Num. 28. 917

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928.

Additional Regulations under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925,
and the Amendments thereof.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day
of March, 1928.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities
vested in him by the Valuation of Land Act, 1925,
and the Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1927, His
Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make
the following additional regulations for the purposes of the
said Acts, and doth declare that the same shall come into
force on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-eight.

REGULATIONS.

14A. THE notice setting forth an alteration under section 2
of the Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1927, to the
unimproved value of any property shall be in the form
numbered 7 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

14B. The notice setting forth an alteration under section 2
of the Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1927, to the
value of improvements on any property shall be in the form
numbered 8 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

21A. Whenever it is necessary for a local authority to
appoint an assessor to the Assessment Court the appointment
shall be made in the manner hereinafter provided :—

(1) The clerk of the local authority shall give public notice
of the intention of the local authority to appoint an assessor,
and in such notice shall appoint a day, being not less than
fourteen, nor more than twenty-one, days after the first publi-
cation of such notice, when nominations for the position of
assessor will be received by him.

(2) Each nomination shall be in the form numbered 9 in
the Schedule hereto, and shall be signed by at least two
ratepayers of the district, and by the candidate, in token
of his assent to such nomination, and shall be delivered to
the clerk at his office at any time after publication of the
said notice before noon on the day appointed therein.

(3) If no nomination is received within the time fixed by
such notice for receiving nominations the local authority
may proceed to appoint an assessor.

(4) If only one nomination is received within the time
aforesaid the local authority shall appoint the person so
nominated as assessor.

(5) If more nominations than one are received the clerk
of the local authority shall by public notice notify the names
of the persons so nominated, and shall call a public meeting
of ratepayers of the district for the purpose of electing from
among those nominated one person to be appointed as as-
sessor, and in such notice shall appoint the time of such
meeting, being not less than five nor more than ten days
after the date specified for the receiving of nominations, and
also the place of such meeting. The clerk of the local autho-
rity shall preside at such meeting.

(6) Every ratepayer present at the meeting whose name
appears on the local authority’s valuation roll shall be en-
titled to have one vote, and no ratepayer shall have more
than one vote.

(7) In every district in which there are more than five
hundred ratepayers the clerk shall provide a ballot-box, and
before the election the clerk shall unlock the ballot-box and
show that it is empty, and then shall lock it again, and shall
not remove it from its place until the election is concluded.

(8) Every ratepayer who wishes to vote shall apply to
the chairman of the meeting for a voting-paper, who, if
satisfied that he is duly qualified to vote, shall give him a
voting-paper containing the names of all duly nominated
persons, from which the ratepayer shall, without leaving the
room or place of election, strike out any names he pleases,
but so as not to leave more names on the paper than one ;
and, folding the paper so that the contents cannot be seen,
shall return the same to the chairman, or, in the presence
of the chairman, put the same into the ballot-box.

(9) So soon as all the ratepayers who desire to vote have
recorded their votes the chairman shall declare the voting