IV.-JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE FOR POOR PERSONS AND SECURITY FOR COSTS.

Article 11.

The subjects of one High Contracting Party resident in the territory of the other High Contracting Party shall not be compelled to give security for costs in any case where a subject of such other High Contracting Party would not be so compelled.

Article 12.

(1) The subjects of one High Contracting Party shall enjoy in the territory of the other High Contracting Party a perfect equality of treatment with subjects of the latter High Contracting Party as regards free legal assistance for poor persons.

(2) The provisions of this Article apply to criminal as well as to civil and commercial matters, but do not apply to artificial persons.

V.-GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Article 13.

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

Article 14.

The present Convention, of which the English and Greek texts are equally authentic, shall be subject to ratification. Ratifications shall be exchanged in Athens. 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. If neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice through the diplomatic channel to the other not less than 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.

and translations are to be made. The date of the coming into force of any such extension shall be 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' notice of termination through the diplomatic channel.

(d) The termination of the Convention under Article 14 shall, unless otherwise expressly agreed to by both High Contracting Parties, ipso jure terminate it in respect of any territories to which it has been extended under paragraph (a) of this Article.

Article 15.

(a) This Convention shall not apply ipso jure to Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, nor to any of the Colonies, overseas territories or Protectorates of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, nor to any territories under His suzerainty, nor to any mandated territories in respect of which the mandate is exercised by His Government in the United Kingdom, but His Majesty may at any time, while this Convention is in force under Article 14 by a notification given through His Minister at Athens, extended the operation of the Convention to any of the above-mentioned territories.

(b) Such notification shall state the authorities in the territory concerned to whom requests for service under Article 3 or Letters of Request under Article 7 are to be transmitted, and the language in which communications

Article 16.

(a) The High Contracting Parties agree that His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, may at any time, while the present Convention is in force, either under Article 14 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 other Member of the British Commonwealth of Nations whose Government may desire that such accession should be effected, provided that no notification of accession may be given at any time when His Majesty the King of the Hellenes has given notice of termination in respect of all the territories of His Majesty to which the Convention applies. The provisions of Article 15 (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 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 14 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 Greek texts, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate at London, the 27th day of February, 1936.

[L.S.] ANTHONY EDEN.

[L.S.] CHARALAMBOS SIMOPOULOS.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks II and III, Maruanui Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work - to wit, the construction of a road - and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Taupo and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 20th day of July, 1938.

(P.W. 70/3/22/0.)

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.