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Mr. F. E. Graham, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. C. M. Ollivier 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 :—

NEW ZEALAND METROPOLITAN 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 New Zealand Metropolitan 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 2nd 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 situated in the district of Christchurch, and known as the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's 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 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 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 New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 4th day of July, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

F. E. GRAHAM, Chairman.

A. I. RATTRAY, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club are hereby approved this 13th day of July, 1923.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Waipawa County Racing Club at a meeting held on the 5th day of October, 1923, at Waipawa, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. H. M. Rathbone, 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. H. M. Rathbone, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. W. J. Wood 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 :—

WAIPAWA COUNTY 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 Waipawa County 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 31st day of August, 1922, 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 Waipawa, and known as the Waipawa County Racing Club’s 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 Waipawa County Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 5th day of October, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

H. M. RATHBONE, Chairman.

H. C. COLLETT, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Waipawa County Racing Club are hereby approved this 13th day of July, 1923.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOHN HENRY WEAVER, GEORGE BLAKE, and HENRY CHALMERS STEVENSON, carrying on business as Motor-body Builders and Repairers at the corner of Eden Terrace and Flower Streets, Auckland, under the style or firm of “Weaver, Blake, and Stevenson,” has been dissolved as from the date hereof so far as concerns the said George Blake, who retires from the said firm. The business will be continued at the aforesaid address by the said JOHN HENRY WEAVER and HENRY CHALMERS STEVENSON under the style or firm of “Weaver and Stevenson,” and all assets of the late business shall be taken over by the said John Henry Weaver and Henry Chalmers Stevenson, and the liabilities thereof shall be paid by them.

Dated the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

J. H. WEAVER.

H. C. STEVENSON.

Signed by the said John Henry Weaver and Henry Chalmers Stevenson in the presence of—M. Glaister, Solicitor, Auckland.

G. BLAKE.

Signed by the said George Blake in the presence of—C. J. Lovegrove, Solicitor, Auckland.

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