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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 76

same be passed at once with a view to their approval by His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33. Mr. Albert Bruce, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. Ernest Feltus Adams seconded, and it was resolved, that such regulations should be adopted, and that the Chairman and Secretary be authorized to sign the same in authentication thereof. The following are the regulations referred to :-

THAMES 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 Thames 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 28th day of February, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the club's property situated in the district of Parawai, Thames, and known as the Thames 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 book- makers' 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 Conference, or the New Zealand Trotting Association. (d.) Common prostitutes, and persons who habitually con- sort with thieves or 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. Provided always that the Stipendiary Stewards' Committee appointed by the New Zealand Racing Conference, upon being satisfied by evidence as to character and otherwise that any person who, by reason of any conviction, comes within the scope of this regulation should have relief from the effect thereof, may grant exemption to any such person, and may at any time revoke any such exemption without notice to such person, and without assigning any reason for such revocation. The foregoing regulations of the Thames Jockey Club were made and passed by such club on the 5th day of October, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary. ALBERT BRUCE, Chairman. ARTHUR C. RAE, Secretary. The foregoing regulations of the Thames Jockey Club are hereby approved this 13th day of October, 1922. 955A' JELLICOE, Governor-General. NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOHN SUTHERLAND and WILLIAM EDWARD MORGAN, carrying on business as Farmers at Waronui under the style of "Sutherland and Morgan," has been dissolved so far as concerns the said William Edward Morgan, who retires from the said firm. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said JOHN SUTHERLAND. Dated the 12th day of October, 1922. JOHN SUTHERLAND. WILLLIAM E. MORGAN. LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL. RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.-£2,500 UNEMPLOYMENT LOAN. IN pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Lower Hutt Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:- That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £2,500, authorized to be raised by the Lower Hutt Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act and Amendment Act, for providing work for the unem- ployed residents of the borough by carrying out certain drainage-extension works, the said Lower Hutt Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fifteenth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the borough, comprising the whole of the Borough of Lower Hutt; and that such rate be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the Ist day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until such loan is fully paid off. W. T. STRAND, Mayor. 957 J. F. EAMES, Town Clerk. TIMARU BOROUGH 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 Timaru Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of the principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Timaru Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the certain purposes set out in Part XXXVII, Sections 329 to 333 (relating to workers' dwellings) of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920-viz., to purchase, acquire, and ap- propriate in or adjacent to the Borough of Timaru land on which to erect on such land workers' dwellings as aforesaid, and to fit up, furnish, and supply the same with furniture or fittings and conveniences, and for such other purposes set out in the said Part 37 as the said Council may decide, the said Timaru Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of a penny in the pound sterling upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Timaru, comprising the whole of the said borough ; 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 thirty-six years six months, or until the loan is fully paid off. F. J. ROLLESTON, Mayor. 958 D. VIRTUE, Town Clerk. PELORUS ROAD BOARD. SPECIAL ORDER AUTHORIZING LOAN OF £2,600. IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it by section 6, subsection (1), of the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22, and by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of all other Acts and powers (if any) it in that behalf enabling (Orders in Council in pursuance of section 20 of the Finance Act, 1919, and section 2 of the Finance Act, 1921, having been obtained authorizing the Board to borrow), the Pelorus Road Board hereby resolves by way of special order as follows :-1. That the Board proceed to raise a loan of two thousand six hundred pounds (£2,600) for the purpose of repaying the Board's antecedent liability as defined by the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22. 2. That such loan be called "The Pelorus Road Board Antecedent Liability Loan of £2,600, 1922." 3. That the currency of the said loan shall be for a period of twenty (20) years, commencing on the Ist day of September, 1922, and maturing on the Ist day of September, 1942. 4. That the interest on the said loan shall be at the rate of six pounds (£6) per centum per annum, and be payable half- yearly on the Ist day of March and September in each and every year. 5. That the form of security for the payment of principal and interest on the said loan shall be four (4) debentures of six hundred and fifty pounds (£650) each, relative coupons in a form in conformity with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. 6. That the Board doth hereby appropriate and pledge as security for the repayment of the said loan, and the interest, sinking fund, and other charges thereon, the special rate of one-eighth of a penny (§d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole of the Pelorus Road District. 7. That the principal and interest shall be payable at the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington. CHARLES NEES, Chairman. 950 D. MORRISON, Secretary.