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Agreement for Grant of Easement for Water Pipe-line in favour
of Herbert Johnson over Part Section 8, Block II, Heao
Survey District, taken for the Purposes of the Stratford Main
Trunk Railway, assented to.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the 13th day of
June, 1931, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 47 of the 18th day of the same month, portions of land
containing 4 acres o roods 28:25 perches, being part Sections
17 and 8, Block II, Heao Survey District, were taken for the
purposes of the Stratford Main Trunk Railway and for a
road-diversion in connection therewith:
And whereas Herbert Johnson, of Tokirima, Farmer, was
entitled to compensation in respect of his leasehold interest
in the said land:
And whereas the Minister of Public Works agreed to grant,
and the said Herbert Johnson agreed to accept, an easement
for a water pipe-line over the said land described in the
Schedule hereto as part satisfaction of such compensation:
Now, therefore, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, the Minister of
Public Works, do hereby give notice, in pursuance of section
97 of the Public Works Act, 1928, that I assent to the above
agreement.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land affected : 20:4 perches.
Being railway land (part Section 8), Block II, Heao Survey
District.
In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 84118,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of February, 1933.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 8/64/7.)

Kaitaia Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th January, 1933.
IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and
the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments,
the ratepayers within the rating areas constituted by the
last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 3lst
March, 1933, unpaid on the 14th March, 1933.
Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the
Collector of Rates, Box 1659, Auckland C. 1.
E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/42/5.)

Hauraki Plains Rating District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th January, 1933.
IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and
the Hauraki Plains Act, 1926, the ratepayers within
the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby
notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all
rates for the year ending 3lst March, 1933, unpaid on 13th
March, 1933.
Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the
Collector of Rates, P.O. Box 1659, Auckland C. 1.
E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/13/154.)

Waihi Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th January, 1933.
IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and
the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments,
the ratepayers within the rating areas constituted by the
last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 3lst
March, 1933, unpaid on the 14th March, 1933.
Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the
Collector of Rates, Box 1659, Auckland C. 1.
E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/24/1.)

Extension to New Zealand of Convention between the United
Kingdom and Italy respecting Legal Proceedings in Civil
and Commercial Matters.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th February, 1933.
IT is hereby notified for general information that the
Convention between the United Kingdom and Italy
regarding Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters,
signed at London on the 17th day of December, 1930, and
in respect of which ratifications were exchanged at London
on the 7th day of June, 1932, has been extended to the
Dominion of New Zealand pursuant to the provisions of
Article 18 of the said Convention, as from the 5th day of
December, 1932.
The authority to which requests for service or for the
taking of evidence are to be transmitted is the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, and communications should be
addressed to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington
in the English language.
The text of the said Convention is set out hereunder.
JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

CONVENTION.

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the
British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and
His Majesty the King of Italy, being desirous to render mutual
assistance in the conduct of legal proceedings, in their respective territories, in civil and commercial matters which are
being dealt with by their respective judicial authorities,
have resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose and
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:
The Right Honourable Arthur Henderson, M.P., His Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
His Majesty the King of Italy:
Monsieur Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in London;
Who, having communicated their full powers, found in good
and due form, have agreed as follows:

I.—PRELIMINARY.

Article 1.

This Convention applies only to civil and commercial matters.

II.—SERVICE OF JUDICIAL AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL DOCUMENTS.

Article 2.

When judicial or extra-judicial documents drawn up in
any of the territories (to which this Convention applies) of
one of the High Contracting Parties are to be served on persons
(including corporations) in any territory (to which this Convention applies) of the other, such documents may, at the option of the party interested, be served on the recipient in any of the ways provided in Articles 3 and 4.

Article 3.

(a) The request for service shall be transmitted—
In Italy, by a British consular officer to the Procuratore Generale presso la Corte d'Appello of the district in which the document is to be served;
In England, by an Italian consular officer to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England.
(b) The request, containing the name of the authority from which the document transmitted emanates, the names and descriptions of the parties, the address of the recipient, and the nature of the document in question, shall be drawn up in the language of the country in which the documents are to be served. The document to be served shall be drawn up in the language of the country in which it is to be served, or be accompanied by a translation in such language. The said translation shall be certified as correct by a diplomatic or consular agent of the High Contracting Party making the request, or by an official or sworn translator of one or other of the two countries concerned.
(c) Service shall be effected by the competent authority of the country where it is to be served, who shall serve the document in the manner prescribed by the municipal law of such country for the service of similar documents, or, should a wish to that effect be expressed in the request, in a special form which is not incompatible with such law. If the authority to whom a document has been transmitted is not