20 MARCH

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Environmental Impact Report Notified—Maui Development—Design and Construction of the Oaonui Production Station

THE Commission for the Environment gives notice that it has received an environmental impact report on the proposal to construct the Maui Gas and Condensate Production Station at Oaonui.

Representations in writing on the environmental aspects of the project, as it is explained in the report, will be received at the office of the Commission, P.O. 12–042, Wellington North, until Friday, 18 April 1975.

Copies of the report may be purchased from Shell BP and Todd Oil Services Limited, Private Bag, New Plymouth, at a cost of $25.00, or seen at the public library at New Plymouth, Opunake, Hawera, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, or Dunedin or at the libraries of the seven university institutions.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of March 1975.
W. D. WENDELKEN,
Acting Commissioner for the Environment.
(Env. 8/17A)

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the undersigned Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, acting under powers delegated to the Secretary to the Treasury by the Minister of Finance, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Local Authority and Name of Loan Amount Consented to $

Auckland City Council:
Zoo Development Additional Loan 1974 65,000
Redemption Loan No. 120, 1975 139,000
Freemans Bay Housing Rehabilitation Loan 1974 200,000
Auckland Harbour Board:
Redemption Loan No. 1, 1975 543,000
Redemption Loan No. 2, 1975 134,000
Redemption Loan No. 3, 1975 282,000
Christchurch City Council:
Renewal Loan (Town Hall) 1975 131,490
Christchurch Drainage Board:
Renewal Loan No. 1, 1975 336,000
Renewal Loan No. 2, 1975 133,000
Feilding Borough Council:
Civic Centre Redemption Loan 1975 18,000
Gisborne City Council:
Renewal Loan No. 1, 1975 41,200
Hamilton City Council:
Sewer Loan No. 2, 1974 1,000,000
North Shore Drainage Board:
Redemption Loan No. 17, 1975 274,000
Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board:
Redemption Loan 1975 73,200
Papakura City Council:
Water Supply Improvement Renewal Loan 1975 7,000
Porirua City Council:
Reserves Development Loan No. 2, 1974 85,000
Taranaki Harbours Board:
Redemption Loan No. 1, 1975 250,000
Taieri County Council:
Waldronville Community Drainage Renewal Loan No. 3, 1975 2,500
Fairfield Community Drainage:
Renewal Loan No. 3, 1975 15,800
Tauranga City Council:
Water Supply Improvement Loan 1974 2,050,000
Lower Maungapapa-Ruahihi Generation Loan No. 2, 1974 5,000,000
Sewerage Loan No. 5, 1974 750,000
Wanganui City Council:
Whanganui City Bridge Redemption Loan 1975 27,700

Local Authority and Name of Loan Amount Consented to $

Wellington City Council:
Pensioner Housing (Cockayne Road) Loan 1975 14,000
Northern Tip Site Loan 1974 400,000
Wharangi Land Purchase and Development Loan 1974 500,000
Winton Borough Council:
Memorial Hall Renewal Loan 1975 3,800

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 on 31 March 1975 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 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 1975.

(3) Returns of land are not required for classes of land used solely or principally for the purpose of a business of—
(a) Animal husbandry (including poultry-keeping, beekeeping and the breeding of horses); or
(b) Growing fruit, vegetables, or other crop producing plants; or
(c) Horticulture; or
(d) 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 an “unimproved value”. Under section 48 of the Land and Income Tax Act 1954, the unimproved values prevailing as at 31 March 1970 are to be taken to be the unimproved values in assessing land tax for the year ended 31 March 1975.

(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 11th day of March 1975.
D. A. STEVENS, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

New Zealand Dairy Board—Notice of Election of Members for Eastern, Northern, and Wellington Wards

I, Jack Lionel Wright, Returning Officer, appointed under section 10 of the Dairy Board Act 1961, do hereby give notice of a poll to elect a member for the Eastern Ward and a member for the Northern Ward and a member for the Wellington Ward on the New Zealand Dairy Board, and do hereby give further notice that Wednesday, 16 April 1975, is the date on which the rolls of electors for these wards shall be closed; that the nominations of candidates for the election of one member for each of the said wards must be in my hands by 12 noon on Wednesday, 21 May 1975; and that in the event of more than one candidate being nominated in any of the said wards, a poll will be held and such poll will be closed at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 June 1975.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of March 1975.
J. L. WRIGHT, Returning Officer, Chief Electoral Office, Wellington.