Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2835

Borough Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for drainage, sewerage, road-construction, and the construction of footpaths, the said Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ¾d. (three farthings) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Borough of Paeroa, such rate being based on the unimproved value; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the first day of April 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, at the office of the Paeroa Borough Council situated in Wharf Street, Paeroa.

930 P. C. FURLEY, Town Clerk.

KAIRANGA 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 Kairanga 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 £1,200 in respect of the Fitzherbert Riding, authorized to be raised by the Kairanga County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of erecting workmen’s cottages in the Fitzherbert Riding, the said Kairanga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fortieth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the said riding; and that such rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April 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.

931 F. W. CONNELL, Town Clerk.

WHANGAREI HARBOUR BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Whangarei Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1914, the Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting and Empowering Act, 1919, and the Harbours Act, 1908, and of all other powers (if any) thereunto enabling, the Whangarei Harbour Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Whangarei Harbour Board’s Empowering Loan of £120,000, authorized to be raised by the Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of improving the Whangarei Harbour and purchase of dredger and plant, the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one and three-eighths of a penny (1⅜d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Whangarei Harbour District; 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 November in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

932 J. McKINNON, Secretary.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the North Taranaki Hunt Club at a meeting held on the 18th day of September, 1920, at New Plymouth, with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. B. H. Chaney, 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. B. H. Chaney, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr. A. H. Standish 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:—

NORTH TARANAKI HUNT 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 North Taranaki Hunt 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 July, 1920, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the Borough of New Plymouth situated in the district of Taranaki, and known as the Taranaki Jockey Club’s 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 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 North Taranaki Hunt Club were made and passed by the North Taranaki Hunt Club on the 18th day of September, 1920, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

B. H. CHANEY, Chairman.

E. L. HUMPHRIES, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the North Taranaki Hunt Club are hereby approved this 25th day of September, 1920.

933 ROBERT STOUT, Administrator.

CHANGE OF NAME.

I, WILLIAM DAVID ROSS, heretofore called and known by the name of William David Ramsden, of 118A Grey Street in the City of Auckland, hereby give public notice that on the 21st day of September, 1920, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of “Ramsden,” and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Ross” instead of the said name of “Ramsden,” and I give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the 21st day of September, 1920, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the office of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District, at Auckland, on the thirtieth day of September, 1920, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Ramsden,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of William David Ross instead of William David Ramsden, and so as to be at all times hereafter called, known, and described by the name of William David Ross exclusively.

Dated the 1st day of October, 1920.

WILLIAM DAVID ROSS.

(Late WILLIAM DAVID RAMSDEN.)

934

CHANGE OF NAME.

I, ERNEST FRANK SMEETON, of 3 Malakoff Street, East St. Kilda, in the State of Victoria, Metallurgist, formerly named Ernest Barton Farr, hereby give notice that on the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said name of Ernest Barton Farr, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Ernest Frank Smeeton instead of the said name of Ernest Barton Farr; and I further give notice that by a deed-poll dated the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, duly executed and attested, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said name of Ernest Barton Farr, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Ernest Frank Smeeton, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of Ernest Frank Smeeton exclusively.

Dated the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

935 ERNEST FRANK SMEETON.