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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 113

the transferee, and no such transfer shall have any force or affect until the same has been sanctioned by the Council and a memorandum thereof under the hands of the County Chairman and Clerk has been endorsed on the license. A fee of five shillings shall be payable to the Council on every such transfer.

11. In case the keeper of any billiard-room shall die at any time during the currency of his license, or shall at any time during the currency thereof (through sickness, insanity, or otherwise) become incapable of controlling and managing his billiard-room, it shall be lawful for the County Clerk, with the approval of the Inspector, to appoint some respectable person to take temporary charge of the billiard-room, and to conduct and manage the same for the benefit of the keeper or his estate, but in such case a formal application for a transfer of the license shall be made as speedily as possible. If the keeper be dead, the application may be signed by his personal representatives, or by his widow or next-of-kin if no such representatives have been appointed.

12. Every keeper of a billiard-room—
    (a.) Shall cause the billiard-room, and every way, passage, or staircase leading thereto, to be maintained in good and clean order and condition, and shall provide and maintain in the like order and condition all proper sanitary conveniences for the use of his customers :
    (b.) Shall keep the billiard-room closed during the “closing-hours for licensed premises” as the same are defined by section 189 of the Licensing Act, 1908; and shall not permit or suffer any of the games mentioned or referred to in clause 1 hereof to be played in the billiard-room at any time when the same is or should be closed in accordance with the foregoing provision :
    (c.) Shall permit any Inspector appointed under this by-law, and every constable or other police officer, to have at all times free access and entry to and into the billiard-room and every part thereof, and to and into all outbuildings and other premises appurtenant thereto.
    (d.) Shall use his best endeavours to prevent any drunken person from entering the billiard-room, and shall eject therefrom (using such force as may be necessary for the purpose) any drunken person who has gained admittance thereto, as well as every person who shall be found gambling or betting, or using improper language, or behaving himself improperly therein.

13. Every keeper who by himself, his assistants or servants, commits a breach of any provision contained in this by-law, or causes or permits or suffers any such breach to be committed, and every person who aids or abets in or connives at or is privy to the commission of any such breach, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this by-law, and shall for each such offence be liable to a penalty of five pounds (£5).

14. If any keeper shall be convicted of an offence against this by-law, or shall be guilty of any crime or serious misconduct, his license may be cancelled or suspended at the pleasure of the Council.

15. This by-law shall not apply to billiard-rooms situate in premises for the time being licensed under the Licensing Act, 1908.

16. A copy of this by-law, printed in large type, shall be posted in every billiard-room in such a position as to be clearly and distinctly visible to and legible by every person entering the room.

Schedule.

FORM OF LICENSE FOR BILLIARD-ROOM.

County of Hawke’s Bay: To wit.

Upon the application of __, of __, I __, Clerk of the County of Hawke’s Bay, acting by the authority and on behalf of the Council of the said county, do hereby license as a billiard-room, from the day of the date hereof until the 31st day of March, 19, inclusive (subject, however, to the provisions of Number 15 of the by-laws of the said county), the room or premises situate at __, and now in the occupation of the said applicant. And I do hereby acknowledge to have received from the said applicant the sum of __, being the fee properly payable in respect of this license.

Dated this __ day of __, 191____.

County Clerk.

Given under the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hawke’s Bay this 15th day of September, 1916.

THOMAS CROSSE, Chairman.
ARTHUR HENRY FERGUSON, Clerk.

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NEW ZEALAND DREADNOUGHT GAS COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

Palmerston North, 29th September, 1916.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1916; and in the matter of the New Zealand Dreadnought Gas Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that at the annual general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at Waipukurau on the 26th day of September, 1916, the following extraordinary resolution was passed, viz.:—

“That it has been proved to its satisfaction that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, that it is advisable to wind up the same, and that it go into voluntary liquidation forthwith.”

And that at the same meeting the undersigned was, by ordinary resolution, appointed Liquidator.

P. L. SIM, Liquidator.

643

EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Eketahuna Borough hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of five hundred pounds (£500), authorized to be raised by the Eketahuna Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of installing a drainage system in the Alfredton Road Special Drainage Area, in accordance with the plans drawn up by the Council, the said work having been recommended by the Public Health Officer and approved of by the Minister of Public Health, under the provisions of section 69 of the Public Health Act, 1908, the Eketahuna Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence halfpenny (2½d.) in the pound (£1) upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Alfredton Road Special Drainage Area, comprising Lots 1 to 13, 62 to 78, of Section 12, and the northern portion of Section 12 adjoining the Alfredton Road, parts Section 13, Lots 1, 6, 7, and half Lots 3 and 4, D.P. 3146, being part Lot 38, Section 13, Lots 30 to 44, Lots 1 to 5, Lots 40 to 42, Lots 45 to 48, part Lot 50, Lots 51, 52, and 61, of Section 13, Eketahuna, being all the property adjoining Jones Street, Anderson Street, and Alfredton Road. And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The above special resolution was passed at a special meeting of the Eketahuna Borough Council held on 25th September, 1916.

F. C. TURNER, Mayor.
T. PARSONS, Councillor.
J. PRENDEVILLE, Town Clerk.

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BOROUGH OF CROMWELL.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Cromwell Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the Borough of Cromwell, under the above-mentioned Act, for piping in the Firewood Creek Water-supply, the Cromwell Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of fivepence in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Cromwell, comprising the whole of the Borough of Cromwell; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of February and the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-two years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

In witness whereof the common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Cromwell was affixed to the above resolution making special rate, made and passed at a duly constituted meeting of the Cromwell Borough Council this 26th day of September, 1916.

A. M. BRODRICK, Mayor.
THOMAS VARCOE, Councillor.
A. STEPHENS, Town Clerk.

We hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution making a special rate duly made and passed at a special