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recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. D. W.
Westenra, 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. D. W. Westenra, the Chairman of such club and the
meeting, moved, and Mr. J. H. Grigg 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:

CHRISTCHURCH HUNT CLUB.

REGULATIONS.
(Under the Gaming Act, 1908.)

In pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf con-
tained in section 33 of the Gaming Act, 1908, and of all
other powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the
Christchurch Hunt Club, a racing club within the meaning
of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as "the said club"),
doeth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 13th day of
August, 1922, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the fol-
lowing regulations controlling the admission of persons to
that part of the Riccarton Racecourse situated in the district
of Canterbury, and known as the Riccarton 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,

4. 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 else-
where, 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 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 Christchurch Hunt Club
were made and passed by such club on the 14th day of Feb-
ruary, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

D. W. WESTENRA, Chairman.
S. P. GODFREY, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Christchurch Hunt Club
are hereby approved this 16th day of May, 1923.

555

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wairoa County Council
proposes, under the provisions of the above-entitled
Acts, to execute a certain public work--namely, the forma-
tion and construction of a public road, being a deviation of
the Ruapapa-Waikaretaheke public road; and for that
purpose the lands described in the Schedule hereto are re-
quired to be taken. And notice is likewise given that a plan
of the said lands is deposited at the office of the said Council
in Queen Street in the Borough of Wairoa, and is open for
inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office
hours.

All persons affected are called upon to set forth in writing
any well-grounded objections they may have to the execution
of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands,
and to send such writing, within forty days from the first
publication of this notice (namely, the twenty-first day of
May, 1923), to the said Council at its office aforesaid.

Dated this twenty-first day of May, 1923.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land, containing 6 acres 2 roods 7 perches,
or thereabouts, being portion of Section 1 of Block IX of the
Taramarama Survey District, and being the land coloured
pink on plan deposited in the office of the Surveyor of the
Gisborne Land District under number 1001 (brown).

556

B. G. SIGNALL, County Clerk.

BOROUGH OF MOUNT ALBERT.

RESOLUTIONS STRIKING SPECIAL RATES.

1922 Drainage Connections Loan.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the
Mount Albert Borough Council, under the above-mentioned
Act, for private drainage connections, as provided by sec-
tion 228 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the said
Mount Albert Borough Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of one-fortieth of a penny in the pound upon the
rateable value of all rateable property of the Mount Albert
Borough, comprising the whole of the Borough of Mount
Albert; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring
rate during the currency of such loan, being a period of seven
years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

1923 Kingsland Overbridge Loan.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £11,000, authorized to be raised by the
Mount Albert Borough Council, under the above-mentioned
Act, for the purpose of the payment to the New Zealand
Railways Department of part of the cost of the construction
of an overhead traffic bridge (and the approaches thereto)
over the Kaipara Railway line at Kingsland, together with
the first year's interest and other charges on such contribution,
the said Mount Albert Borough Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of one-thirteenth of a penny in the pound
upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough
of Mount Albert, comprising the whole of the Borough of
Mount Albert; and that such special rate shall be an annual-
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be pay-
able yearly on the 1st 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.

557

H. UTTING, Town Clerk and Treasurer.

Under the Mining Act, 1908.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Cromwell.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned,
Hugh George Smith Glass, of Pembroke, Hotelkeeper,
hereby applies for a license for a water-race as specified
in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly
marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 9 a.m.,
15/5/23.

Date and number of miner's right: 22/2/23; 13313.

Address for service: Care of A. M. Brodrick, Solicitor,
Cromwell.

Dated at Cromwell this 16th day of May, 1923.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race, and of its starting and terminal
points: Starting at well in Section 34, Block IX, Town of
Pembroke (applicant's freehold), going through said section
and running down the north-west side of Sections 33 and 6,
same block (Crown lands, Post and Telegraph Department),
and terminating at ram-site. Applied for by application
No. 50/23.

Length and intended course of race: 232ft.; north-east
to south-west.

Points of intake: Well in said Section 34.