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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Donald Malcolm,
to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Eltham and Opunake
for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928; Clerk
of the Licensing Committee for the District of Egmont for
the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908; Registrar of
Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Egmont for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927,
and its amendments; and Returning Officer for the Egmont
Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act,
1908, and its amendments; as from the 4th day of March,
1938.

Wilfred Augustine Dowd,
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Auckland Central for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927,
and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the
Auckland Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing
Act, 1908, and its amendments, as from the 28th day of
February, 1938.

Edward Leslie Adams,*
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Auckland
Suburbs for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its
amendments, and Returning Officer for the Auckland Suburbs
Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act,
1908, and its amendments, as from the 25th day of February,
1938.

• Amending entry in Gazette No. 16 of 10/3/38, page 435.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices
by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1938.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post
and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the said
Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May,
1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their
names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving offi-
cers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph
sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such
certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as
are required or authorized to be signed or given under the
said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

William Stroudly Little, Supervisor, Telegraph Branch,
New Plymouth.

David Robertson McCowatt, Chief Postmaster, Thames.

F. JONES, Minister of Telegraphs.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1938.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act,
1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been
pleased to license

Charles Edward Phillips, Esquire,

of Auckland, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly
Societies Act, 1909.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister in Charge.

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, 1938.

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. I, on or before the 8th day of April, 1938.

J. M. PARK, 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.

Declarations of Desire to Retain, while in New Zealand, the
Rights of a British Subject.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th March, 1938.

IT is hereby notified for public information that declarations
of desire to retain, while in New Zealand, the rights of
a British subject in accordance with the provisions of sec-
tion 3 of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in
New Zealand) Amendment Act, 1934–35, have been made
by the persons named hereunder.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Declarations of Desire to acquire British Nationality.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th March, 1938.

IT is hereby notified for public information that declarations
of desire to acquire British nationality in accordance with
the provisions of subsection (5) of the section relating to
the national status of married women set out in the Schedule
to the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New
Zealand) Amendment Act, 1934–35, have been made by the
persons named hereunder.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

SCHEDULE.