Aug. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2221

OTOROHANGA TOWN BOARD.

In the matter of the Town Boards Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Otorohanga Town Board proposes, under provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute certain public works—namely, the acquisition of land and the construction of a gravel-pit; and for the purposes of the said public works the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is hereby further given that a plan of the said land required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the Board situated in Maniapoto Street, Otorohanga, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public works or by the taking of the said parcel of land, who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public works or to the taking of the said parcel of land, must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Clerk of the Board at the said office.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of land: 9 acres 2 roods, being portion of the block called Otorohanga Q Number 2, situated in Block IV of the Orahiri Survey District; coloured red on plan 21322.

Dated at Otorohanga this first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

830 C. TUCKER, Town Clerk.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Cambridge Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 11th day of June, 1923, at Cambridge, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. J. P. Robinson, 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. P. Robinson, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. F. Lye, M.P., 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:—

CAMBRIDGE 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 Cambridge Trotting Club, a trotting 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 A. and P. Association’s Show-ground situated in the district of Cambridge, and known as the Cambridge 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 Cambridge Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 11th day of June, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

J. P. ROBINSON, Chairman.

H. W. SMALES, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Cambridge Trotting Club are hereby approved this 26th day of July, 1923.

832 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned FRANCIS JAMES PATTEN and JAMES LATHAM PATTEN, carrying on business as Carriers at Wellington, Levin, and Petone under the style or firm of “F. and J. Patten,” will be dissolved by mutual consent as from the 21st day of August, 1923; and all debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said FRANCIS JAMES PATTEN, who will continue to carry on the said business in his own name.

Dated this 15th day of August, 1923.

833 F. J. PATTEN.

J. L. PATTEN.

VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the sum of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Vincent County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purchase and construction of irrigation works and water-supply for the special rating area described in the Schedule hereto, has been found insufficient to complete the undertaking in respect of which it was raised: Now, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Vincent County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a further loan of £500, authorized to be raised by the Vincent County Council, under section 18 of the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of completing part of the irrigation and water-supply works for the said special rating area, the said Vincent County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of six-tenths pence (6/10d.) in the pound (which rate shall be regarded as part of the special rate made and levied in respect of the original loan of £5,000) upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the said special rating area; and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 15th day of October 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that area of land situate in the Land District of Otago, being the Township of Bannockburn, part of Cromwell and Bannockburn Survey Districts, in the Carrick Riding of the County of Vincent, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point being the south-eastern corner of Section 7, Block IV, Bannockburn District; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern boundaries of Sections 7, 6, 4, and 2, Block IV, Bannockburn District, bounded towards the east by parts of Runs 339 and 330B; thence by a line running in a north-westerly direction to the south-east corner of Section 1, Block IV, Bannockburn District; thence in a south-westerly direction to the south-west corner of Section 1, Block IV, Bannockburn District; thence in a north-westerly direction to the north-west corner of the said Section 1, Block IV, Bannockburn District; thence in a north-easterly direction along the north-western boundary of said Section 1, Block IV, Bannockburn District, to Shepherd’s Creek; thence in a northerly direction along the said creek to the block-line between Block 1, Cromwell District, and Block 1, Bannockburn District; thence in a westerly direction along the said block-line to the Bannockburn–Cromwell Road; thence in a north-easterly direction following the west side of the said Bannockburn–Cromwell Road to the Kawarau River; thence along the southern bank of the Kawarau River in a north-westerly direction to Long Gully Creek; thence in a south-westerly direction along the said Long Gully Creek, a distance of 115 chains, more or less, to the intake of Water-race (Lynn’s) Number 1842; thence in an easterly direction along the said water-race to the north-western boundary of Run 330A; thence in a north-easterly direction to the most northern