JULY 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2069

Mr. Richard William Kirk, the Chairman of such club and
the meeting, moved, and Mr. James Reilly 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 :-

TAKAKA RACING 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
Takaka Racing Club, a racing club within the meaning of
the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”),
doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the
admission of persons to that part of the ground situated in
the district of Takaka, and known as the Rototai 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 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 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 Takaka Racing Club were
made and passed by such club on the 21st day of June, 1923,
and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

RICHARD WILLIAM KIRK, Chairman.
CLAUDE PAGE REILLY, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Takaka Racing Club are
hereby approved this 29th day of June, 1923.

745 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

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THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that a new
company has been formed and incorporated in New
Zealand under the name of “J. C. WILLIAMSON (NEW ZEALAND)
LIMITED (having its registered office at the Grand Opera
House, Manners Street, Wellington), with the object (inter
alia) of acquiring and carrying on in New Zealand the business
and properties of J. C. Williamson Limited (the company
incorporated under that name in Australia), so far as the
same relate to New Zealand.

In consequence thereof, notice, pursuant to section 307 of
the Companies Act, 1908, is hereby given that J. C. Williamson
Limited, a company incorporated in New South Wales in
Australia, carrying on business in Australia and New Zealand
and having its registered office in the City of Sydney, intends
voluntarily to cease to carry on business in New Zealand on
and from the 20th day of October, 1923.

Dated at Wellington this sixteenth day of July, 1923.

BERT ROYLE,
Attorney for J. C. Williamson Limited.

746

BOROUGH OF ONEHUNGA.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of sixteen hundred pounds, authorized to
be raised by the Onehunga Borough Council, under the
above-mentioned Act, for the drainage of the Hardington
Estate Special Rating Area, the said Onehunga Borough
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2¾d. in the
pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in
the Hardington Estate Special Rating Area, comprising all
that area of the Borough of Onehunga, Otahuhu Survey
District, comprising Sections 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, and
77 in Beresford Park, and Small Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9, and 33 to 90 inclusive, in Hardington Estate; and
bounded by a line commencing at a point in the N.W. corner
of Lot 70 in Beresford Park, and running thence in an easterly
direction along the southern side of Tawa Road to the N.E.
corner of Lot 77, Beresford Park; thence in a southerly
direction along the western side of Cameron Street to the
S.E. corner of Lot 90, Hardington Estate; thence across
Hardington Street to the N.E. corner of Lot 33 in the said
Hardington Estate; thence along the western side of Cameron
Street to the S.E. corner of Lot 9, Hardington Estate, at
Mount Smart Road; thence along the northern side of
Mount Smart Road to the S.W. corner of Lot 1, Hardington
Estate, at Queen Street; thence along the eastern side of
Queen Street to the N.W. corner of Lot 1, Hardington Estate,
at Hardington Street; thence across Hardington Street to
the S.W. corner of Lot 40, Hardington Estate; thence along
the eastern side of Queen Street to the N.W. corner of Lot 70
in Beresford Park at Tawa Road, the point of commencement.
And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on
the first day of December 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.

747 J. E. COWELL, Mayor.

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RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members
of the North Canterbury and Oxford Jockey Club at a
meeting held on the 29th day of June, 1923, at Rangiora,
with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr.
Geo. Cudby, 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. Geo. Cudby, the Chairman of such club and the
meeting, moved, and Mr. Felix Johns 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 :—

NORTH CANTERBURY AND OXFORD JOCKEY 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
North Canterbury and Oxford 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 6th day of September, 1922, and in lieu thereof doth
hereby make the following regulations controlling the admis-
sion of persons to that part of the racecourse situated in the
district of Rangiora, and known as the North Canterbury and
Oxford 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
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-