Mar. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 459

Notice of Intention to take Additional Land for a Technical School in the City of Dunedin.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the additional land described in the Schedule hereto for a technical school: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Dunedin and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 22·4 perches.
Being Lot 4 and part Lot 5, D.P. 42, being parts Sections 27 and 28, Block XIII, Town of Dunedin.

Situated in the City of Dunedin. (S.O. 9147.)

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 106738, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1940.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 31/517/1.)

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary Vacancy on the New Plymouth Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th March, 1940.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules made thereunder, the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, doth hereby appoint Monday, the 8th day of April, 1940, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the New Plymouth Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. A. S. Clark.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/26.)

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendments, fixing the Closing-hours of Tobacconists’ Shops within the Combined District of Auckland.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops within the combined District of Auckland, comprising the City of Auckland, the boroughs of Birkenhead, Devonport, Ellerslie, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, New Lynn, Newmarket, Northcote, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, Otahuhu, and Takapuna, and the town districts of Glen Eden, Henderson, and Papatoetoe, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I, Patrick Charles Webb, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 8th day of April, 1940, all tobacconists’ shops within the said combined district shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Subject to closing not later than 1 p.m. on the day observed as the statutory closing-day, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8 p.m., on Fridays at 11 p.m., and on Saturdays at 11 p.m., with the following exceptions—(1) On the working-days (other than those observed as the statutory closing-days) in the period from 15th December to 10th January of the following year, both days inclusive, on the special days mentioned in section 26 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and on the working-day immediately preceding any of such special days, there shall be no fixed closing-hour. (2) Should the occupier of any shop affected by this requisition observe Friday or Saturday as the statutory closing-day, then the closing-hour on Thursday for such shop shall be 11 p.m.:

And whereas the said requisition is signed by not less than two-thirds of the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops within the said combined district, notice is hereby given that, pursuant to section 25 of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, all other shops within the said combined district in which smoking requisites are sold shall be closed at the same hours as are set out herein for tobacconists’ shops.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1940.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

Poukawa Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th March, 1940.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers within the Poukawa Drainage Rating Area are hereby notified that ten per centum additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1940, unpaid on the 5th April, 1940.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office on presentation of the original demand, or to the Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, Private Bag, Napier.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/86/1.)

Rangitaiki Drainage District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th March, 1940.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments, the ratepayers within the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that ten per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1940; unpaid on 9th April, 1940.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, Private Bag, Auckland, C. I.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/11/108.)

Including Additional Land in the Hauraki Development Scheme.

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby declares the land described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part I of the said Act and to be included in the Hauraki Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of Native-owned land situate in the Waikato-Maniapoto Native Land Court District, containing 106 acres 0 roods 14 perches, more or less, being Sections 26 and 30, Block VIII, Tairua Survey District, saving and excepting all minerals within the meaning of the Land Act, 1924, on or under the said land, and reserving always to His Majesty the King and to all persons lawfully entitled to work the said minerals, a right of ingress, egress, and regress over the said land, and being the whole of the land in Provisional Register, Vol. 184, folio 389 (Auckland), in the name of John Savage, of Opoutere, Farmer, and subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924, and section 315 of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of March, 1940.

O. N. CAMPBELL,
W. STEWART,
Members of the Board of Native Affairs.

(N.D. 1/2/39.)

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, 1940.

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, Wellington, C. 3, on or before the 11th day of April, 1940.

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.