July 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2277

And whereas there was signed on the 4th day of May, 1910, between His Majesty and other Powers and States enumerated therein, one of whom was His Majesty the King of Denmark, a Convention for the suppression of the white slave traffic, which contains Articles in the terms following :—

“ Article 1.

“ Doit etre puni quiconque, pour satisfaire les passions d’autrui, a embauché, entrainé ou détourné, meme avec son consentement, une femme ou fille mineure, en vue de la débauche, alors meme que les divers actes qui sont les éléments constitutifs de l’infraction auraient été accomplis dans des pays différents.

“ Article 2.

“ Doit etre aussi puni quiconque, pour satisfaire les passions d’autrui, a, par fraude ou à l’aide de violences, menaces, abus d’autorité, ou toute autre moyen de contrainte, embauché, entrainé ou détourné une femme ou fille majeure en vue de la débauche, alors meme que les divers actes qui sont les éléments constitutifs de l’infraction auraient été accomplis dans des pays différents.

“ Article 5.

“ Les infractions prévues par les articles 1 et 2 seront, à partir du jour de l’entrée en vigueur de la présente Convention, reputées entre inscrites de plein droit au nombre des infractions donnant lieu à extradition d’après les Conventions déjà existantes entre les Parties contractantes.

“ Dans les cas ou la stipulation qui précède ne pourrait recevoir effet sans modifier la législation existante, les Parties contractantes s’engagent à prendre ou à proposer à leurs législatures respectives les mesures nécessaires.

“ Article 11.

“ Si un Etat contractant désire la mise en vigueur de la présente Convention dans une ou plusieurs de ses colonies, possessions ou circonscriptions consulaires judiciaires, il notifiera son intention à cet effet par un acte qui sera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement de la République francaise. Celui-ci en enverra, par la voie diplomatique, copie certifiée conforme à chacun des Etats contractants et les avisera en meme temps de la date du dépôt.

“ Six mois après la date du dépôt de l’acte de notification, la Convention entrera en vigueur dans les colonies, possessions ou circonscriptions consulaires judiciaires visées dans l’acte de notification.”

And whereas His Majesty has ratified the said Convention or acceded thereto in respect of, and the said Convention thereby extends to, the following parts of His Majesty’s dominions :—

Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Commonwealth of Australia (including Papua and Norfolk Island).
New Zealand.
Union of South Africa.
Newfoundland.
India.
Southern Rhodesia.
Bahamas.
Barbados.
British Guiana.
British Honduras.
Ceylon.
Cyprus.
Falkland Islands.
Fiji.
Gambia.
Gibraltar.
Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
Gold Coast.
Grenada.
Guernsey.
Hong Kong.
Jamaica.
Jersey.
Kenya.
Leeward Islands.
Malta.
Man, Isle of.
Mauritius.
St. Lucia.
St. Vincent.
Seychelles.
Sierra Leone.
Straits Settlements.
Trinidad.

And whereas His Majesty has been advised by His Ministers in the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa to take the necessary steps to cause the said-recited Acts to be applied in the case of Denmark in respect of the aforementioned dominions in accordance with the said Treaty as supplemented by the said Convention :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to him by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said Acts shall apply in respect of the above-mentioned parts of His Majesty’s dominions in the case of Denmark in accordance with the said Treaty as supplemented by the said Convention.

This Order shall come into operation on the 28th day of May, 1934, and may be cited as the Extradition (Denmark) (White Slave Traffic) Order in Council, 1934 :

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Provided that where His Majesty the King of Denmark has not notified his intention that the said Convention shall come into force in any of his Colonies, Possessions, or Consular Judicial Districts by a declaration to that effect deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended in respect of any such Colonies, Possessions, or Consular Judicial Districts until such declaration shall have been so deposited and no longer.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

Certificate and Declaration of Execution of Criminal.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st July, 1934.

THE following certificate and declaration are published in conformity with the provisions of the Crimes Act, 1908.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

CERTIFICATE.

I, Cyril Hocken Tewsley, the Medical Officer in attendance at the execution of William Alfred Bayly, at the prison of Mount Eden, do hereby certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution of the said William Alfred Bayly at the said prison ; and I do further certify and declare that the said William Alfred Bayly was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand, this 20th day of July, 1934, at the prison of Mount Eden.

CYRIL H. TEWSLEY, M.D., M.R.C.P.(E).

DECLARATION.

WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this day been present when the extreme penalty of the law was carried into execution on the body of William Alfred Bayly, convicted at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court held at Auckland on the 1st day of May last, and sentenced to death, and that the said William Alfred Bayly was, in pursuance of the said sentence, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Dated this 20th day of July, 1934, at the prison of Mount Eden.

C. J. HEWLETT, Sheriff.
J. DICKISON, Superintendent.
C. E. SPITTAL, Chief Warden.
S. TILL.
W. REVELL REYNOLDS.
D. C. S. TAYLOR.
G. E. BEAMISH.
G. H. MONKS.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops within the Combined District of Wellington.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the Combined District of Wellington, comprising the City of Wellington and the Town District of Johnsonville, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the said combined district, save and except the shop (hereinafter referred to as “the exempted shop”) established at 59 Cambridge Terrace, within the City of Wellington, for the purpose only of the sale of medicines and surgical appliances that are urgently required, be closed as set out below, and that subsection (4) of section 35 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, should not apply to any shop within two miles and a half of the exempted shop while medicines and surgical appliances are obtainable from the exempted shop—on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6 p.m., on Fridays at 9 p.m., and on Sundays from the hour of 7 a.m., with the following exceptions: (1) On the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Good Friday, the closing-hour shall be 9 p.m. ; (2) on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m. ; (3) on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding New Year’s Day the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m. ; (4) on the evening of each of the four working-days (other than a Friday or a Saturday) immediately preceding Christmas Eve the closing-hour shall be 8 p.m. ; (5) there shall be no fixed closing-hour on Anzac Day ; (6) should the occupier of any shop affected by this notice observe a whole or half-holiday and close his shop from not later than one o’clock in the afternoon until seven o’clock in the evening of any of the special days mentioned in section 26 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, or of 2nd January, or of the Anniversary Day of the Wellington Province, or of any day