JAN. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (3).

I T having been reported to me that the undermentioned company has ceased to carry on business, I hereby give notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof the name of such company will, unless cause be shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved :-
Joseph Hamlet and Company (Limited). 1920/56.
Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies at Christchurch this 12th January, 1923.
J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 266, subsection (4), of the above Act, that the under- mentioned company has been struck off the Register for the district of Southland:-
1913/14. Quin and Party (Limited).
Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies at Invercargill this 9th day of January, 1923.
J. A. FRASER,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that THE DAYTON MONEY- WEIGHT SCALE COMPANY (LIMITED), a company incorporated in New South Wales, proposes to carry on business throughout New Zealand, and that the office or place of business of the company is situated in Safe Deposit Buildings, High Street, Auckland.
Dated this seventh day of December, 1922.
I. J. OSMOND E. N. CAVAYE
(OSMOND AND CAVAYE), Attorneys for the Company.

THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).

HEAD OFFICE : HOLBORN BARS, LONDON, E.C.

In the matter of section 302 of the Companies Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Prudential Assurance Company (Limited) is about to commence and carry on fire-insurance business at No. 21 Swanson Street in the City of Auckland, and at such office and address legal process of any kind may be served upon the said company or notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered to the said company.
Dated this 20th day of December, 1922.
WILLIAM A. HORNE,
Attorney for New Zealand for the Prudential Assurance Company (Limited).
Witness-W. R. Fee, Solicitor, Auckland.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commercial Bank of Australia (Limited) proposes to commence to carry on business at Ohaupo, Hamilton.
Dated this 28th day of December, 1922.
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED), By its Attorney, E. P. YALDWYN.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between HAROLD LEE and HERBERT FRANCIS CROCKETT as Boot-manufacturers at No. 24 Hall of Commerce, High Street, Auckland, stands dissolved as from the 28th day of November, 1922, and that the business will henceforth be carried on by the said HERBERT FRANCIS CROCKETT, who will receive all moneys due to and discharge all liabilities of the said Partnership.
H. LEE.
Witness to signature of the said Harold Lee—R. G. Sellar, Solicitor, Auckland.
H. CROCKETT.
Witness to signature of the said Herbert Francis Crockett— W. Lind Mitchell, Solicitor, Auckland.

OSTEND ROAD BOARD.

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

P URSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Ostend Road District taken on the twentieth day of December, 1922, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said district be on the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 29, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 50.
I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.
Dated this 21st day of December, 1922.
H. T. GARRATT,
Chairman, Ostend Road Board.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Egmont Racing Club (Incorporated) at a meeting held on the 14th day of December, 1922, at Hawera, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. John Gray, 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. John Gray, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. Robert Hicks 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:-
EGMONT RACING CLUB (INCORPORATED).
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 Egmont Racing Club (Incorporated), a racing club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 3rd day of April, 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 Hawera, and known as the Hawera 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 Egmont Racing Club (Incorporated) were made and passed by such club on the