Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th May, 1920.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Newcastle Road District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Finance.

NEWCASTLE ROAD BOARD.

Proposed Loan of £22,000 for metalling Roads.

I HEREBY give notice that the poll taken on 16th April, 1920, resulted as follows : For the proposal, 146 votes ; against the proposal, 195 votes.

I declare the said proposal to be rejected.

W. D. LAXON,
Chairman, Newcastle Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th May, 1920.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Napier Harbour District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Finance.

NAPIER HARBOUR BOARD.

In the matter of the Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act, 1914 (hereinafter called "the 1914 Act"), as modified by the Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Vesting Act, 1917, and as amended by section 12 of the last-named Act; and in the matter of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

We, Albert Edward Jull and John Patrick Kenny, Chairman and Returning Officer respectively for the Napier Harbour Board, hereby give notice that on the 16th day of April, 1920, a poll of the ratepayers of the Napier Harbour Rating District was duly held and taken on the proposal of the said Board to raise a special loan of £250,000 for the purposes enumerated in the Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act, 1914, as modified by the Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Vesting Act, 1917, and as amended by section 12 of the last-named Act, and that at such poll the number of votes recorded was as follows :

For the proposal ... ... ... 3,013
Against the proposal ... ... ... 636
Majority for the proposal ... ... 2,377
Informal ... ... ... ... ... 28

Wherefore we declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 30th day of April, 1920.

A. E. JULL, Chairman.
JNO. P. KENNY, Returning Officer.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 10th May, 1920.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of Dargaville, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF DARGAVILLE.

Results of Polls on Proposals to raise Loans.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Dargaville taken on the 18th day of June, 1919, on the proposal of the Dargaville Borough Council to borrow the sum of £1,000 (one thousand pounds) to extend the gas-main to Duck Creek, the votes were as follows : For the proposal, 53 ; against the proposal, 26.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Dargaville taken on the 18th day of June, 1919, on the proposal of the Dargaville Borough Council to borrow the sum of £1,300 (one thousand three hundred pounds) to extend the water-main to Duck Creek, the votes were as follows : For the proposal, 51 ; against the proposal, 27 ; informal vote, 1.

I therefore declare that the proposals were carried.

Dated this 19th day of June, 1919.

R. E. HORNBLOW, Mayor.

Empire Day to be observed as a Holiday on King's Birthday.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th May, 1920.

EMPIRE Day will be celebrated on Thursday, the 3rd June, 1920, the anniversary of the birthday of His Majesty the King, and that day will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Post Officers appointed to take Declarations of Telegraph Officers.

Post and Telegraph Department, General Post Office, Wellington, 30th April, 1920.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under paragraph (d) of section 8 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 21 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1919, do hereby authorize the following Post officers to take declarations of Telegraph officers for the purposes of the said section 21 :

BARRETT, JOHN FRANCIS.
CHURCH, GEORGE FREDERICK.
DELANY, VINCENT JOSEPH.
MCFARLANE, BRUCE.
NEWMAN, CHARLES ALBERT.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Postmaster-General.

Notice to make Returns of Income under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1916.

Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington, 13th May, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the above Act and the regulations made thereunder, every person and company having derived income within the meaning of the said Act during the year ending 31st March, 1920, from any source or by any means which is made the subject of taxation under the said Act, is hereby required to make and furnish to me, in the prescribed form, returns of such income on or before the 1st day of June, 1920.

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.

D. G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Taxes.

NOTE.—Forms of return may be obtained at any postal money-order office ; they will not be sent to taxpayers from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes unless written application is made for them.

Returns of income are required to be furnished by all persons in business (including farmers). They are also required from all persons in receipt of income from salary, wages, interest, rent, annuity or other annual payment, where such income exceeds £250 per annum. The returns are required annually from such persons notwithstanding that by reason of the special exemptions allowable by law they may not be liable to pay tax.

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

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Registrar dissolving a Society.

I ROBERT EDWARD HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Hikurangi Brass Band (Incorporated) Society is no longer carrying on its operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of May, 1920.

R. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.