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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.—
Notice No. Ag. 2671.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th September, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
James Walter Blyde
to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds
Act, 1908, for the New Plymouth Borough, the appointment
to date as from the 8th September, 1927.
O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.
Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1927.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint
Ernest Cargill Cutten, Esquire, S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Kaipara, vice F. H. Levien, Esquire, S.M., on leave.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.
Members of Licensing Committee appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th September, 1927.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint
Josiphiah Wedgewood Boon, Esquire,
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Stratford, vice C. D. Sole, Esquire, deceased, and
William Dickson Harkness, Esquire,
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Nelson.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.
Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1927.
IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have
been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of
Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set re-
spectively opposite their names, viz.:—
William Kenneth Howell ... Taupo.
George Eric Kay ... Brunner.
James Lockhart ... Tuakau.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.
Appointments in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 8th September, 1927.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service:—
William James Kerr Taylor, Esquire,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Tokaanu, as from the 3rd September,
1927.
Francis Albert Dale, Esquire,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Bethlehem,
as from the 7th April, 1927.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.
Appointment of Deputy District Public Trustee.
NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the power
and authority vested in me by section 3 of the Public
Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, I, the Public Trustee
of the Dominion of New Zealand, have appointed James
Pearson White of the Public Trust Office, Whangarei, to be
deputy of the District Public Trustee, Whangarei, during the
absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters,
and all previous appointments in this behalf are hereby
revoked.
Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 1927.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.
Extradition Treaty with Albania.
Police Department,
Wellington, 8th September, 1927.
THE following despatch and enclosure received from His
Majesty’s Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs are
published for general information.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.
(P. 24/1312.)
NEW ZEALAND.
Dominions No. 401.
Downing Street, 19th July, 1927.
SIR,—With reference to my despatch Dominions No. 303 of
the 20th May, I have the honour to transmit, for the
information of His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand,
copies of the Albania (Extradition) Order in Council, 1927,
dated the 27th June.
I have, &c.,
L. S. AMERY.
Governor-General His Excellency
General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart.,
LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., &c.
[Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, 1st July, 1927.]
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of
June, 1927.
Present:
The King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President.
Lord Chamberlain.
Lord Colebrooke.
Lt. Col. Hon. G. F. Stanley.
Major G. C. Tryon.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 (a) to 1906 (b), it was
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 22nd day of
July, 1926, between His Majesty and the President of the
Albanian Republic 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 and of the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Emperor of India; and His Excellency the President
of the Albanian Republic; having determined, by common
consent, to conclude a treaty for the extradition of criminals,
have accordingly named as their plenipotentiaries:
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Emperor of India:—
William Edmund O'Reilly, Esq., His Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Albanian Republic;
And His Excellency the President of the Albanian Republic:
Monsieur Hussein Vrioni, Minister for Foreign Affairs
and Minister of Justice ad interim;
Who, after having exhibited to each other their respective
full powers, and found them in good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles:—
ARTICLE 1.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each
other, under certain circumstances and conditions stated in
the present Treaty, those persons who, being accused or
convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in
Article 2, committed within the jurisdiction of the one Party,
shall be found within the territory of the other Party.
ARTICLE 2.
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following
crimes or offences:—

1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide,
   poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to
   procure the miscarriage of women.
4. Rape.
   (a) 33 & 34 V. c. 52.
   (b) 6 E. 7. c. 15.