APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 959

within the meaning of the said Act, during the year ending 31st March, 19 , from any source or by any means which is made the subject of taxation under the said Act, or any amendment thereof, is hereby required to make and furnish to me, in the prescribed form, returns of such income on or before the day of , 19 .

Returns of income are required to be furnished by all companies which, and persons who, whether for the whole or part of the income year, were in business, or in receipt of profits or gains derived from the use or occupation of lands used for agricultural or pastoral purposes, if the total unimproved value of all estates or interests in such lands used or occupied by such person or company at any one time during the income year was not less than seven thousand five hundred pounds ; or in receipt of profits or gains derived from the extraction, removal, or sale of minerals, timber, or flax ; or in receipt of profits or gains derived from the use or occupation of any Crown land or other land administered by a Land Board and held as a small-grazing run or for pastoral purposes, or derived from the use or occupation of any other lands reserved, set apart, or granted by the Crown as endowments, and occupied for pastoral purposes, irrespective of whether a profit or a loss was made ; also by persons in receipt of income from salary, wages, interest, rent, annuity or other annual payments, where such income exceeds £250 per annum.

Returns are required annually from such companies and 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 after 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 in Part A of the prescribed form hereinbefore referred to.

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.

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Commissioner of Taxes.

[Note.—Forms of return may be obtained at any Post-office.]

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorizing Mount Wellington Road Board to fix Water Charges according to Quantity used.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in the Gazette on the sixteenth day of the same month, at page 409, it was ordered and declared that the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-seven, and one hundred and forty-eight of the Road Boards Act, 1908, with respect to waterworks and fire-prevention, should apply to the Mount Wellington Road Board :

And whereas it is expedient that the said Mount Wellington Road Board should be authorized to fix water charges according to the quantity used :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities 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 consent to the said Mount Wellington Road Board making and levying water rates and charges in respect both of the ordinary as well as of any extraordinary supply, according to the quantity of water consumed by any person receiving the same as measured by meter, at such rates or charges as may from time to time be fixed by any by-law of the Board in that behalf, or as may be agreed on with any such person.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(I.A. 19/236/24.)

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in City of Christchurch, Canterbury Land District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for ferry purposes :

And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a waterworks reserve :

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for ferry purposes to a waterworks reserve.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Reserve No. 47, situated in the City of Christchurch, and bounded as follows : Towards the north by Ferry Road, 234·4 links ; towards the east by a public road, 104·8 links ; and again towards the south and west by Rural Section No. 216A, 265·7 links and 100 links respectively. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/9/55, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 6/9/55.)

Consenting to Stopping Portions of Road in Block XV, Mount Robinson Survey District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities 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 consent to the Horowhenua County Council stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be stopped :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 0 29·0
0 0 2·2 } Section 2D 4A, Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 3
0 0 4·4 Block.
0 0 36·7
0 0 0·002 Section 2D 4B, Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 3 Block.
0 0 32·0 Section 2D 4C, Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 3 Block.
0 0 0·02
0 1 9·3 } Section 1B 1, Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 3
0 0 0·002 Block.

(S.O. 2625.)