Aug. 30.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

other powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the
Masterton Racing Club, a racing club within the meaning of
the said Act (hereinafter referred to as "the said club"),
doith hereby revoke the regulations dated the 1st day of
February, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the
following regulations controlling the admission of persons to
that part of the Opaki Racecourse situated in the district of
Masterton, and known as the Opaki 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-
   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 Masterton Racing Club
were made and passed by such club on the 1st day of August,
1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

C. F. VALLANCE, Chairman.
C. V. YATES, Acting-Secretary.
The foregoing regulations of the Masterton Racing Club
are hereby approved this 10th day of August, 1923.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE IN THE NGARUA ROADS
SPECIAL RATING AREA.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the
Piako County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking
fund, and other charges on a loan of £14,000, authorized to
be raised by the Piako County Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for metalling the Waitoa-Matamata Road and
forming and metalling the Diagonal Road in the Ngarua Roads
Special Rating Area, the said Piako County Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of twopence and seven-eighths
of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (upon the
basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the
Ngarua Roads Special Rating Area, comprising all that
area in the Land District of Auckland bounded, commencing
at the north-western corner of Section 1, Block I, Maunga-
kawa Survey District, towards the north-west by the north-
western boundary of such section, by its north-eastern bound-
ary to a point opposite the south-eastern boundary of Sec-
tion 40, Block XVI, Waitoa Survey District, by the crossing
of a road, and by such south-eastern boundary; thence by
a line being the north-eastern boundary of this section pro-
duced to the north-western boundary of Lot 3, Section 36,
of the same block, and by such last-mentioned boundary to
the Waihekau Stream; towards the north-east by the Wai-
hékau Stream to a point in a direct line between the south-
western corner of Section 6, Block IV, Maungakawa Survey
District, and the south-eastern corner of the block Wai-
hékau No. 2 (L.T. 572), and by such direct line to the said
last-mentioned corner; thence by a road-line to the north-
eastern boundary of Section 8A, Block VIII, Maungakawa
Survey District, and by a crossing of the road and the north-
eastern boundaries of Section 8, and by the end of a road
and north-eastern boundary of Section 7, Block VIII, Maunga-
kawa Survey District, and south-eastern boundary of the
piece of land L.T. 3961A to the southern boundary of the
Orongomairoa Block, and by such southern boundary to the
Piranui Stream, and by that stream to the southern boundary
of Lot 3 of the Hungahunga Subdivision plan 7060, which
along to the eastern boundary of Lot 5 of the Hungahunga
Subdivision plan 2841, and by such eastern boundary to-
wards the south and south-east by the like boundaries of the
said last-mentioned Lot 5 and of Lot 1 on plan 5068, and of
Section 2, Block VIII, Maungakawa Survey District, to the
Waitoa River, and towards the west by such river to the place
of commencement.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly
on the first day of July in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-
half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

NEVILL J. RAY, County Clerk.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
existing between us, the undersigned, as Farmers at
Knapdale has been dissolved by mutual consent as from
this date. The business will be carried on by the under-
signed ALBERT EDWARD WHITELEY, who will pay all the
debts and liabilities of the Partnership.
Dated at Gore this 18th day of August, 1923.
H. O. GIBSON.
A. E. WHITELEY.
Witness to both signatures—E. C. Smith, Solicitor, Gore.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.
(Resolution dated 17th August, 1923.)

NICHOLAS C. EDWARDS (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above-
named company are required on or before the 3rd
September, 1923, to send their names and postal addresses
and particulars of their claims to the undersigned, the
Liquidator of the said company, at the registered office of
the company, Customs Street West, Auckland, and if so
required by notice in writing from the said Liquidators are
to come in and prove their claims at such time and place as
shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they
will be excluded from the benefits of any distributions made
before such claims are proved.

Dated at Auckland this 20th day of August, 1923.
H. E. SIMMONDS, Liquidator.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Northern District.

In the matter of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational
Trusts Act, 1908; and in the matter of a scheme for
the disposition of the Ohinemuri Hospital Institution
Fund.

NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme under the pro-
visions of the above Act for the disposition of the
above-mentioned fund, together with the report upon the
said scheme by the Honourable the Solicitor-General of New
Zealand, has been filed in the office of the Registrar in the
Supreme Court of Auckland by the trustees of the said fund,
and that the scheme and the report thereon will be laid
before His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer, a Judge of the said
Court, for his consideration; and, further, that the said
scheme and report are open for inspection by the public
(free of charge) at the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Auckland; and, further, that on Tuesday, the
2nd day of October, 1923, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or
so soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, His Honour
Mr. Justice Stringer will hear and determine all matters
relating to the said scheme, and make such order thereon
as he shall think fit.

Dated at Paeroa this twenty-fourth day of August, 1923.
E. W. PORRITT,
Solicitor for the Trustees of the Ohinemuri
Hospital Institution Fund.