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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 12 October 1917, Page 2

The Greatest Song Book Bargain Ever Offered. Braithwaite's are selling 5 COLONIAL SONGSTERS, Nos. 1 to 5, for 1/- per set of 5, post free. These Song Books contain nearly 500 Songs, Recitations, Dialogues, Conundrums and Anecdotes (From Grave to Gay). DONT MISS -THIS BARGAIN. Write to us for any article* you want ill — Crockery Books Leather Goods Games Stationery Toys Note Address BRMTHWAIIE'S limited Princes St. - Dunedin. ! ; Requisition of New Zealand Wool. Requirements' as to Branding by ' Growers. , i - • ' ... I T is notified for the information of a all wooi-growers throughout New Zealand, that in accordance with instructions received from the Imperial Army Contracts Wool Department, London, all wool sent by growers 10 Government woolhrokers for valuation and purchase mu3t be branded with the grower's on one end and on one side only of each bale. The side on which the brand must be placed is one of. the flat si :es—in other words, either of the sides of the bale not exposed when the doors ot the press are open. Letters and figures appearing in the brand must not bo less than three inches in height. In any case where the branding !of the ivool ha=? not been effected by the owner strictly in accordance with these requirements, the Government woolbroker to whom the wool'is forwarded will correct the faulty branding at the expense of the grower. B. TRIGGS, Controller, Department of Imperial Government Supplies. - ! Wellington, Ist October, 1917.

Amusements-tax. • FINANCE ACT, 1917. - NOTICE is hsreby given that, pursuant to the provisions of Part 111 of the Finance Act, 1917, on .and after the Ist day of November, 1917, the Amusements-Tax provided for in the Fifth Schedule of tfie s'aid Act will become payable for admission to a'.l entertainments within the meaning of the said Act at the rates specified in the said Fifth Schedule. "Entertainment " includes., any exhibition, performance, amusement, game, or sport to which persons are admitted for payment. "Proprietor" in relation to any entertainment includes any person responsible for the management thereof. Proprietors as aforesaid are h'ereby notified that arrangements should be made without delay with the Commissioner of Stamps or the Deputy Commissioner of Stamps in the nearest frovincial District regarding the man • ner in which ths amusements-tax shall be paid, as provided for*, by the said Act. ; ! P. C. CORLISS, Commissioner of Stamps. Claims fop Exemptions and Deductions for* the Income-tax. Land and Income-Tax Department, Wellington, Bth Octobsr, 1917: NOTICE is hereby gjiven that the Finance Act, 1917, extends the special exemption of £25 in respect of each of a taxpayayer's children. Previously this exemption was allowed (1) in respect of not more than five children of a taxpayer, and (2) only when the combined income of the father anr 1 mocher of the children diJ not exceed '•£425. These two limitations are now re moved. Under the above Act, a claim may be made in respect of each rliild dependent on the taxpayer and under the age of sixteen, and by any taxpayer irrespective of the amount of his income. 1 , The Act, as further amended, empowers the Commissioner to make an allowance by way' of depreciation on the uriginal cost to tiie taxpayer of pre--1 mises-actually used in the proriuctioa of the income. As the returns of income already furnishpd for the year ended 31st March, 1917, were made under the old provisions, taxpayers who are eligible for the above exemption or depreciation allowance are required, on or before the 81st October, 19i7, to furnish me with the necessary particulars on forms which may . be obtained at the various postal money-order offices throughout the Dominion. The forms will be posted to taxpayers on receipt of a request accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. D. G. CLARK, Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington. Note. —If a taxpayer has claimed in the return of income already furnished for the year ended 31st March, 1917, the allowance for all his children under sixteen, no further particulars in this respect are necessary. FOR Sale, Horse, Gig and Harness —Apply, Mrs C. Brown, Naseby. \