Mar. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 803

Letters of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 21st March, 1923.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that letters of naturalization, or endorsement of letters of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the Aliens Act, 1908, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Rodney County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st March, 1923.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Rodney County Council on the 21st day of November, 1922.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of January, 1923.

Dated this 21st day of March, 1923.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Election of Member of Auckland Land Board.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th March, 1923.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations thereunder, I, John George Bendely, as Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Auckland Land Board, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 13th day of March, 1923, to be as follows:—

Andrews, Ernest Frank .. .. .. 187
Hayward, William George .. .. 343
Scott, William Henry .. .. .. 14
Young, John Thomas .. .. .. 78

Valid votes .. .. .. .. 622
Informal votes .. .. .. .. 35

And I do hereby declare that WILLIAM GEORGE HAYWARD, having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Auckland Land Board as from the 3rd day of April, 1923.

J. G. BENDELY, Returning Officer.

Destruction of Deer, Southland.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer—may be taken or killed within the Southland Acclimatization District, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the secretary of the Southland Acclimatization Society at Invercargill, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to the 31st December, 1923.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said secretary, within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sex of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations is liable to a fine of £20.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1923.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

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, 1923.

If the total unimproved value of the land of any person or company, as assessed under the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, 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, 1923.

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.

“Owner of land” includes a lessee of land owned by Natives.

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