Oct. 4.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

3837

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

E. A. BENNETT.

WE, the undersigned, hereby give notice to all whom it may concern that the Partnership recently carried on by us as Grocers at Northland under the style of “E. A. Bennett” is as from the 18th day of September, 1917, dissolved by mutual consent so far as the undersigned ERNEST ARTHUR BENNETT is concerned.

EDITH MARY BENNETT.
DOROTHY BENNETT.
SAMUEL G. PLANT.
KATE PLANT.

Witness to the signatures of Edith Mary Bennett, Dorothy Bennett, Samuel George Plant, and Kate Plant—R. A. Howie, Solicitor, Wellington.

E. A. BENNETT.

Witness to the signature of Ernest Arthur Bennett—E. N. Burt, Clerk, Lower Hutt.

Wellington, September, 1917.

588

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Manawatu Racing Club at a meeting held on the 27th day of August, 1917, at 8 p.m., with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. H. R. Cooper, that the same be passed at once with a view to their approval by the Governor-General, in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33.

Mr. H. R. Cooper, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr. C. A. Loughnan seconded, and it was resolved, that such regulations should be adopted, and that the Chairman be authorized to sign the same in authentication thereof.

The following are the regulations referred to:—

MANAWATU RACING CLUB.

REGULATIONS.

(Under the Gaming Act, 1908.)

In pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf contained in section 33 of the Gaming Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the Manawatu Racing Club, a racing club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the property situate in the District of Manawatu, and known as the Awapuni Racecourse, while the said racecourse is used or occupied by the said club for race meetings.

1. In these regulations the words “bookmaker,” “racing club,” and “race meeting” shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms by section 2 of the Gaming Act, 1908.

2. The following persons shall be and are hereby excluded from the racecourse above described while the same is used or occupied by the said club for a race meeting, namely:—

(a.) Bookmakers.

(b.) All persons under disqualification inflicted by any racing club in the Dominion of New Zealand, the Commonwealth of Australia, or elsewhere, if affiliated to the New Zealand Racing Conference.

(c.) Common prostitutes, and persons who habitually consort with thieves or with persons who have no lawful visible means of support.

The foregoing regulations of the Manawatu Racing Club were made and passed by the members of the Manawatu Racing Club on the 27th day of August, 1917, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

HAROLD COOPER, Chairman.
J. M. JOHNSTON, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Manawatu Racing Club are hereby approved this 21st day of September, 1917.

589

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION MADE ON FRIDAY, 21ST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1917.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Cook County 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 Cook County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for enlarging and extending the Muhunga Drain, the said Cook County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-eighths of a penny in the £1 upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Muhunga Drain Special-rating District, comprising the following lands in the Muhunga Block, viz.:—

Part 1 of Section 46, 16 acres; part Section 49, 20 acres 0 roods 23 poles; Section 48; Lot 1 of Section 51, Sections 52, 68, Lot 2 of Section 46, 15 acres; Section 67; Lot 19 of Sections 52, 53, 25 acres 1 rood; parts of Sections 51, 52, 69 acres 3 roods 24 poles; Lot 20, and Lots 1/3 of Section 21, and parts of Sections 50, 51, 51 acres 2 roods; Lot 18 of Section 53; Lot 16 of Section 54; part Lot 49, 30 acres; Section 66; Lot 3 of Section 55; Sections 56, 57, 58, 77, 81; part Section 47, 49 acres 2 roods 1 pole; Lot 15 of Section 45; Lots 2 and 4 of Section 44; Lot 23 of Sections 39 and 40; also part of Ngakaroa Block (deposit plan 1107), 200 acres; Lot 22 of Sections 39, 40, Muhunga Block.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The rate of interest to be four and one-half per cent.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook was hereto affixed in the presence of—

F. J. LYSNAR,
Chairman.

JOHN WARREN,
Clerk.

590

WESTERN TAIERI LAND DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Taieri Land Drainage Act, 1910, the Taieri Land Drainage Act, 1912, the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies’ Empowering Act, 1916, the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £850, authorized to be raised by the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of repairing the damage caused by flood in June, 1916, the said Western Taieri Land Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate on all the rateable land within the Western Taieri Land Drainage District as follows, namely:—

On all lands in Class “A”: One penny per acre.

On all lands in Class “B”: Fourteen-fifteenths of a penny per acre.

On all lands in Class “C”: Thirteen-fifteenths of a penny per acre.

On all lands in Class “D”: Four-fifths of a penny per acre.

On all lands in Class “E”: One-half of a penny per acre.

On all lands in Class “F”: One-third of a penny per acre.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the fifteenth day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I, William Ernest McLean, Clerk of the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution making a special rate passed at a meeting of the Board held this twenty-fourth day of September, 1917.

Dated at Mosgiel this 24th day of September, 1917.

W. E. McLEAN, Clerk.

591

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of one hundred pounds, authorized to be raised by the Kawhia County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of providing the Council’s contribution towards the renewal of two bridges on the Awaroa–Mahoe Road destroyed by flood, the said Kawhia