Aug. 17.]

County Roads.

Bird (Upper) Road, Brecken Road, Brooks Road, Cardiff Road, Cheal Road, Climie Road, Cross Road, Denbigh Road, Douglas South Road, Duthie Road, Esk Road, Finnerty Road, Flint Road, Gordon Road, Hastie Road, Hastings Road, Kahouri Road, Kaiapoi Road, Kent Terrace, Kota Road, Makara Road, Makuri Road, Mangaehu No. 1 Road, Monmouth Road, New Kopua Road, Opunake Road (from No. 41 Main Highway to Waimate West County Boundary), Palmer Road, Puke-ngahu Road, Radnor Road, Raupuha Road, Robson Road, Rowan (Lower) Road, Salisbury Road, Skinner Road, Standish Road, Waihapa Road, Waingongoro Road, Wawiri Road, Wingrove Road, York Road.

Roads classified in Class Four: Available for the use thereon of any heavy motor-vehicle (other than a multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle) which, with the load it is carrying, weighs not more than 4½ tons, or any multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle which, with the load it is carrying, weighs not more than 6½ tons.

Main Highway.

Main Highway No. 471, Mangaotuku Road.

County Roads.

Ackland-Croydon Road, Ahuroa Road, Barclay Road, Bird (lower) Road, Cornwall Road, Denmark Terrace, Derby Road, Hunt Road, Kelly Street, Mangaehu Main Road, Mangaehu South Road, Manganui Road, Maruarau Road, Nash Road, Oru Road, Oruru Road, Poto Road, Puniwhakau Road, Regan Street, Ronald Road, Rowan (Upper) Road, Rutland Road, Sole Road, Stanley Road, Stanley-Cross-Croydon Road, Tututawa Road, Victoria Road, Warwick Road.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August, 1933.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 10/33.)

Rangitaiki Land Drainage.—Notice of making and levying Rates.

I, ETHELBERT ALFRED RANSOM, Minister of Lands, in the exercise of powers conferred upon me by the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments, do hereby make and levy on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act the general rates to meet maintenance costs for the period 1st April, 1933, to 31st March, 1934, as described in the First Schedule hereto, and the special rates to meet interest on capital for the period 1st April, 1933, to 31st March, 1934, as described in the Second Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on the 21st August, 1933.

The rate-book of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer's Office, Room 44, Government Buildings, Customs Street, Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

GENERAL RATES.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, twopence and three-tenths of a penny (2·3d.) in the pound.
Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and fifty-three one-hundredths of a penny (1·53d.) in the pound.
Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, seventy-seven one-hundredths of a penny (0·77d.) in the pound.
Class D: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, twenty-five one-hundredths of a penny (0·25d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SPECIAL RATES.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, threepence and forty-seven one-hundredths of a penny (3·47d.) in the pound.

B

Class B : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, twopence and thirty-two one-hundredths of a penny (2·32d.) in the pound.
Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, one penny and sixteen one-hundredths of a penny (1·16d.) in the pound.
Class D: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, thirty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (0·39d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of August, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

Extradition Treaty with Portugal.

Police Department,
Wellington, 16th August, 1933.

THE following despatch and enclosure received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs are published for general information.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.
(P. 24/1312.)

New Zealand: Circular despatch C. No. 172.
Downing Street, 6th July, 1933.

MY LORD,
With reference to my telegram No. 44 of the 3rd July, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand, the accompanying copies of an extract from the London Gazette of the 30th June containing the Portugal (Extradition) Order in Council, 1933, dated the 26th June.

I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant,
J. H. THOMAS.
Governor-General His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Bledisloe, G.C.M.G., K.B.E., &c.

PORTUGAL (EXTRADITION) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1933.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of June, 1933.
Present:
The King’s Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President. Lord Irwin.
Earl of Desart. Mr. Douglas Hacking.
Sir Dennis Herbert.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict. c. 52) to 1906 (6 Edw. VII. c. 15), 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 signed on the 17th day of October, 1892, and was subsequently ratified, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His late Majesty the King of Portugal for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals:

And whereas a further Convention was signed on the 20th January, 1932, between His Majesty and the President of the Portuguese Republic, which Convention is in the terms following:—
His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and the President of the Portuguese Republic,
Being desirous of amending Article 3 of the Treaty for the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals which was signed at Lisbon on the 17th October, 1892,
Have resolved to conclude a supplementary Convention for that purpose and to that end have appointed as their plenipotentiaries—
His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India,
For Great Britain and Northern Ireland, His Excellency Sir Claud Russell, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Republic;
For the Commonwealth of Australia, His Excellency Sir Claud Russell, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Republic;