MAY 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1455

Extradition Convention with Estonia.

Police Department,
Wellington, 9th May, 1927.

THE following despatch and enclosure, received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, are published for general information.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.

(P. 24/1312.)

G.H. No. 811/27.

NEW ZEALAND.
Dominions No. 156. Downing Street, 11th March, 1927.

SIR,—With reference to my despatch Dominions No. 366 of the 14th August, 1926, and to my telegram of the 25th February, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of an extract from London Gazette of the 25th February, containing a notification that the Extradition Convention between Great Britain and Estonia, of the 18th November, 1925, has been made applicable to the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, and India, as and from the 23rd February, 1927.

I have, &c.,

J. S. AMERY.

Governor-General His Excellency
General Sir C. Fergusson,
Bart., L.L.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., &c.

[Extract from the London Gazette of 25th February, 1927.]

EXTRADITION CONVENTION OF 18TH NOVEMBER, 1925,
BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ESTONIA.

Foreign Office,
23rd February, 1927.

WHEREAS by the “Estonia (Extradition) Order in Council, 1926,” it was provided that from and after the twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, should apply to the case of Estonia under and in accordance with a Convention concluded on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, between His Majesty and the Estonian Republic :

And whereas it was further provided by the said Order in Council that the operation of the said Acts should be and remain suspended within the self-governing Dominions hereinafter named, that is to say, the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland, and India, until notification should have been made in the London Gazette that the Convention had been made applicable thereto, and that on such notification being made in respect of any such Dominion or India the said Acts should apply in such Dominion or India in the case of the Estonian Republic under and in accordance with the said Convention as from the date of the said notification :

Now, therefore, it is hereby notified that the said Convention has been made applicable to the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland, and India, as and from the present date—viz., the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.

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, 1927, 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, 1927.

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 payments, 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.

Certificates of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 5th May, 1927.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that certificates of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act, 1923, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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