May 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1571

the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of June 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.

CHAS. MARSACK, Mayor.
R. LEESE, Town Clerk.

575

TAUMARUNUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION INCREASING 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 Taumarunui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £8,000, authorized to be raised by the Taumarunui Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of advancing to ratepayers 75 per cent. of the cost of installing electricity and necessary electric appliances in their premises, the said Council, pursuant to section 22 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, hereby increases to nineteen-twentieths of a penny (19/20d.) in the pound sterling the special rate of eighteen twenty-fifths of a penny (18/25d.) in the pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the said Council on the eighth day of May, 1923, on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Taumarunui, such rate of eighteen twenty-fifths of a penny (18/25d.) in the pound sterling being insufficient to provide for payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on such loan; and that such special rate as increased shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of June 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.

CHAS. MARSACK, Mayor.
R. LEESE, Town Clerk.

576

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us as Dentists under the style of “A. and H. Hoby” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 31st day of March, 1923.
As witness our hands this 16th day of May, 1923.

ARTHUR HOBY.
A. HUBERT HOBY.

577

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Ashburton Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 8th day of May, 1923, at Ashburton, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. H. F. Nicoll, 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. Harry Frederick Nicoll, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. W. C. Brydon 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 :—

ASHBURTON 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 Ashburton Trotting Club, a trotting club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 14th day of March, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the Ashburton Racecourse Reserve 1318, situated in the district of Ashburton, and known as the Ashburton 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 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 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 Ashburton Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 8th day of May, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

H. F. NICOLL, Chairman.
ALFRED A. FOOKS, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Ashburton Trotting Club are hereby approved this 25th day of May, 1923.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

578

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Ashhurst-Pohangina Racing Club at a meeting held on the 14th day of April, 1923, at Ashhurst, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. R. Macdonald, 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. Richard Macdonald, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. Albert Havill 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 :—

ASHHURST-POHANGINA RACING 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 Ashhurst-Pohangina Racing 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 26th day of July, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the racecourse on part Section 463, Block III, Gorge Survey District, situated in the district of Ashhurst, Oroua County, and known as the Ashhurst-Pohangina 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