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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

Article 13.

(a) The present Convention shall not apply ipso facto to Scotland or Northern Ireland, nor to any of His Majesty’s Colonies or Protectorates, nor to any territories under His suzerainty, nor to any mandated territories administered by His Government in Great Britain, but His Majesty may at any time, while the Convention is in force under Article 12, by a notification given through His Minister at The Hague, extend the operation of the present 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 three months 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 12 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 14.

(a) This Convention shall not apply ipso facto to any of the overseas territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands may at any time, while the Convention is in force under Article 12, or by virtue of any accession under Article 15, extend this Convention to any of such overseas territories by a notification given through Her Minister in London.

(b) The provisions of paragraph (b) of Article 13 shall apply to any such notifications.

(c) The provisions of paragraphs (c) and (d) of Article 13 shall apply to any overseas territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to which this Convention has been extended.

Article 15.

(a) His Majesty may at any time, while the present Convention is in force, either under Article 12, 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 of His self-governing Dominions or India, provided that no notification of accession may be given at any time when Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands has given notice of termination in respect of all the territories of His Majesty to which the Convention applies. The provisions of Article 13 (b) shall be applicable to any such notification. Any such accession shall take effect three months 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 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 12 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 Dutch texts, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate at London, the 31st day of May, 1932.

[1.s.]
JOHN SIMON.
R. DE MAREES VAN SWINDEREN.

Unit redesignated.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, under section 6 (a), Defence Act, 1909, that the designation of the “New Zealand Permanent Air Force” be changed to “Royal New Zealand Air Force.”

Dated 27th February, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, as to the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Mataura.

WHEREAS the Mayor of the local authority of the separate district of the Borough of Mataura has duly notified me that the said local authority has decided, pursuant to the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, that Saturday shall be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said separate district :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said Act, I, Adam Hamilton, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Saturday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the Borough of Mataura on and from the 19th day of March, 1934.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of February, 1934.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Labour.

Notice to Mariners No. 13 of 1934.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st March, 1934.

ALTERATION IN SUMMER TIME.

MARINERS are hereby informed that the period of summer time prescribed by the Summer Time Act, 1929, has been altered by the Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933. The period now begins on the last Sunday in September and ends on the last Sunday in April.

Publications affected: New Zealand Pilot, 1930, page 30; Admiralty List of Lights, Part VI, 1933, note on page 545; Admiralty List of Wireless Signals, Vol. 2, 1931, note on page 181; New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, pages 128 and 155.

(M. 25/1933.)

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

The Reverend Robert George Hooper Orchard (deceased).

Daniel Bailey Orchard (deceased).

PURSUANT to the Trustee Act, 1925 (England), all persons claiming to be interested in the estate of the Reverend Robert George Hooper Orchard, late of Oxford, in the County of Oxford, England, Clerk, deceased, who died on the 7th August, 1865, at Barwood, near the City of Oxford aforesaid, and whose will was proved in the Principal Probate Registry in London, England, on the 15th December, 1865, as being children or representatives of the estates of children of the late Daniel Bailey Orchard, the brother of the said Robert George Hooper Orchard, formerly of Somerset, England, and afterwards of Auckland, New Zealand, who died in Auckland, New Zealand, on the 29th August, 1899, are hereby required to send particulars in writing of their claims to the undersigned before the 10th May, 1934, after which date the trustees of the said will will proceed to distribute the estate having regard only to the claims then received.

Dated this 15th day of February, 1934.

A. S. FAIRE, District Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office, 147 Albert Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

Notice to make Returns of Land under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the above Act and the regulations made thereunder, every person and company within the meaning of the said Act, whether a taxpayer or not, being owner of land in New Zealand, is hereby required to make and furnish to me, in the prescribed form, returns of such land as at 12 o’clock noon on the 31st day of March, 1934.

If the total unimproved value of the land of any person or company, as assessed under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925, does not exceed £500, a return of land need not be furnished.

And, further, notice is hereby given that such returns shall in all cases be delivered at or forwarded to the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, in the Government Buildings at Wellington, on or before the 9th day of April, 1934.

C. E. DOWLAND,
Commissioner of Taxes.

NOTE.—Forms of return may be obtained at any post-office.

SPECIAL NOTE.—Any person failing to furnish a return at the prescribed time is liable to a penalty up to £100.