Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 907

near Oamaru, under the style or firm of “Thomas Hopwood and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 31st day of January, 1920. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by Mr. THOMAS HOPWOOD, who will continue to carry on the said business under the style or firm of “Thomas Hopwood and Co.”

Dated the 6th day of March, 1920.

THOS. HOPWOOD.
JAS. BOADEN.
CHARLES HEDGES.

Witness to all signatures—Albert J. Grave, Solicitor, Oamaru.
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RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Lake County Jockey Club at a meeting held on the 20th day of January, 1920, at Queenstown, with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. R. M. Paterson, 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. R. M. Paterson, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr. Ed. Monson 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:—

LAKE COUNTY JOCKEY 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 Lake County Jockey Club, a racing club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 12th day of May, 1913, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the racecourse situated in the district of Wakatipu, and known as the Frankton 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,” “racing 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 housebreaking 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 Lake County Jockey Club were made and passed by the Lake County Jockey Club on the 20th day of January, 1920, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

R. M. PATERSON, Chairman.
J. J. McBRIDE, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Lake County Jockey Club are hereby approved this 4th day of February, 1920.

234 LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Success Gold-dredging Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration: 25th May, 1910.

Whether in active operation or not: Dredging now stopped.

Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Masterton; Norman H. James.

Nominal capital: £10,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £10,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £8,000.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): £8,000.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: £2,000.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 10,000.

Number of shares allotted: 10,000.

Amount paid up per share: 20s.

Amount called up per share: 20s.

Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.

Number of shares forfeited: Nil.

Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 7.

Present number of shareholders: 127.

Number of men employed by company: Nil.

Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year: Nil.

Total quantity and value produced since registration: 12,355 oz. 17 dwt.; valued at £48,719 11s. 7d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £115 17s.

Total expenditure since registration: £50,477 2s. 4d.

Total amount of dividends declared: £5,500.

Total amount of dividends paid: £5,500.

Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.

Amount of cash in bank and on deposit: £17 16s. 1d.

Amount of cash in hand: Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.

Amount of debts considered good: Nil.

Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

Amount of debts owing by company: £153 11s. 2d.

I, Norman Howard James, the Secretary of the Success Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as at 31st January, 1920; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

NORMAN H. JAMES.

Declared at Masterton this 9th day of March, 1920, before me—G. D. Wilson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Horowhenua County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also for the other charges on a loan of £750, authorized to be raised by the Horowhenua County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for surveying and constructing road (North Bank—Otaki Gorge), the said Horowhenua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the North Bank Road-Otaki Gorge Special Rating District, comprising Sections 16 and 17, Block IV, Kaitawa S.D., and Sections 18, 19, and 20, Block V, Taungata S.D.; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the first day of June in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

286 P. W. GOLDSMITH, County Clerk.

PAPAKURA TOWN BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two thousand pounds (£2,000), autho-