3818
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 139

extend an Order in Council made the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, for a further period of twelve months, prohibiting all alienations of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

Orete N Block: Approximate area, 4 acres 0 roods 17 perches; Whangaparaoa Survey District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under Section 29 of the Finance Act, 1916 (relating to Objections to Assessments of Excess-profits Duty).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1916 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said section.

REGULATIONS.

1. WHERE a taxpayer has duly elected to have an objection to the assessment of excess-profits duty heard and determined by a Board of Appeal constituted under section 29 of the said Act, the Commissioner shall forthwith state and sign a case setting forth the facts as alleged by him, the nature of the assessment made by him, the grounds of objection thereto, and the questions for the determination of the Board of Appeal.

2. A copy of the case so stated and signed shall be served upon the taxpayer (hereinafter referred to as “the appellant”) either personally or by registered letter addressed to him at his last known place of business or abode.

3. Within fourteen days after the service upon the appellant of a copy of the case so stated as aforesaid, or within such further time as the Commissioner may allow, the appellant may, if he thinks fit, deliver to the Commissioner an answer to the case.

4. Upon receipt of such answer, or upon the expiry of the time allowed for such answer, the Commissioner shall transmit the case stated and the appellant’s answer thereto (if any) to the President of the Board of Appeal appointed under the said section, who shall thereupon appoint a time and place for the hearing of the objection, and shall give to the Commissioner and to the appellant not less than fourteen days’ notice of the time and place so fixed.

5. At the time and place so appointed the President of the Board of Appeal or, in his absence, the Secretary of the Board may adjourn the hearing to any other time or place, and so on from time to time.

6. If either party fails to appear at the hearing the Board may, in its discretion, either adjourn the hearing or determine the objection in the same manner as if both parties were present.

7. The procedure at the hearing of the objection shall be the same, with all necessary modifications, as if the objection were an action in the Supreme Court in which the appellant was plaintiff and the Commissioner was defendant.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting the Control of certain Reserves in the Otago Land Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. L. HERDMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, as amended by section six of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1916, it is enacted that in respect of any lands set apart in the South Island of New Zealand to make provision for landless Natives, or permanently reserved by Proclamation for the purpose of providing land for landless Natives, whether under the South Island Landless Natives Act, 1906, or since the repeal of that Act, the Governor in Council may vest the control of the same by Order in Council in the Land Board (under the Land Act, 1908) of the district within which the same are situated:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been duly set apart to make provision for landless Natives in the South Island:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor it is expedient to vest the control of the lands described in the Schedule hereto in the Otago Land Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said section twelve of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, as amended by the said section six of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1916, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the control of the lands described in the Schedule hereto (being lands set apart in the South Island of New Zealand to make provision for landless Natives) shall be and the same is hereby vested in the Land Board of the Otago Land District.

SCHEDULE.

GLENOMARU BLOCK.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 354 acres 2 roods 18 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 44, 50 to 54 inclusive, of Block IV, and Sections Nos. 18, 33, 34, and 35 of Block V, Glenomaru Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 42, Block IV, Glenomaru Survey District, across a road, and again by the said Section No. 42; towards the east by Sections Nos. 13, 14, and 15 of Block VII, South Molyneux Survey District, the abutment of a road, by Section No. 9 of Block V, Glenomaru Survey District, and by a public road; towards the south by Section No. 19 of the said Block V; and towards the west generally by Section No. 17 of Block V aforesaid, across and by a road, and by Section No. 2 of the said Block V, by Section No. 43 of Block IV aforesaid, by a public road, and by Section No. 41 of the said Block IV: exclusive of public roads which are within the above-described boundaries. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1099f, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

TAUTUKU BLOCK.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 2,153 acres 3 roods 29 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 11, and 23, Block X, Tautuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 4, Block X, Tautuku Survey District, by a public road, by Section No. 10 of the said Block X, by a public road, across the same, by Section No. 7 of Block X aforesaid, and by a public road; towards the east by public roads, and by Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block IX, of the said district; towards the south by public roads and by Section No. 6 of the said Block X; and towards the west by Section No. 1, Block XIV, of the said district, by Sections Nos. 20, 19, and 16, Block XI, of the said district, and by public roads: exclusive of Section No. 9, Block X, Tautuku Survey District, and public roads which are within the above-described boundaries.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 4,667 acres 3 roods 9 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, Block XIII, and Sections Nos. 2 and 3, Block XIV, Tautuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 1, Block XIII, Tautuku Survey District, by public roads, and by Section No. 4 of the said Block XIII; towards the east by Sections Nos. 24 and 21 of Block XI of the said district, and by Sections Nos. 1 and 4 of Block XIV of the said district; again towards the north and east by a public road; towards the south by a public road; and towards the west generally by public roads and by Section No. 11 of Block XIII aforesaid: exclusive of Sections Nos. 8, 9, and 10, Block XIII, Tautuku Survey District, and public roads which are within the above-described boundaries.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1099A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.