(d) The evidence may be taken in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law of the country in which the evidence is to be used, and the parties will have the right to be present or to be represented by barristers or solicitors of that country or by any persons competent to appear before the tribunals of either of the countries concerned.

Article 12.

(a) The competent court to whom "Letters of Request" are addressed may also be requested to appoint a person to take the evidence, and on being so requested may appoint such a person. Such person may be a consular officer of the High Contracting Party for whose judicial authority the evidence is required or any other person proposed by such judicial authority.

(b) In this case the court applied to shall take the necessary steps to secure the attendance of and giving of evidence by witnesses and other persons to be examined and the production of documents, making use, if necessary, of its compulsory powers.

(c) The person thus appointed shall have power to administer an oath, and any person giving false evidence before him shall be liable in the courts of the country where the evidence is taken to the penalties provided by the law of that country for perjury.

(d) The evidence shall be taken in accordance with the law of the country in which the evidence is to be used, provided such method is not contrary to the law of the country where the evidence is being taken, and the parties shall have the right to be present in person or be represented by barristers or solicitors of that country or by any persons who are competent to appear before the courts of either of the countries concerned.

Article 13.

The fact that an attempt to take evidence by the method laid down in Article 11 has failed owing to the refusal of any witness to appear to give evidence, or to produce documents, does not preclude an application being subsequently made in accordance with Articles 9 or 12.

IV.—GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Article 14.

Any difficulties which may arise in connection with the operation of this Convention shall be settled through the diplomatic channel.

Article 15.

The present Convention, of which the English and Italian texts are equally authentic, shall be subject to ratification. Ratifications shall be exchanged in London. The Convention shall come into force one month after the date on which ratifications are exchanged and shall remain in force for three years after the date of its coming into force. In case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other six months before the expiration of the said period of three years of his intention to terminate the Convention, it shall remain in force until the expiration of six months from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to terminate it.

Article 16.

(a) This Convention shall not apply, ipso facto, to Scotland or Northern Ireland, nor to any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies or Protectorates, nor to any territories under his suzerainty, nor to any mandated areas administered by his Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but His Britannic Majesty may at any time by a notification given through his Ambassador at Rome, extend the operation of this Convention to any of the abovementioned territories.

(b) Such notification shall state the date on which the extension shall come into force, the authorities in the territory concerned to whom judicial and extra-judicial documents and "Letters of Request" 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 not be less than 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' previous notice.

Article 17.

(a) This Convention shall not apply, ipso facto, to any of the Colonies or Protectorates of the Kingdom of Italy, but His Majesty the King of Italy may at any time extend this Convention to any of such Colonies or Protectorates by a notification given through his Ambassador in London.

(b) The provisions of paragraph (b) of Article 16 shall apply to any such notification.

(c) The provisions of paragraph (c) of Article 16 shall apply to any Colonies or Protectorates of the Kingdom of Italy to whom this Convention has been extended.

Article 18.

(a) His Britannic Majesty may at any time, by a notification given through the diplomatic channel, accede to the present Convention in respect of any of His self-governing Dominions or India. The provisions of Article 16 (b) shall be applicable to such notification. Any such accession shall take effect one month after 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 six months' notice, terminate the application of the Convention to any country in respect of which such notification of accession has been given. The termination of the Convention under Article 16 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 area administered by the Government of the country in respect of which such notification of accession is given; and any notice of termination under paragraph (b) shall apply to any such dependency or mandated area which was included in the notification of accession in respect of the country to which such notice of termination applies.

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

Done in duplicate at London, the 17th day of December, 1930.

[L.S.] ARTHUR HENDERSON.
[L.S.] A. C. BORDONARO.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand in connection with British International Association, Zoppot, Danzig.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the organization and person whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 32 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, that no money-order in favour of the said organization or person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said organization or person (either by its or his own or any fictitious or assumed name) or addressed to either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

BRITISH International Association, Zoppot, Danzig.
Paul Heinze, 22 Menzelstr., Friedenau, Berlin, Germany.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 1933.

ADAM HAMILTON, Postmaster-General.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendment, prohibiting the Sale within the Borough of Hastings of Certain Goods comprised in the Trade of a Grocer.

WHEREAS a petition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the grocers' shops within the Borough of Hastings, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the sale of certain goods comprised in the trade of a grocer—namely, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, flour, spices, condiments, candles, cornflour, oatmeal, oatina, creamoata, sardines and other tinned fish, soda, soap (other than toilet soap), starch, and blue—be prohibited during such time as the said shops are required to be closed in pursuance of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22 :

And whereas I, Adam Hamilton, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the sale of the said goods is comprised in the said trade within the said borough, and that the signatures to such petition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 33 of the said Act, I do hereby direct that on and after the 27th day of February, 1933, the sale of the said goods within the said borough shall be and is hereby prohibited as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, after the hour of 5.30 p.m., and on Fridays and Saturdays after the hour of 9 p.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of February, 1933.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Labour.