SEPT. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2779

Hawke’s Bay County Council.—Declaration of Poll on Proposal that the System of Rating in the Hawke’s Bay County be on the Unimproved Value.

PURSUANT to section 42 of the Rating Act, 1925, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Hawke’s Bay County taken on Wednesday, the 27th day of August, 1941, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said county be on the unimproved value—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was . . 1776
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1163
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 3rd day of September, 1941.

R. HARDING,
Chairman, Hawke’s Bay County Council.

The Land and Income Tax (Annual) Act, 1941.

LAND-TAX PAYABLE.

IN accordance with Order in Council dated 10th September, 1941, issued under the Land and Income Tax (Annual) Act, 1941, I hereby notify that the land-tax leviable under that Act is payable at my office in one sum on Tuesday, 30th September, 1941, and that additional tax accrues if not paid by 21st October, 1941. Liability is not suspended by any objection, and tax must be paid by the prescribed date to avoid additional percentage; any overpayment will be refunded.

Demands will be issued on or about 23rd September, 1941, and must be presented with all payments. Taxpayers who do not receive an expected demand should notify me.

J. M. PARK, Commissioner of Taxes.

Officiating Ministers for 1941.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1941.

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:—

Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Duncan Ian Alister McDonald.

Seventh-day Adventists.
Paster Maurice Charles Bland.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elder Charles E. Billman.

K. D. C. MORRISON, Deputy Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Settlement Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 9th September, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 13th October, 1941.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 13th October, 1941, at 10 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce documentary evidence of their financial position and farming experience.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and deposit in reduction of weighting for improvements.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.
Bay of Islands County.—Te Pua and Remuera Settlements.

Sections 1s, 2s, and 10s to 13s, Te Pua Settlement, and Sections 43s and 44s, Remuera Settlement: Area, 356 acres 1 rood 30·4 perches. Capital value, £375; half-yearly rent, £9 7s. 6d.

Weighted with £510 for improvements, comprising dwelling of four rooms, washhouse, cow-shed, 55 chains road-fence, 105 chains boundary-fence, 195 chains internal fencing, 270 acres felling and grassing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £30, the balance may be repaid over a period of twenty years by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest amounting to £18 16s. 10d. and one final instalment of £19 1s. 3d.

Situated on a metalled road from Ohaeawai, and has also access (half a mile unformed) to the Kaikohe—Ohaeawai Main Road, being thus two miles and a quarter from Kaikohe. About 15 acres swamp, 110 acres undulating, balance hilly with a fair amount of surface stone. Country is high and exposed, and has partly reverted to fern and gorse. Property is divided into ten paddocks, and watered by springs and stream.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

L. J. POFF,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/22229; D.O. R.L. 2042.)

Land in North Auckland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 8th September, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the North Auckland Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

(L. and S. 22/1450/1456.)

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister of Lands.

Land in the Taranaki Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 8th September, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

(L. and S. 26/11822.)

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