Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 617

• These local bodies have been approved for the purpose of issuing Warrants of Fitness for their own vehicles.
  † These persons or firms have been approved for the purpose of issuing Warrants of Fitness for motor-cycles.

(TT. 19/10/6.)

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

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the above Act and the regulations made thereunder, every person and company within the meaning of the said Act, whether a taxpayer or not, being owner of land in New Zealand, is hereby required to make and furnish to me, in the prescribed form, returns of such land as at 12 o’clock noon on the 31st day of March, 1937.

If the total unimproved value of the land of any person or company, as assessed under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925, does not exceed £500, a return of land need not be furnished.

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, C. 1, on or before the 9th day of April, 1937.

C. E. DOWLAND,
Commissioner of Taxes.

NOTE.—Forms of return may be obtained at any post-office.

SPECIAL NOTE.—Any person failing to furnish a return at the prescribed time is liable to a penalty up to £100.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 11th March, 1937.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Hauraki Plains County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

M. J. SAVAGE, Acting Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Hauraki Plains East Water-supply District Special-rating Area, taken on the 4th day of March, 1937, on a proposal to borrow the sum of £60,000 for construction of a water-supply in the said special area—

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 305
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 37

I therefore declare the proposal to have been carried.

Dated at Ngatea, this 5th day of March, 1937.

C. W. PARFITT, Chairman.

Special Order made by Makara County Council declaring Sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, not to apply to that Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th March, 1937.

HE following special order made by the Makara County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931.

P. C. WEBB,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1937/126/8.)

SPECIAL ORDER.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, the Council of the County of Makara resolves by way of Special Order as follows :—

“That sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, shall not apply to the Council of the County of Makara.”

The above resolution was read and confirmed this 12th day of March, 1937.

H. PICKFORD, County Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.

H. PICKFORD, County Clerk.

Officiating Ministers for 1937.—Notice No. 9.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1937.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Ths Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Alexander Miller.

The Ratana Established Church of New Zealand.

Pera Hohepa.
Robert Karena.
Paki Kereopa.
Raharaha Nehemia.
Hori Reupena.

Evangelical Mission.

Mr. Frank Arthur Fitzsimons.
Mr. Ernest Edward Pennington.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 11th March, 1937.

THE Loyal Taneatua Lodge, No. 9707, with registered office at Taneatua, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (New Zealand) Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 11th day of March, 1937.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.