Nov. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2913

consumers as provided for under section 90 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and amendments thereto,—

the said Dannevirke Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and one-thirtieth of a penny (1 1/30d.) in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Dannevirke Electric-power District, comprising the whole of the Dannevirke Electric-power District as defined in the Proclamation proclaiming the said district appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th day of August, 1921; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty (40) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

E. A. RANSOM.
H. M. S. QUIGLEY.

1157

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Kaikoura Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 18th day of October, 1922, at Kaikoura, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. A. J. O’Malley, 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. J. O’Malley, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. A. B. Clark 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:—

KAIKOURA 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 Kaikoura 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 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 South Bay Racecourse situated in the district of Kaikoura, and known as the South Bay 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, 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 Kaikoura Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 18th day of October, 1922, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

A. J. O’MALLEY, Chairman.
R. T. POPE, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Kaikoura Trotting Club are hereby approved this 17th day of October, 1923.

1158 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

STRATFORD BOROUGH 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 Stratford Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of one thousand five hundred pounds (£1,500), to be called “The Stratford Borough Council Town Clock Loan of £1,500, 1923,” authorized to be raised by the Stratford Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of providing a town clock as an approved war memorial, as defined by subsection (2) of section 15 of the Finance Act, 1919, and erecting the same in the post-office in the Borough of Stratford, the provision and erection of the same by the Stratford Borough Council as aforesaid having been approved by the Governor-General in Council under said section 15 of such last-mentioned Act, the said Stratford Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of nine sixty-fourths of a penny (9/64d.) in the pound (£1) on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Stratford, comprising the whole of the Borough of Stratford; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of June and the first day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years from the first day of December, 1923, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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

1159 PHILIP SKOGLUND, Town Clerk.

HOKIANGA 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 Hokianga County Council hereby makes and levies by way of special order as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £6,000 authorized to be raised by the Hokianga County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of completing the roads and culverts in the Taheke Riding of the Hokianga County, the said Hokianga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2½d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Taheke Riding of the County of Hokianga; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of April and the first day of September 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.

1160 L. BUISSON, County Clerk.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

I, GEORGE HOWE FORBES, of Seatoun, in the City of Wellington, Draper, now or lately called George Howe Hall, hereby give notice that by deed poll bearing date the 19th day of November, 1923, and enrolled in the Supreme Court Office, at Wellington, on the 26th day of November, 1923, I have assumed, taken, and adopted in the place and stead of the surname of “Hall” the surname of “Forbes” as my only surname.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of November, 1923.

1161 GEORGE HOWE FORBES.