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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

Fixing the Amount of Special Orchard-tax payable in the Waimea Commercial Fruitgrowing District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3158.)

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I, Charles Edward de la Barca Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, hereby order and direct that, in addition to the general orchard-tax payable under section 3 of the said Act, the occupier of every orchard within the Waimea Commercial Fruitgrowing District shall in each year be liable to pay a special orchard-tax calculated at the rate of three shillings (3s.) for every acre or part of an acre comprised in his orchard, and planted with apple-trees, pear-trees, or quince-trees.

Notice No. Ag. 3005 of the 14th December, 1931, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 17th December, 1931, at page 3507, is hereby cancelled.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of January, 1934.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Revoking the Notice prescribing the Amount of Special Orchard-tax payable in the Te Kauwhata Commercial Fruitgrowing District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3159.)

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I, Charles Edward de la Barca Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, do hereby revoke the notice prescribing the amount of special orchard-tax payable by the occupier of every orchard within the Te Kauwhata Commercial Fruitgrowing District, given under the hand of the Minister of Agriculture on the 14th day of February, 1933, and published in the Gazette of the 16th day of the same month, at page 287, and do hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect on the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of January, 1934.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department,
Wellington, 12th January, 1934.

IT is hereby notified that unclaimed property in the hands of the police at the various police-stations will, if not claimed before Saturday, the 17th February, 1934, be sold thereafter by public auction.

Particulars as to the time and place of sale may be obtained from the Superintendent or Inspector of Police in charge of the district.

W. G. WOHLMANN, Commissioner of Police.

Notice to Mariners No. 5 of 1934.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th January, 1934.

ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS.

NEW copies of the following charts, showing large corrections, have been published by the Hydrographer, and may be purchased at Mercantile Marine Offices in the Dominion:—

No. 2591 : River Waiho to Cape Foulwind. Dated 8/9/33. New Soundings on plan of Greymouth Harbour.

No. 2540 : Approaches to Awarua or Bluff Harbour. Dated 15/8/33. New soundings in Bluff Harbour and New River.

No. 3484 : Awarua or Bluff Harbour. Dated 15/9/33. New inner soundings from Davey Bank to Middle Bank.

Existing copies are thereby cancelled.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Acting Secretary.

(M. 19/5/40.)

Minister’s Decisions under Sales Tax Act, 1932–33.

Customs Department, Wellington, 13th January, 1934.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Minister of Customs has decided to interpret the Sales Tax Act, 1932–33 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), as under:—

It should be understood that the decisions contained herein may be revised from time to time in the light of further information which may be obtained by the Minister.

[NOTE.—The decisions respecting knitting-pins and toilet-paper appearing in Minister’s decisions Nos. 16 (gazetted on 6th July, 1933) and 22 (gazetted on 14th September, 1933), respectively, are cancelled. See Order in Council respecting these goods gazetted on 30th November, 1933.]

E. D. GOOD, for Comptroller of Customs.