Feb. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 591

powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the Tuapeka 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 11th day of January, 1919, 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 Tuapeka, and known as the Happy Valley 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 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 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.

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 Tuapeka County Jockey Club were made and passed by such club on the 11th day of January, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

D. MUNRO, Chairman.
H. L. BRETT, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Tuapeka County Jockey Club are hereby approved this 25th day of January, 1923.

223 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—MANAWATU GORGE CONTRIBUTION LOAN OF £1,600.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Palmerston North Borough 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 £1,600, authorized to be raised by the Palmerston North Borough Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of providing the Council’s contribution to the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control towards the special work of widening the Manawatu Gorge Road, the said Palmerston North Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one forty-sixth of a penny (1/46d.) in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property within the Borough of Palmerston North; 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 year and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

224 J. A. NASH, Mayor.

HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

WORKERS’ DWELLINGS LOAN, £5,000, 1923.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the Housing Act, 1919, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and amendments thereof respectively, the Hastings Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, repayment, and other charges on a loan of £5,000, authorized by special order to be raised by the Hastings Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings in the Borough of Hastings, the said Hastings Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/18th of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Borough of Hastings, comprising the whole of the Borough of Hastings; 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 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.

G. A. MADDISON, Mayor.
PERCY R. PURSER, Town Clerk.

225

TE PUKE LAND DRAINAGE BOARD.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the above Board held at Te Puke on Tuesday, the 13th day of February, 1923, the following resolution was carried :—

That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Te Puke Land Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows,—

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and other charges on a loan of three thousand pounds (£3,000), authorized to be raised by the Te Puke Land Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for making the following works—completing the Raparapahoe Drain, and widening and straightening the existing drain; removing willows on drain above the Tauranga–Te Puke Road; widening the Kopuaroa Drain six (6) ft., and deepening it so that the fall may be taken up to Luke’s boundary two (2) feet at boundary, and straightening the bends in Osmond’s property—the said Te Puke Land Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence halfpenny (2½d.) in the pound (£) over lands classed “A,” twopence (2d.) over lands classed “B,” and one penny halfpenny (1½d.) in the pound (£) over lands classed “C,” upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Kopuaroa Subdivision, which shall be a special rating area; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

226 A. B. MORTON, Chairman.

FELLOWS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE.

New Zealand Institute,
Wellington, 15th February, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that at the last annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute the following were elected to the Fellowship of the Institute :—

Johannes Carl Andersen.
Ven. Archdeacon Herbert W. Williams, B.A. (N.Z.), M.A. (Cantab.).

227 B. C. ASTON, Hon. Secretary.

FEATHERSTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Featherston County Council propose, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the taking of land for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings thereon; and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office