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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 24

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 vaga-
bonds, 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 Vincent Jockey Club were
made and passed by such club on the 13th day of December,
1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

ANDREW C. SCOULAR, Chairman.
GEO. A. FRANCIS, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Vincent Jockey Club are
hereby approved this 10th day of January, 1923.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

MACKENZIE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it
in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the
Mackenzie County Council hereby resolves as follows:-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Mackenzie
County Council Lilybank Telephone Lines Loan of £550,
1923, authorized to be raised by the Mackenzie County
Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose
of the erection and maintenance of telephone-lines to Lily-
bank, Mount Gerald, and Richmond Stations in the County
of Mackenzie, the said Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of one halfpenny (½d.) in the £1 sterling on the
rateable value (on the basis of capital value) of all rateable
property in the whole of the Richmond, Mount Gerald, and
Lilybank Special Rating Area of the County of Mackenzie,
being Rural Sections 35532, area 40 acres; all that portion
of Run 77 included within the boundaries of the Mackenzie
County, area 27,600 acres; all that portion of Run 77A
included within the boundaries of the Mackenzie County,
area 44,500 acres; Rural Section 14452, area 20 acres; the
whole of Run 78, area 70,000 acres. 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
October in each and every year during the currency of such
loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan
is fully paid off.

E. MACDONALD, Chairman.
R. L. BANKS, Clerk.

WEBER COUNTY COUNCIL.

LOAN OF £5,000 FOR RECONSTRUCTING, REFORMING, CULVERT-
ING, AND METALLING VARIOUS ROADS (LOAN No. 9).

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the
Weber 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 £5,000 (five thousand pounds), authorized to be
raised by the Weber County Council, under the Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1913, for the purposes of-(1) reconstructing,
culverting, and metalling main Dannevirke-Herbertville
Road, £3,600; (2) reforming, culverting, and metalling Tahua-
karetu Road, £500; (3) reforming, culverting, and metalling
Oporae-Waihi Road, £250; (4) reforming, culverting, and
metalling Waione Road, £250; reforming, culverting, and
metalling Esdaile Road, £400: total, £5,000--the said Weber
County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
5/32nds (five thirty-seconds) of a penny in the pound upon
the rateable value of all the rateable property (on the basis
of the unimproved value) comprising the whole County of
Weber; and that such special rate shall be an annual-
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be
payable yearly on the twenty-first day of July 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.

A. L. STEWART, Chairman.

PATEA 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
Patea County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing interest and other
charges on a loan of £200, authorized to be raised by the
Patea County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for
reforming, widening, and metalling the Ahuroa Hill on the
Ahuroa Road, the said Patea County Council hereby makes
and levies a special rate of one-eighth of one penny in the
pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of
the Ahuroa Special Rating area, comprising Sections 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10, Block IV, Opaku Survey District;
Sections 4, 5, 6, and 8 of Block VIII, Opaku Survey Dis-
trict; Subsections 1 and 3 of Kahuroa Block 3, and Sec-
tion 2, Block III, Opaku Suvrey District; and Section 2,
Block VII, Opaku Survey District; all within the following
boundaries--commencing at the Matai Trig. Station; thence
along the northern boundary of the Patea and Eltham
Counties in an easterly direction generally to the point
where the said boundary-line strikes the western boundary
of Forest Reserve No. 4, Block I; thence in a south-easterly
and southerly direction along the eastern boundary of Sec-
tions 10 and 4 of Block IV to the Kapara Trig. Station ;
thence west along the southern boundary of Sections 4 and
5, Block IV, and along the eastern, southern, and western
boundaries of Section 6, Block IV; along the southern
boundary of Section 7, Block IV, and eastern boundary of
Sections 8, Block II, and 5, Block VIII; along the north-
eastern boundary of Section 4, Block VIII, to its junction
with the Ngarahu Road; thence in a south-westerly direc-
tion along the Ngarahu Road to its junction with the
Whenuakura Valley Road; thence in a northerly direction
along the Whenuakura Valley Road to a point where it
crosses the confiscation line; thence in a north-westerly direc-
tion along the confiscation line to the Riminui Trig. Station;
thence in a north-westerly direction along the western
boundaries of Subsections 1 and 3 of Kahuroa Block No. 3
to the Matai Trig. Station, the commencing-point. 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 September in each and every year during
the currency of such loan, being for a period of 36½ years,
or until such loan is fully paid off.

J. J. F. SHIELD, County Clerk.

In the matter of a Private Bill intended to be brought
into the General Assembly of New Zealand to be in-
tituled the St. John's College Trust Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the Standing
Orders of the General Assembly of New Zealand
relating to Private Bills, that the St. John's College Trust
Board (hereinafter called the Board) will, within fourteen
days after the commencement of the session of the General
Assembly of New Zealand to be held next after the date
of this notice, present a petition to the General Assembly
of New Zealand through the Honourable the Speaker and
members of the House of Representatives, praying and
applying for leave to bring in a Private Bill to be called
the St. John's College Trust Act, 1923.

The objects of the said application and Bill are to pro-
vide that-

1. The lands and funds vested in the Board as trustees
   and held by them under trusts known as Consolidated
   Scholarships, Maria Blackett Scholarships, Griffin Laing
   Scholarships, Lady Margaret Scholarships, and Widows
   Orphans' Endowment are and shall be held on the
   trusts respectively declared in the respective trust
   deeds whereby the said lands and funds were vested
   in the Board's predecessors.

2. It shall be lawful for the Board, at its discretion, from
   time to time to apply the whole or such portion or
   portions as it thinks fit of the income from the said
   lands and funds and from certain lands and funds held
   under a certain trust called the Grammar School
   Trust for the general purposes of St. John's College
   near the City of Auckland in such manner as the
   Board thinks fit for a period of twenty years from
   the passing of the said Bill, or for such longer period
   as may be directed from time to time by the General
   Synod of the Church of the Province of New Zealand.

3. All payments or applications of income from the said
   lands and funds for the general purposes of St. John's
   College aforesaid at any time prior to the passing of
   the said Bill made by the Board are validated.