APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1079
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 else-
where, if affiliated to the New Zealand Racing Con-
ference, 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 Alexandra Racing Club
were made and passed by such club on the 20th day of
January, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.
TOM STEEL, Chairman.
WILLIAM GORDON SIM, Secretary.
The foregoing regulations of the Alexandra Racing Club
are hereby approved this 29th day of January, 1923.
430 JELLICOE, Governor-General.
In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN EDMONDSON AND CO.
PROPRIETARY (LIMITED), a company incorporated in
Victoria, proposes to carry on business throughout New Zea-
land, and that the office or place of business of the company
is situated in New Zealand Express Company Central Sample
Rooms, No. 6 Courthouse Lane, Auckland.
Dated this 11th day of April, 1923.
431 T. O. TYZACK, Attorney for Company.
HOON HAY QUARRIES (LIMITED).
IN LIQUIDATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general
meeting of the Hoon Hay Quarries (Limited) held on
the 9th day of April, 1923, the following extraordinary reso-
lutions were carried :

1. That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the com-
   pany that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities
   continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the
   same, and accordingly that the company be wound up
   voluntarily under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908.
2. That STEWART BECKETT AND Co., of Christchurch,
   Public Accountants, be and are hereby appointed Liquidators,
   at a fee to be fixed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
   Dated the 9th day of April, 1923.
   432 STEWART BECKETT AND CO., Liquidators.
   NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
   subsisting between NICHOLAS HENRY STRAW and
   GEORGE ALEXANDER CLAXTON, carrying on business as
   Butchers at Christchurch under the style or firm of "Claxton
   and Straw," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from
   the first day of March, 1923, from which date all debts due
   to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid
   respectively by the said NICHOLAS HENRY STRAW, who will
   continue to carry on the said business.
   Dated the 12th day of March, 1923.
   G. A. CLAXTON.
   Witness to the signature of George Alexander Claxton-
   G. W. C. Smithson, Solicitor, Christchurch.
   N. H. STRAW.
   Witness to the signature of Nicholas Henry Straw--R. B.
   Ward, Solicitor, Christchurch.
   BOROUGH OF THAMES.
   SPECIAL RATE.
   IN pursuance and 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
   Thames Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-
   That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
   interesting, sinking fund, and other charges on the Thames
   Borough Council Antecedent Liability Loan of £12,960,
   1923, authorized to be raised by the Council, under the
   above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of repaying the Council's
   antecedent liability as defined by the Local Bodies' Finance
   Act, 1921-22, the said Council hereby makes and levies a
   special rate of one penny (ld.) in the pound sterling on the
   rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all
   rateable property in the whole of the Borough of Thames;
   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 twenty (20) years,
   or until the loan is fully paid off.
   434 ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Town Clerk.
   THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.
   REDUCTION OF CAPITAL OF THE WAIR0A FLAXMILLS (LIMITED).
   NOTICE is hereby given that on the 13th day of April,
   1923, an order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
   made on the 27th day of March, 1923, confirming the reduction
   of the capital of the above company, and a minute of such
   reduction approved of by the Supreme Court, were duly
   registered by the Registrar of Companies at Wellington. The
   form of the said minute is as follows :-
   "The capital of the Wairoa Flaxmills (Limited) is hence-
   forth £14,666 13s. 4d., divided into 22,000 shares of 13s. 4d.
   each, of which all have been issued.
   "At the time of the registration of this minute the whole
   of the said shares have been issued and are to be deemed fully
   paid up."
   Dated at Wellington this 13th day of April, 1923.
   MEEK AND VON HAAST,
   Solicitors for the above-named Company,
   St. George's Building,
   435 Brandon Street, Wellington.
   RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.
   RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING SPECIAL RATE.--LOAN
   OF £7,200, ANTECEDENT LIABILITY.
   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 Rangi-
   tikei County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
   That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
   interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Rangitikei
   County Council Antecedent Liability Loan of £7,200, 1923,
   authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council,
   under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of repaying
   the Council's antecedent liability as defined by the Local
   Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22, the said Council hereby makes
   and levies a special rate of one sixty-fifth of a penny (1/65d.)
   in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of
   capital value) of all rateable property in the whole of the
   County of Rangitikei (exclusive of the Town District of Leth-
   bridge); and that such special rate shall be an annually
   recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be pay-
   able yearly on the first day of May 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.
   BEN. P. LETHBRIDGE, Chairman.
   436 HAROLD H. RICHARDSON, County Clerk.
   RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.
   RESOLUTION STRIKING RATE AS SECURITY FOR LOAN OF
   £2,500 FOR FORMATION OF THE WAIKOREA-WAIMAI ROAD
   AND FORMATION-WORKS ON THE WAIKOREA VALLEY AND
   COAST ROADS.
   IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
   that behalf enabling by the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
   1913, and amendments thereto, the Raglan County Council
   hereby resolves as follows :--