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5. Proof of purchase of the motor-spirits by the consumer must be attached to the application ; the proof, where possible, to be in the form of the receipted invoice.

The Motor-spirits Taxation Act, 1927.

8. (1) In respect of motor-spirits purchased by the consumer after the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and used for any purpose other than as fuel for a motor-vehicle in respect of which an annual license fee is payable under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, the person using such spirits shall, on application in the prescribed form to the Registrar of Motor-vehicles, be entitled to a refund of an amount computed at the rate of fourpence for every gallon of motor-spirits so used.

(2) In addition to the refunds authorized by the last preceding subsection, a refund of duty shall be allowed in respect of all motor-spirits purchased by the consumer before the said first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and used otherwise than as fuel for a motor-vehicle as aforesaid if the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the Registrar of Motor-vehicles that the duty imposed by this Act or by the resolutions confirmed by this Act has been paid in respect of such motor-spirits.

(3) (Repealed.)

(4) Every such application shall be supported by such declarations or other documentary evidence as the Registrar of Motor-vehicles may require.

(5) Every person commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty pounds or to imprisonment for three months, who makes any claim under this section that is false in any material particular.

The Motor-spirits Taxation Amendment Act, 1928.

3. (1) Applications for refunds under section eight of the principal Act shall be made in accordance with this section in respect of the quarterly periods ending respectively on the last day of March, June, September, and December in any year. Application for any such refund shall be made in the month following the close of the quarterly period in respect of which it is made, and shall relate to all the motor-spirits used by the applicant during that period in respect of which a refund is lawfully payable :

Provided that the Registrar of Motor-vehicles may in any special case accept and deal with an application for a refund in respect of motor-spirits used within any quarterly period, notwithstanding that such application may be made before the close of the period.

(2) No refund shall be allowed in respect of any quarterly period unless application therefor is made in accordance with the last preceding subsection.

(3) This section is in substitution for subsection three of section eight of the principal Act, and that subsection is hereby accordingly repealed; but notwithstanding such repeal the provisions of the said subsection three shall apply with respect to applications for refunds in respect of motor-spirits used prior to the coming into force of this section.

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

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SPECIAL DECLARATIONS.

Agricultural Tractors.

I hereby certify that my tractor is used solely for agricultural purposes, and that it is not used on any road or street except when proceeding to or from a farm.

Signed :

Local Authorities.

I hereby certify that the Motor-spirits on which a refund of duty is claimed were consumed in vehicles owned and used by the local authority exclusively for the maintenance and construction of roads and streets and in respect of which no annual license fee is payable under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924.

Signed :

Town Clerk.

County Clerk.

County Engineer.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 66/86.)

The Southern Side generally of Portion of Laura Avenue, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1929.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Wellington City Council on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, viz. :—

“The Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Wellington, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the southern side generally of that portion of Laura Avenue fronting Lot 18, D.P. 1004, being part Section 11, Ohiro Registration District, Block X, Port Nicholson Survey District ” ;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the southern side generally of the portion of Laura Avenue (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE.

THE southern side generally of all that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, City of Wellington, known as Laura Avenue, fronting Lot 18, D.P. 1004, being part Section 11, Ohiro Registration District, Block X, Port Nicholson Survey District. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 74623, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 51/407.)

The Western Side of Portion of Morley Street, and the Northern Side of Portion of Barrett Street, in the Borough of New Plymouth, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1929.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the New Plymouth Borough Council on the fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, viz. :—

“That the New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the streets hereinafter mentioned, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen, subsection one, of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply—

(a) To that portion of the western side of Morley Street to which Section 521, New Plymouth, has frontage ;

nor

(b) To that portion of the northern side of Barrett Street to which Sections 520 and 521 have frontages ” ;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the western side of the portion of Morley Street (described in the Schedule hereto), or the northern side of portion of Barrett Street