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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

for the purchase of plant for and the equipment of the borough quarry and the purchase of a grader and motor-lorry, the said Otahuhu Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-third of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the rating district, comprising the whole of the Borough of Otahuhu; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 30th day of November 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.

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R. B. TODD, Mayor.

THE FARMERS’ UNION ADVOCATE (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at the Dominion Farmers’ Institute, Featherston Street, Wellington (Board Room, First Floor), on Thursday, the thirteenth day of December, 1923, at 4.30 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted, and the property of the company disposed of, and hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of November, 1923.

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D. McKAY, Liquidator.

DOMINION PORCELAIN AND TILE INDUSTRIES (LIMITED).

(IN LIQUIDATION.)

THAT it is desirable to reconstruct the company, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily, and that CAYGILL, NEWBURGH, AND CO., Public Accountants, be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up.

The above resolution was carried at a meeting held on the 19th day of October, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 7th day of November.

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CARGILL, NEWBURGH, AND CO., Liquidators.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Wairau Valley Hack Racing Club at a meeting held on the 8th day of November, 1923, at Wairau Valley, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. Bert Green, 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. Bert Green, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. D. McRae 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:—

WAIRAU VALLEY HACK 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 Wairau Valley Hack 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 racecourse situated in the district of Marlborough, and known as the Wairau Valley 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 Wairau Valley Hack Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 8th day of November, 1923, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

BERT GREEN, Chairman.
J. W. BROWN, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Wairau Valley Hack Racing Club are hereby approved this 12th day of November, 1923.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

GLEN EDEN TOWN BOARD.

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Glen Eden Town District was taken on the 13th day of October, 1923, on the proposal of over 25 per cent. of the ratepayers of Glen Eden Town District to adopt rating on the basis of unimproved value.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 120; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 60.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 27th day of October, 1923.

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W. H. SHEPHERD, Chairman.

WAIA PU COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waipu County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the erection of workers’ dwellings—and for the purpose of such work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken.

Notice is further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public offices of the Clerk to the said Council at Waipiro Bay, and is open for inspection by all persons during ordinary office hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands, who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of such public work or to the taking of such lands, must state their objections in writing and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of the notice, to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers at Waipiro Bay.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of land required to be taken: 17 acres 3 roods 32 perches.

Being portion of Tikitiki, Block V; edged on plan, pink; shown on plan 1195 (brown).

Situated in the Waipu Survey District, County of Waipu.

Dated at Waipiro Bay this 14th day of November, 1923.

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A. L. TEMPLE, County Clerk.