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VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE FOR ANTECEDENT LIABILITY LOAN, £5,300.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £5,300, authorized to be raised by the Vincent County Council, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921–22, and the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of paying off its antecedent liability, the said Vincent County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-seventh of a penny (1/7d.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the ridings of Hawera, Clutha, Lindis, Carrick, Dunstan, Manukau, Matakana, and Earnscleugh, comprising the whole of the County of Vincent; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the fifteenth day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten (10) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

JAMES RITCHIE, Acting-Chairman.

ROBERT M. RAY, County Clerk.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of THE WELLINGTON MOTORS (LIMITED), in Liquidation, and THE CITY MOTOR WORKS (LIMITED), in Liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above-named companies are required on or before the 31st day of January, 1923, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any) to Anderson and Hayward Public Accountants, Wellington, the Liquidators of the said companies; and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Liquidators, are personally or by their solicitors to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts or claims are proved.

Dated this 11th day of December, 1922.

ANDERSON AND HAYWARD, Liquidators.

105 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of THE WELLINGTON MOTORS (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the above-named company duly convened and held at Wellington on the 11th day of December, 1922, the following extraordinary resolution was duly passed:

“‘That owing to the fact that it is proved to the satisfaction of the shareholders that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, it is advisable to wind up the same, and that therefore the company be wound up voluntarily; and that Messrs. ANDERSON AND HAYWARD, of Wellington, Public Accountants, be and are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up; and that Messrs. W. L. THOMPSON, G. T. HULL, and H. J. STOTT be an Advisory Committee to act with the Liquidators.”

Dated this 11th day of December, 1922.

W. L. THOMPSON, Chairman.

G. T. HULL, Director.

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RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Inangahua Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 24th day of October, 1922, at Reefton, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. A. T. Brooks, that the 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. A. T. Brooks, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. John Barnett 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:

INANGAHUA 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 Inangahua Trotting Club, a trotting club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth

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hereby revoke the regulations dated the 4th day of August, 1922, 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 Reefton, and known as the Reefton 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 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 consort 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 Trotting 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 Inangahua Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 24th day of October, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

A. T. BROOKS, Chairman.

JAMES NOBLE, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Inangahua Trotting Club are hereby approved this 4th day of December, 1922.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

OTAMATEA LANDS (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the Otamatea Lands (Limited) held at the Secretary’s Office, 12 Panama Street, Wellington, on Monday, the 6th day of November, 1922, at 5 p.m., the subjoined resolution was duly passed as an extraordinary resolution:

“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the directors that the company by reason of its liabilities cannot continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up same, and that accordingly the company be wound up voluntarily under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908; and that Mr. H. J. STOTT has been appointed Liquidator.”

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HARRY J. STOTT, Liquidator.

NOTICE

is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between ANDREW REAY, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury and Dominion of New Zealand, Furniture-manufacturer, and ROBERT BEATTIE, of Christchurch aforesaid, Roofing-tiler, carrying on business as Roofing-tile Manufacturers at Christchurch aforesaid under the style or firm of “Beattie and Co.,’” has been dissolved as from the 14th day of August, 1922. The business will in future be carried on under the aforesaid name by the said ANDREW REAY, by whom all liabilities will be liquidated and to whom all accounts should be paid.

Dated at Christchurch this 11th day of December, 1922.

A. REAY.

R. BEATTIE.

Witness to both signatures—T. H. Williams, Solicitor, Christchurch.

In connection with the above, I have much pleasure in being able to announce that Mr. BEATTIE will continue to act as distributing agent for the firm.

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A. REAY.**