Mar. 17] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 733

Approval of Testing Officers Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Transport Department .. .. Charles Henry Nechlen.
" .. .. Ronald Leslie Pelvin.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice of Intention to Take Land

THE Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 24 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, hereby gives notice of his intention to take the land described in the Schedule hereto under Part II of the said Act, and specifies the 9th day of June, 1949, as the date on which possession of the land is required, and the 21st day of April, 1949, as the date on or before which objections may be made under section 25 of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing sixty-three (63) acres and thirty-five (35) perches, more or less, being Lot 16 on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Regsitrar, at Christchurch, as number 504, and being Part Rural Section 23211, situated in Block IX of the Corwar Survey District, and being part of the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 321, folio 300, Canterbury Registry.

As witness my hand, this 10th day of March, 1949.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 36/1788 ; D.O. 27/15/9.)

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Cancellation of Registration

Department of Labour and Employment,
Wellington, 8th March, 1949.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the New Zealand Motor-body Builders’ Industrial Association of Employers, registered number 1041, situated at Wellington, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

C. P. SMITH, Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Declaring Land to be Subject to Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori 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 Oaonui Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Aotea Maori Land Court District, containing 203 acres, more or less, called or known as Ngatitara 18, situate in Block V, Opunake Survey District, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 109, folio 145 (Taranaki Registry).

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1949.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 1/5/12.)

Declaring Land to be Subject to Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori 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 Waikato Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land Court District, containing 33 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less, called or known as Lot 2, D.P. 13097, Part Allotment 366A, Parish of Waipipi, and situate in Block XII, Awhitu Survey District.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1949.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 1/2/44.)

Declaring Land to be Subject to Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori 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 Hokianga Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Tokerau Maori Land Court District, containing 76 acres 2 roods, more or less, called or known as Motukaraka West A 3A, and situate in Block IX, Mangamuka Survey District.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1949.

For and on behalf of Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 1/1/2.)

Releasing Land from the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 9th day of June, 1930, and published in Gazette No. 45 of the 19th day of the same month, at page 1983, whereby the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929 (now Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936), were applied to, inter alia, the said land, and such land is hereby excluded from the Kaipara Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Tokerau Maori Land Court District, containing 50 acres, more or less, called or known as Section 5, Block XIV, Tokatoka Survey District.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1949.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 1/1/3.)

Releasing Land from the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 18th day of December, 1930, and published in Gazette No. 90 of the 23rd day of December, 1930, at page 3908, whereby the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929 (now Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act, 1936), were applied to, inter alia, the said land, and such land is hereby excluded from the Whakatohea Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Waiariki Maori Land Court District, containing 38 acres 2 roods 22 perches, more or less, called or known as Opape 2A 2B.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1949.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

T. T. ROPIHA,
Under-Secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 1/3/17.)

Notice to Make Returns of Land Under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923

EVERY person and company, whether a taxpayer or not, being the owner of land in New Zealand within the meaning of the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923, and regulations thereunder, is hereby required to furnish on or before the 11th April, 1949, in the prescribed form, a return of such land as at 12 noon on 31st March, 1949, where the total unimproved value, as assessed under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925, exceeds £500.

Returns are to be addressed as follows:—

Companies: To the Superintendent of the Branch office of the Land and Income Tax Department where the company’s records are filed.

Individuals, Partnerships, Syndicates, and Trusts: To the Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington C. 3.

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

Return forms are available at any post-office or from any office of the Land and Income Tax Department.

F. G. OBORN,
Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington.