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such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

937 CHARLES BOWDEN, County Clerk.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Otahuhu Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 23rd day of August, 1923, at Auckland, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. H. R. MacKenzie, that the same be passed at once with a view of their approval by His Excellency the Governor-General in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33.

Mr. E. V. Sutherland, acting Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. J. C. Gleeson 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 :—

OTAHUHU 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 authoritis it enabling in that behalf, the Otahuhu 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 7th day of February, 1919, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the ground, Alexandra Park, situated in the district of Epsom, and known as the Alexandra Park Racecourse, while the said racecourse issued 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 Otahuhu Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 23rd day of August, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

H. R. MacKENZIE, Chairman.

R. L. ABSOLUM, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Otahuhu Trotting Club are hereby approved this 12th day of September, 1923.

938 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Houhora Racing Club at a meeting held on the 25th day of August, 1923, at Houhora, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. A. W. Blucher, of Houhora, 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. A. W. Blucher, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. John Subritzky 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 :—

HOUHORA 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 Houhora 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 Houhora Racecourse, situated in the district of Houhora, and known as the Houhora 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 Houhora Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 25th day of August, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

A. W. BLUCHER, Chairman.

H. W. EVANS, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Houhora Racing Club are hereby approved this 3rd day of September, 1923.

939 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

NOTICE is hereby given that Stanley MacPherson, of Timaru, formerly known as Stanley Williams, being a British subject, has by a deed poll dated the thirtieth day of August, 1923, and enrolled at the Supreme Court at Christchurch, renounced and abandoned the surname of Williams, and intends upon all occasions hereafter and in all deeds, documents, actions, proceedings, matters, and things to use the surname of MACPHERSON in lieu of his former name of Williams.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1923.

940 STANLEY MACPHERSON.