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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 23

Approval of Brake-testing Instruments

PURSUANT to subclause (5) of regulation 42 of the Traffic Regulations 1956*, the Secretary for Transport hereby approves for the purposes of the said regulation, the brake-testing instruments of the make and type described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

HPA Roller Brake Testers Model No. 2302 and 2303 manufactured by H. P. Anderson Engineering Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of March 1973.

F. McWHA, for Secretary for Transport.

*S.R. 1956/217 (Reprinted with amendments No. 1 to 16: S.R. 1968/32)
Amendment No. 17: S.R. 1969/54
Amendment No. 18: S.R. 1969/115
Amendment No. 19: S.R. 1970/157
Amendment No. 20: S.R. 1970/272
Amendment No. 21: S.R. 1971/117
Amendment No. 22: S.R. 1972/83
Amendment No. 23: S.R. 1972/252

Notice to Make Returns of Land Under the Land and Income Tax Act 1954

PURSUANT to the Land and Income Tax Act 1954, the Commissioner of Inland Revenue hereby gives notice as follows:

1. A return of land held as at noon 31 March 1973 is required from 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 1954, if the total unimproved value as at noon on 31 March 1970 exceeded $60,000 and the land is not of the classes specified in paragraph 3 below.

2. Land tax is dealt with by the Masterton office of the department and returns may be sent there or to any district office of the Inland Revenue Department, not later than 7 May 1973.

3. Returns of land are not required for classes of land used solely or principally for the purposes of a business of—
   (1) Animal husbandry (including poultry-keeping, bee-keeping, and the breeding of horses); or
   (2) Growing fruit, vegetables, or other crop producing plants; or
   (3) Horticulture; or
   (4) Viticulture.

Provided that the exemption in this paragraph shall not extend to land used for the purposes of a racecourse within the meaning of the Racing Act 1971 or to land used solely or principally for the purposes of forestry or silviculture.

4. The Valuation of Land Amendment Act (No. 2) 1970 amended the basis for valuation of land. The Valuation Department is progressively revaluing land on a “land value” basis instead of “unimproved value”.

Under section 48, Land and Income Tax Act 1954, the unimproved values prevailing as at 31 March 1970 are to be used for land tax for the year ended 31 March 1973.

5. Return forms are available at all district offices of the Inland Revenue Department.

6. Any person or company failing to furnish a return within the prescribed time is liable to a fine not exceeding $200 or not less than $4.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of March 1973.

D. A. STEVENS, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 340—Inquiry Concerning Protection for the Proposed New Zealand Production of Soya Bean Oil

1. The Minister of Customs has asked the Board to undertake an inquiry and report on what form of protection, if any, it considers necessary to protect the proposed New Zealand production of soya bean oil in relation to the importation of soya bean oil classified in Tariff item 15.07.001.

2. For the purpose of taking evidence the Board will combine the soya bean oil of the present reference with the other animal and vegetable oils under reference to it and which have been scheduled for a public hearing commencing at 2 p.m., Monday, 2 July 1973. (Refer Schedule E, Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 323, page 2763, New Zealand Gazette, dated 7 December 1972.) Accordingly, those parties intending to make representations to the Board on the question of protection affecting soya bean oil of Tariff item 15.07.001 should prepare and lodge submissions in terms of notice No. 323.

3. In order to facilitate proceedings at the public hearing commencing on Monday, 2 July 1973, the Board will hear evidence in two parts. Part I will be restricted to evidence relating to soya bean oil of Tariff items 15.07.001 and 15.07.009 and Part II, which will immediately follow the completion of Part I, will include the evidence on all the other oils specified in Schedule E to notice No. 323.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of March 1973.

C. H. S. RODDEN,
Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.

P.O. Box 27046, Wellington.

Registration Office of the Buller Branding Registration District Appointed (Notice No. 445 Ag. 1128)

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 70 of the Animals Act 1967, and to a delegation from the Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries under section 10 of the Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1953, for the purposes of the said section, the Director, Animal Health Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries hereby appoints the Borough of Westport, in lieu of the Borough of Greymouth, as the place at which the registration office for the Buller Branding Registration District shall, as from the date hereof, be situated.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of March 1973.

G. H. ADLAM, Director, Animal Health Division,
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Members of Bobby Calf Pool Committee Elected

PURSUANT to the Bobby Calf Marketing Regulations 1955, notice has been received by the New Zealand Dairy Board that the persons whose names are set out under the name of the Bobby Calf Pool Committee in the Schedule hereto have been duly elected as members of that committee.

SCHEDULE

Central Taranaki Bobby Calf Pool Committee—
Keith Duncan Macartney,
Phillip George Martin,
Patrick Joseph Coffey,
Eddie Percival Jacobsen,
Alfred Inglis Benefield,
Evan David Bayly,
Douglas Gordon Johnson,
Ian Michael McDonald,
James Russell Sulzberger, and
John William Walsh.

Dated this 19th day of March 1973.

P. S. GREEN, General Secretary,
New Zealand Dairy Board.

Licensing Russell Boating Club to Occupy a Site for a Boat Grid at Matauwhi Bay

PURSUANT to section 162 of the Harbours Act 1950, the Executive Officer, Harbours and Foreshores Section, Ministry of Transport, acting under a delegation from the Minister of Transport pursuant to section 265A of the aforesaid Act, hereby licenses and permits Frank Stuart Friend, Cyril Joseph Bosanquet, James Laidlaw, Ivan Isadore Anderson, Hugh Alexander Fenn, and John Philip Moffett (acting as trustees for the Russell Boating Club for the purpose of this licence) (hereinafter called the licensee, which term shall include their administrators, executors or assigns, unless the context requires a different construction) to use and occupy a part of the foreshore and bed of the sea at Matauwhi Bay, as shown on plan marked M.D. 14865 and deposited in the office of the Ministry of Transport at Wellington, for the purpose of main-