MAY 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1293

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 10th May, 1926.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amounts, forwarded by persons unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government: £5 forwarded to the Railway Department, Wellington; 6d. forwarded to the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin; 10s. forwarded to the Pensions Department, Wellington.

R. E. HAYES,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 14.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Joseph Hewson.

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.

Mr. Claude C. Hoskin.
Mr. Charles Ernest Howard Naylor.
Mr. John Thomas.

Church of Christ.

Mr. Harold Dewer Priestly.

Latter Rain.

M. Lawrence P. Bryan.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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

I, WILLIAM GREER FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Taumarunui District Horticultural and Industrial Society (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland this 11th day of May, 1926.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Te Makarini Scholarships tenable at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th May, 1926.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition in the year 1926. One of these scholarships, to be called the Senior Makarini Scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. The other two scholarships, to to be called the Junior Makarini Scholarships, are open to Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. One of the junior scholarships is reserved for competition amongst candidates from Native village schools only, the other is open to Maori boys attending any school in the Dominion. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions set forth in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the appendix to the Regulations relating to Native Schools, except that for the Junior Scholarship the age-limit is now fourteen years, and that for the senior examination the work required is that of Standard VI instead of Standard V. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 6th and 7th of December, 1926.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 30th September, 1926.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Director of Education, Wellington.

JOHN PORTEOUS,
Senior Inspector of Native Schools.

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Notice to make Returns of Income under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the above Act and the Regulations made thereunder, every person and company, whether a taxpayer or not, having derived income within the meaning of the said Act during the year ending 31st March, 1926, 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, 1926.

Returns of income are required to be furnished by all companies and persons in business, whether for the whole or part of the income year. They are also required from all persons in receipt of income from salary, wages, interest, rents, 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.

In cases where the Commissioner has agreed to accept returns for twelve months ending at a date subsequent to the 31st March, such returns shall be made within two months of such subsequent date.

Further, notice is hereby given that all persons who received dividends from companies during the above year are required to make a return of such dividends in the space provided on page 1 of the prescribed form referred to in the foregoing.

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.

A. E. FOWLER,
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.

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

Conversion of German Government Loans.

Wellington, 7th May, 1926.

INFORMATION has been received from the German Consul for New Zealand that under a German statute of the 16th July, 1925, provision is made for the conversion of German Government loans into a Loan Liquidation Debt on the basis of R.M. 25 (i.e., gold marks) for each M. 1,000 of the old loans.

At first only those persons who are able to prove their uninterrupted ownership from before the 1st July, 1920, will be permitted to exchange their certificates. Such persons will receive bonds of the loan-liquidation debt, and also drawing certificates. Of these drawing certificates a certain number will be drawn each year extending over a period of thirty years from 1926, and the winners will receive five times the face value of their bonds in cash, plus interest at the rate of 4½ per centum per annum on the face value, commencing from this year.

The period during which applications will be considered commenced on the 1st April, 1926, and it will close on 30th June next. All applications for the exchange of loans from holders living in New Zealand should be addressed immediately to the German Consul for New Zealand, P.O. Box 1300, Wellington.

German loan certificates which were acquired by present holders after the 1st July, 1920, are expected to be exchanged later this year.

J. W. MACDONALD,
Public Trustee, as Controller, New Zealand Clearing Office.

Tenders for Supply of Uniforms.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st May, 1926.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Fryatt Street, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Monday, the 31st May, 1926, for the supply and delivery of cloth uniforms during the period 1st July, 1926, to 30th June, 1928.

Forms and conditions of tender may be obtained at the offices of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, the Stores Manager, Post and Telegraph Department, Auckland, and the District Telegraph Engineers, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch and Dunedin.

A. MARKMAN, Secretary.