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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 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The rate of interest not to exceed 5¼ per cent.
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The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook was hereto affixed in the presence of—
G. R. REYNOLDS, Chairman.
T. CHAS. PERRY, Clerk.
COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION.—MADE ON 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1919.
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 £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Cook County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for constructing the Hangaroa-Tiniroto Road, the said Cook County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-eighths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Hangaroa-Tiniroto Special Rating District, comprising Town Sections 1/36, Suburban Sections 37/70, Tiniroto Village; Section 22, Tauwharetoi IA ID, Block VIII; Sections 20, 25/8, Block X; Sections 29/33, 36, 38/9, Block XI; Sections 3 (E.R.), 48/9, Block XII; Whakaongaonga 4A 4B, Block XII; Sections 16/19, 21/25, Blocks XIV, XV; Sections 34, 37, 41/2, 50/51, Block XV; Sections part 43, 44/8, 50/53, Block XVI; Waihau part 1, Lots 1/3 Waihau No. 1, and stopped road, Block XV; Tauwharetoi 3A, Block XIV; Small Grazing-runs 35, 41, 63, Lot 1 of 32; all in the Hangaroa Survey District.
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 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The rate of interest not to exceed 5¼ per cent.
The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook was hereto affixed in the presence of—
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G. R. REYNOLDS, Chairman.
T. CHAS. PERRY, Clerk.
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).
ASSETS, £9,000,000.
THIS company has appointed GEORGE GRAY AITKEN and KENNETH WILLIAM ROBINSON (carrying on business as G. G. and J. H. Aitken and Co.) as its Attorneys for New Zealand. Fire and Marine business will be transacted at the company's Head Office for New Zealand, 94 Hereford Street, Christchurch.
In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the NORTH BLACKWATER MINES (LIMITED).
NOTICE is hereby given that the registered office of the above-named company is situated at the office of Messrs. McMahon and Lee, Auctioneers, in Bridge Street, Reefton,
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and that the name of the Secretary is Thomas Hubert Lee, of Reefton.
Dated at Reefton this 18th day of February, 1919.
DAVID ZIMAN, Chairman of Directors.
RESOLUTION.
THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Timaru Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 17th day of February, 1919, at Timaru, with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. John Hole, 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. John Hole, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr. Frederick Torrie 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:—
TIMARU TROTTING 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 Timaru Trotting Club, a trotting club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as "the said club"), doth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 27th day of July, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the Timaru Racecourse Reserve situated in the District of South Canterbury, and known as the Timaru Racecourse, while the said racecourse is used or occupied by the said club for race meetings.

1. These regulations shall come into force on the date of the same being published in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. In these regulations the words “bookmaker,” “trotting club,” and “race meeting” shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms respectively by section 2 of the Gaming Act, 1908.
3. 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.) Bookmakers’ clerks, bookmakers’ assistants, and bookmakers’ agents.
   (c.) All persons under disqualification inflicted by any racing or trotting club in the Dominion of New Zealand, the Commonwealth of Australia, or elsewhere, if affiliated to the New Zealand Racing Conference, or the New Zealand Trotting Association, or the New Zealand Trotting Conference.
   (d.) Common prostitutes, and persons who habitually consort with thieves or with persons who have no lawful visible means of support.
   (e.) Professional tipsters, persons convicted of house-breaking or pocket-picking, forgery, uttering or possessing counterfeit coin, theft, false pretences, receiving stolen goods, mischief, assault, or any offence or crime of any kind under the Crimes Act, 1908, and also idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues convicted under the Police Offences Act, 1908, and persons convicted of an offence under the Gaming Act, 1908.
   The foregoing regulations of the Timaru Trotting Club were made and passed by the Timaru Trotting Club on the 17th day of February, 1919, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.
   JOHN HOLE, Chairman.
   H. H. FRASER, Secretary.
   The foregoing regulations of the Timaru Trotting Club are hereby approved this 26th day of February, 1919.
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   LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
   THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.
   WHEREAS the Wanganui Harbour Board has recently erected a slip upon the lands at Wanganui known as Whakaniwha No. 2, the erection of such slip being a public work within the meaning of the above Act: And whereas the said Board has found it desirable for the use, convenience, or enjoyment of such public work as aforesaid to acquire other lands, being part of the land known as Whakaniwha Nos. 4A and 4B:
   Now, therefore, in pursuance of the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, the Wanganui Harbour Board hereby gives notice that it intends to acquire the lands described in the Schedule hereto, and that such lands are required and will require to be taken by the Board under the provisions of the above Act; and that a survey has been made and a plan prepared, and signed by John Annabell, a Licensed Surveyor, showing such land; and that a copy of such plan has been deposited in the office of the Wanganui Harbour Board, and there lies open for inspection; and that all persons affected are hereby required to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the said Board at Wanganui.
   Dated at Wanganui this 27th day of February, 1919.
   THE SCHEDULE.
   APPROXIMATE areas:—
   A. R. P.
   0 1 7·33, part Whakaniwha 4A, Wanganui District.
   0 0 35·4, part Whakaniwha 4B, Wanganui District.
   Colour on plan : Red.
   F. C. MILLWARD,
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   Secretary, Wanganui Harbour Board.
   In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908.
   PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the Education Board of the District of Taranaki proposes to provide land as a school-site; and for such purpose requires to take all that piece of land in Block VI, Opunake Survey District,