May 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1471

License under Land Transfer Act cancelled.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th May, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that, with the approval of His Excellency the Governor-General, in terms of subsection (3) of section 177 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, I have cancelled the license held by

Ernest de Courcy Drury

to practise as a surveyor under the said Act from the date of gazetting of this notice.

H. E. WALSH, Surveyor-General.

(L. and S. 17/163.)

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1931.

THE Loyal Star of the North Lodge, No. 9592, situated at Oamaru, is registered as a branch of The Otago District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows’ Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 4th day of May, 1931.

R. WHITHEFORD,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

The Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, Section 28.

I, WALTER HAROLD FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Wadestown Club (Incorporated) has now been wound up, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1931.

W. H. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

The Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, Section 28.

I, WALTER HAROLD FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Wellington Orchestral Society (Incorporated) has now been wound up, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1931.

W. H. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Companies.

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

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Beach Haven Progressive and Social League (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, 1931.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Rawene on the 10th June, 1931.

Registrar’s Office,
Auckland, 5th May, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Rawene on the 10th June, 1931, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Tokerau, 1931-5.] E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 26. Applicant: Under-Secretary, Public Works Department. Name of land: Waihou A 6b 2, A 6b 3, A 7a. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for the purposes of a school.

No. 27. Applicant: Under-Secretary, Public Works Department. Name of land: Waima North A 19b, A 18b, A 22, A 16a, A 12. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for Horeke–Taheke Road.

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

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, 1931, 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 1st day of June, 1931.

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.

E. J. R. CUMMING,
Commissioner of Taxes.

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

School Colours.

Education Department,
Wellington, 11th May, 1931.

THE following school colours have been registered in accordance with the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th August, 1915.

GREYMOUTH TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Colours: Blue, gold, and red.

Monogram: Letters “G.T.H.S.” in gold on a blue ground.

T. B. STRONG, Registration Officer.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Westland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th May, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Westland Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TENURE: Regs. 327. Lease 327. Section 647, Block VIII. Mawheranui Survey District. Lessee: H. Smith. Reason for forfeiture: At request.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/950/7.)