May 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1219

used for agricultural or pastoral purposes if the total un-improved 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 three thousand 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 all persons in receipt of income from salary, wages, interest, rent, annuity, or other annual payments, where such income in conjunction with income from free-of-tax Government securities, company debentures issued free of tax, and from dividends or other profits derived from shares or other rights of membership in companies exceeds £200 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 during the above year derived dividends from companies, interest from free-of-tax Government securities, or from company debentures issued free of tax, are required to make a return of such dividends or interest 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.

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

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Cancelling the Reservation over a Reserve in the Town of Kaikoura, Marlborough Land District.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of May, 1932.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 cancel the reservation as a reserve for a police-station over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 95, 97, 99, 101, and 103, Town of Kaikoura: Area, 2 acres 1 rood 29·3 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 6/1/52.)

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Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Manurewa Parish, North Auckland Land District.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of May, 1932.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for quarry purposes:

And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for water-supply purposes:

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 reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for quarry purposes to a reserve for water-supply purposes.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Manakau County, situate in Block V, Otahuhu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 7·2 perches, more or less, being portion of Allotment 202, Manurewa Parish, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on Coronation Road being the south-eastern corner of Allotment 207, Manurewa Parish; thence on the north-east by the aforesaid road bearing 149° 58′ distance 276·55 links, on the south generally by other portion of Allotment 202, Manurewa Parish, being portion of the land reserved as a quarry by notice in New Zealand Gazette, 1890, No. 43, page 897, aforesaid, bearing 243° 05′ distance 122·16 links, bearing 251° 32′ distance 102·43 links, bearing 277° 10′ distance 807·0 links, to the eastern boundary of Allotment 200, Manurewa Parish (Recreation Reserve); thence on the west by the said Allotment 200, bearing 347° 18′ distance 30·0 links, to Allotment 207 aforesaid; thence on the north by Allotment 207 aforesaid, bearing 77° 18′ distance 896·93 links to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3747, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (North Auckland plan 26693.)

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

(L. and S. 22/3747.)

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Lake Okataina Scenic Board Regulations.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of May, 1932.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one of section seventeen of the Native Purposes Act, 1931, 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 regulations prescribing the practice and procedure of the Board of Control constituted to control the Lake Okataina Scenic Reserves.

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REGULATIONS.

(1) THESE regulations may be cited as the “Lake Okataina Scenic Board Regulations, 1932.”

(2) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Board” means the Lake Okataina Scenic Board constituted pursuant to the provisions of section 17 (1) of the Native Purposes Act, 1931, by the Warrant dated the eighth day of April, 1932, and gazetted on the fourteenth day of that month.

“Reserves” means the areas declared to have been ceded to the Crown by the Proclamation dated the 30th day of May, 1931, and gazetted on the 4th day of June following.

“Minister” means the Minister of the Crown for the time being charged with the administration of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.

(3) The first meeting of the Board shall be held at such time and place as may be fixed by the Minister. Thereafter the Board shall meet monthly for the transaction of business at such time and place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

(4) The Board shall at its first meeting elect one of its members to be Chairman, who shall have an original as well as a casting vote, and who shall hold office until the election of his successor.

(5) Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.