not less than £3 nor more than £5 for the third or any subsequent breach thereof.

Patea West Road Board. Patea East Road Board.
W. C. SYMES, W. DERRETT,
Chairman. Chairman.
E. C. HORNER, [SEAL.] E. C. HORNER, [SEAL.]
Secretary. Secretary.

I hereby certify that the above special orders have been duly passed in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
E. C. HORNER,
Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wirokino Road Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th May, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Wirokino Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”
J. G. WARD,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

WIROKINO ROAD BOARD.

Result of poll of ratepayers of Kara Special Rating District taken on Wednesday, the 14th day of May, 1902, on the proposal to borrow £1,000, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of acquiring land and constructing a road to be known as Kara Road:—

Number of valid votes recorded, 25: Number of valid votes for the proposal, 13; number of valid votes against the proposal, 12.

The number of valid votes recorded for the proposal being less than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the poll not carried.

Dated this 17th day of May, 1902.
JNO. DAVIES,
Chairman, Wirokino Road Board, Levin.

Despatch.—Belgian Extradition Treaty.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th May, 1902.

THE following despatch and enclosure, received from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.
JAS. MCGOWAN.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 27th March, 1902.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of an order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated the 6th of March, 1902, bringing into operation as from the 17th instant a treaty between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Belgians for the mutual extradition of criminals, which was signed at Brussels on the 29th of October, 1901, and of which the ratifications were exchanged at that city on the 6th of December, 1901.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

BELGIAN EXTRADITION TREATY.

Saint James’s, 6th March, 1902.

At the Court at Saint James’s, the 6th day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD PRESIDENT, EARL OF KINTORE, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD, SIR ARTHUR WILSON.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it is amongst other things enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Majesty’s dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas a treaty was concluded on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Belgians for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which treaty is in the terms following:—

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, having mutually resolved to conclude a new treaty for the extradition of criminals, the said high contracting parties have named as their plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty for this purpose, that is to say:—

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India, Constantine Phipps, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians; and

His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Baron de Favereau, Knight of his Order of Leopold, Member of the Senate, his Minister of Foreign Affairs:

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:—

ARTICLE I.

It is agreed that His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Belgians shall, on requisition made in their name by their respective diplomatic agents, deliver up to each other reciprocally, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty, any persons who, being accused or convicted, as principals or accessories, of any of the crimes hereinafter specified, committed within the territories of the requiring party, shall be found within the territories of the other party:—

1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder, in cases jointly provided for by the laws of the two countries.