May 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1433

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 2nd May, 1928.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the City of Christchurch, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Loan Poll.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and section 32 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, we hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of that part of the City of Christchurch named Richmond Hall and Library Special-rating Area, taken on the 28th day of March, 1928, on the proposal of the Christchurch City Council to borrow the sum of seven thousand one hundred and forty pounds (£7,140) for the acquisition of the Old Richmond School site and the laying-out and equipping of same for use as a children’s playground, also for the purpose of reconstructing the brick building on the site for use as a public hall and library.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 325; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 444; and we declare the proposal to be rejected.

J. K. ARCHER, Mayor.
J. S. NEVILLE, Returning Officer.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 1st May, 1928.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Golden Bay Electric-power Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

THE GOLDEN BAY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at separate polls taken on Saturday, the 14th day of April, 1928, for authority to raise special loans of £21,500 for the purpose of providing for the cost of a hydro-electric-power scheme and £3,500 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to the consumers of electric power, the results were as follows:—

1. Special Loan, £21,500.

For the proposal, 118 votes; against the proposal, 48 votes; informal, 1 vote.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

2. Special Loan, £3,500.

For the proposal, 118 votes; against the proposal, 48 votes; informal, 1 vote.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

FRANK HAYES, Chairman.

Declaring Tires to be superresilient for the Purposes of the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, I, Robert Alexander Wright, for the Minister of Public Works, do hereby declare the tire hereunder described to be superresilient for the purposes of the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, until and unless the substance of the said tire is so worn as to cause it to lose the character of superresilience.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of April, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/26/2.)

Extradition Treaty with Albania.

Police Department,
Wellington, 1st May, 1928.

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. 150.

Downing Street,
23rd March, 1928.

SIR,—

With reference to my telegram No. 27 of the 12th March, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand, copies of an extract from the London Gazette of the 16th March, containing a notice issued by the Foreign Office regarding the application to certain Dominions and India of the Extradition Treaty with Albania of the 22nd July, 1926.

I have, &c.,

L. S. AMERY.

Governor-General, His Excellency, General Sir C. Ferguson, Bart., LL.D, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., &c.

EXTRADITION TREATY OF 22ND JULY, 1926, BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ALBANIA.

Foreign Office,
8th March, 1928.

Whereas by the “Albania (Extradition) Order in Council, 1927,” it was provided that from and after the 11th day of July, 1927, the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, should apply in the case of the Albanian Republic under and in accordance with the Treaty concluded on the 22nd day of July, 1926, between His Majesty and the President of the Albanian Republic:

And whereas it was further provided by the said Order in Council that the operation of the said Acts should be and remain suspended within the self-governing Dominions herein-after named, that is to say, the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland, and India, until notification should have been made in the London Gazette that the Treaty had been made applicable thereto, and that on such notification being made in respect of any such Dominion or India the said Acts should apply in such Dominion or India in the case of the Albanian Republic, under and in accordance with the said Treaty as from the date of the said notification:

Now, therefore, it is hereby notified that the said Treaty has been made applicable to the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Newfoundland, and India, as and from the present date, viz:—the 8th day of March, 1928.

AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
His Majesty’s Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.

By-laws, Eskdale to Tutira Section, East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, I, Kenneth Stuart Williams, Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the by-laws to be enforced on the Eskdale to Tutira Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto, such by-laws to come into force on the twelfth day of May, 1928, from which date all previous by-laws fixed or imposed in respect of the said railway or any portion thereof are declared to be hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE by-laws to be enforced on the Eskdale to Tutira Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as those made by the Minister of Railways on the 29th day of May, 1909, for the management of the railways open for traffic in the Dominion of New Zealand, and for the regulation and control of all traffic on or upon the same (hereinafter called “the Railway Department’s By-laws”), a copy of which by-laws has been published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 47 of the 10th day of June, 1909, as altered and extended from time to time by publication in the New Zealand Gazette.