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(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 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 Opunake Racing Club (Incorporated) were made and passed by such club on the 20th day of December, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

E. S. FORSYTH, Chairman.
P. S. RILEY, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Opunake Racing Club are hereby approved this 13th day of January, 1923.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Taranaki Jockey Club at a meeting held on the 20th day of December, 1922, at New Plymouth, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. Leslie Adams Nolan, 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. Leslie Adams Nolan, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. Newton King 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:—

TARANAKI 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 Taranaki 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 28th 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 Taranaki, and known as the New Plymouth 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 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 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 Taranaki Jockey Club were made and passed by such club on the 20th day of December, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

L. A. NOLAN, Chairman.
E. P. WEBSTER, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Taranaki Jockey Club are hereby approved this 13th day of January, 1923.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

TAURANGA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RATE ON HAIRINI BRIDGE LOAN, £2,000.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £2,000, authorized to be raised by the Tauranga Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for paying its proportion of rebuilding th· Hairini Bridge, the said Tauranga Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Tauranga, comprising the whole of the Borough of Tauranga; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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R. B. SHEARMAN, Town Clerk.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,600, authorized to be raised by the Waipa County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying the contribution towards the cost of the construction of a bridge over the Waipa River at Whatawhata, ordered to be paid by the Waipa County Council by Warrant of His Excellency the Governor-General dated the 6th day of February, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 9th February, 1922, at page 442, the Waipa County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one two-hundredth part of a penny in the pound on the rateable value of all rateable property in the County of Waipa; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable on the 1st day of August 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.

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CHAS. BOWDEN, County Clerk.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,300, authorized to be raised by the