Town Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for forming, metalling, bitumen-sealing, kerbing, channelling, and draining of storm-water on roads, the Ellerslie Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of threepence three-farthings in the pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Town District of Ellerslie; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable annually on the 30th day of June 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..

JOHN WM. CARR, Town Clerk.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution of the EDWIN GRIFFEN RUBBER COMPANY (LIMITED) was made and entered in the minute-book of the company on the fourth day of July, 1923.

“Resolved, That the affairs of the company be wound up; and that PETER MACARTHUR CAMERON, of Wellington, Public Accountant, be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.”

A. M. EDWIN.
W. D. GRIFFIN.
P. M. CAMERON, Liquidator.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club at a meeting held on the 8th day of December, 1922, at Tauranga, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. J. G. Green, of Tauranga, 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. J. G. Green, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. M. Quirk 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:

BAY OF PLENTY JOCKEY 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 Bay of Plenty Jockey 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 7th day of January, 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 Tauranga, and known as the Gate Pa 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 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 Bay of Plenty Jockey Club were made and passed by such club on the 13th day of June, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

J. GEORGE GREEN, Chairman.
H. E. VOKES, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club are hereby approved this 23rd day of June, 1923.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of SIMPSON'S HARNESS (LIMITED).

EXTRAORDINARY resolution passed at a general meeting of shareholders held on 23rd June, 1923:

“That it has been proved to its satisfaction that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that the company be wound up voluntarily.”

It was further resolved that Mr. R. S. CUTFIELD, Public Accountant, Safe Deposit Buildings, High Street, Auckland, be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the company.

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