Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2303

ARTICLE 14.

(a) This Convention shall not apply, ipso facto, to Scotland or Northern Ireland, nor to any of the colonies or protectorates of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, nor to any territories administered by His Government in the United Kingdom, but His Majesty may at any time, while the Convention is in force under Article 13, by a notification given through His Minister at Vienna, extend the operation of this Convention to any of the above-mentioned territories.

(b) Such notification shall state the authorities in the territory concerned to whom requests for service or for the taking of evidence are to be transmitted, and the language in which communications and translations are to be made. The date of the coming into force of any such extension shall be one month from the date of such notification.

(c) Either of the High Contracting Parties may, at any time after the expiry of three years from the coming into force of an extension of this Convention to any of the territories referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article, terminate such extension on giving six months’ notice of termination through the diplomatic channel.

(d) The termination of the Convention under Article 13 shall, unless otherwise expressly agreed to by both High Contracting Parties, ipso facto, terminate it in respect of any territories to which it has been extended under paragraph (a) of this Article.

ARTICLE 15.

(a) The High Contracting Parties agree that His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, may at any time, while the present Convention is in force, either under Article 13 or by virtue of any accession under this Article, by a notification given through the diplomatic channel, accede to the present Convention in respect of any member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, whose Government may desire that such accession should be effected, provided that no notification of accession may be given at any time when the Federal President of the Republic of Austria has given notice of termination in respect of all the territories of His Majesty to which the Convention applies. The provisions of Article 14 (b) shall be applicable to any such notification. Any such accession shall take effect one month from the date of its notification.

(b) After the expiry of three years from the date of the coming into force of any accession under paragraph (a) of this Article either of the High Contracting Parties may, by giving a six months’ notice of termination through the diplomatic channel, terminate the application of the Convention to any country in respect of which a notification of accession has been given. The termination of the Convention under Article 13 shall not affect its application to any such country.

(c) Any notification of accession under paragraph (a) of this Article may include any dependency or mandated territory administered by the Government of the country in respect of which such notification of accession is given; and any notice of termination in respect of any such country under paragraph (b) shall apply to any dependency or mandated territory which was included in the notification of accession in respect of that country.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present Convention, in English and German texts, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate at London on the 31st day of March, 1931.

[L.S.] ARTHUR HENDERSON.
[L.S.] G. FRANCKENSTEIN.

Special Order made by the Whangaroa County Council altering Riding Boundaries and adjusting Representation.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th November, 1932.

THE following special order made by the Whangaroa County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1920.

Pursuant to section 100 of that Act, as amended by section 3 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1921–22, I hereby fix the 1st day of December, 1932, as the date on and from which the special order shall take effect.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Internal Affairs.

WHANGAROA COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ORDER.

Notice is hereby given that at a special meeting of the Whangaroa County Council, held on Monday, the 14th day of March, 1932, the following resolution was passed and will be submitted for confirmation at an ordinary meeting of the Council to be held on Monday, the 11th day of April, 1932, at 2 o’clock p.m. in the Kaeo Library Rooms, Kaeo.

Resolution.

In exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 23 of the Counties Act, 1920, the County Council of Whangaroa, resolves by way of special order as follows:—

“(1) The present division of the County of Whangaroa into eight ridings is revoked and in lieu thereof the said county shall be divided into seven ridings, arising out of the merging of the Omaunu Riding with Kaeo Riding, which said two ridings shall be called Kaeo Riding and described in Schedule hereto. The remaining ridings to be called respectively, Otangaroa Riding, Otoroa Riding, Pupuke Riding, Totara Riding, Whangaroa Riding, and Waiare Riding.

“(2) The said County Council of Whangaroa shall consist of seven members, who shall be elected as follows:—

“The electors of Kaeo Riding, Otangaroa Riding, Otoroa Riding, Pupuke Riding, Totara Riding, Whangaroa Riding, and Waiare Riding shall each elect one councillor.”

Dated at Kaeo, this 14th day of March, 1932.

PROPOSED NEW KAE0 RIDING.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District in the Whangaroa County bounded by a line commencing at a point X on the Whangaroa Harbour (midway on a straight line between the Trig. Station, St. Pauls, on the eastern side of the Harbour, and the Trig. Station, Waipuna, on the south-western side of the Harbour); thence in a south-easterly direction to the north-western corner of the Te Pato Block in Block II, Kaeo Survey District; thence in a south-easterly direction generally along the northern boundaries of the Te Pato Block, O.L.C. 881, and the Hoahoaina Block, the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of Section 7, Block III, Kaeo Survey District, the north-eastern boundaries generally of Sections 1 and 3, Block III, Kaeo Survey District, the northern and north-eastern boundaries of Lot 27 of a subdivision of Spiekman’s Grant, the north-eastern boundaries of Allotments 10, W 9, Kaeo Parish, Lot 34 of a subdivision of Spiekman’s Grant, N.E. 53, Kaeo Parish, and its production to the centre of a public road; thence in a south-westerly direction generally along the centre of a public road to a point due north of the south-eastern corner of Allotment 40, Kaeo Parish; thence along a right line to the south-eastern corner of Allotment 40 aforesaid; thence in a north-westerly direction generally down the stream forming the south-eastern and south-western boundaries of Allotment 40, Kaeo Parish, to its junction with another stream; thence down that stream and the Kaeo River to the north-western corner of Allotment 48, Kaeo Parish; thence in a southerly direction generally along the western boundaries of Allotments 48, 49, and 50, Kaeo Parish, the south-eastern boundaries of Lots 1, 2, and 3 on plan No. 23049, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, being part of Allotment 51, Kaeo Parish, the northern and south-eastern boundaries of Allotment 23, Matawheroia Parish, and the north-eastern boundary of Allotment 20, Matawheroia Parish, to the Waihuka Stream; thence up the Waihuka Stream to the northernmost corner of Allotment N.E. 8, Matawheroia Parish; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of Allotments N.E. 8 and N.E. 9, Matawheroia Parish, the north-eastern boundary of O.L.C. 270, and the western boundary of the Mokau No. 2n Block; thence in a south-westerly direction generally along the south-western boundary of Section 1, Block X, Kaeo Survey District, the south-eastern boundary of Allotment 13, Matawheroia Parish, to and across a public road and along the south-eastern boundaries of Allotments 15, S 16 (E.R.), and 17 (E.R.), Matawheroia Parish, to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned allotment; thence in a northerly direction generally along the eastern boundaries of Allotments 142, 143a, 143, S 152, M 152, N 152, and 151, Pupuke Parish, to the Omaunu Stream; thence down the Omaunu Stream and the Pupuke River to the southernmost corner of Kaingapipiwai No. 2 North B Block; thence in a north-easterly direction generally along the south-eastern boundaries of the Kaingapipiwai No. 2 North B and A Blocks, the south-western boundaries of the Pupuke P1c, P1a, and P1a Blocks, the south-eastern boundaries of Pupuke P 1a and A 1 Blocks, the south-eastern boundaries generally of Waikukupa E and B Blocks, the southern boundaries of Waikukupa C 1 and C 2 Blocks, the eastern boundaries generally of Waikukupa G and D Blocks, the southern side of a closed road and along a public road to the Kaeo River; thence down the Kaeo River and the Whangaroa Harbour to the point of commencement.

CERTIFICATE.

As required by section 100 of the Counties Act, 1920, I hereby certify that the attached Schedule is a correct