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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

making machinery and the erection of housing for same, the said Eketa-huna County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-twelfth (1/12th) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the County of Eketa-huna, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. B. CARRUTHERS, Chairman.
F. COWLANE, Clerk.

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EKETAHUNA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Eketa-huna County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Eketa-huna County Roadmaking Machinery Loan of £4,515 (1923), authorized to be raised by the Eketa-huna County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of purchasing road-making machinery and the erection of housing for same, the said Council, pursuant to section 22 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, hereby increases to one-tenth (1/10th) of a penny in the pound sterling the special rate of one-twelfth (1/12th) of a penny in the pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the said Council on the 13th day of October, 1923, on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the County of Eketa-huna, such rate of one-twelfth (1/12th) of a penny in the pound sterling being insufficient to provide for payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on such loan; and that such special rate as increased shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. B. CARRUTHERS, Chairman.
F. COWLANE, Clerk.

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DANNEVIRKE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Manawatu Gorge Road and Bridge Act, 1919, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and all other Acts and powers (if any) it in that behalf enabling, the Dannevirke Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Dannevirke Borough Manawatu Gorge No. 2 Loan of £880, 1923, authorized to be raised by the said Council under the above-mentioned Acts for the purpose of providing the amount of this Council’s contribution levied by the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control towards the completion of the construction-work proposed to be carried out by the Board during the years 1923 and 1924, the said Dannevirke Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one twenty-fifth of a penny in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole of the Borough of Dannevirke, and that such special rate shall be an annually-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable 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 a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

A. J. C. RUNCIMAN, Mayor.
CHAS. A. MEARS, Town Clerk.

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MASTERTON 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 Masterton Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of nine hundred and eighty-four pounds three shillings and threepence (£984 3s. 3d.), authorized to be raised by the Masterton Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of providing funds for re-payment of moneys outstanding in respect of the Bannister Street Repayment Loan, the said Masterton Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of six one-hundredths (6/100ths) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the special-rating area (comprising that part of the Borough of Masterton bounded towards the north-east by the right bank of the Waipoua River from the south-east boundary-line of the Akura Block to the east side of Colombo Road; towards the east by the eastern side of the said Colombo Road to the Kuripuni Stream; thence towards the south and south-east by the said Kuripuni Stream to Railway Road; thence towards the north-east generally by a line along the middle-line of the said Railway Road to a point in a line with the southern boundary-line of Section 31, Masterton Small-farm Block; thence by a right line to the south corner of that section; thence north-west by Section 31 aforesaid to the Waipokaka Stream; thence by the Ngaumatawa Block, the Bishops Reserve, and the Akura Block aforesaid to the right bank of the Waipoua River opposite Section 63, Masterton Small-farm Block, the starting-point); and that such special rate shall be an annual recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the twenty-eighth day of the months of February and August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of five (5) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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T. T. DENBEE, Town Clerk.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Wataroa-Waitangi Racing Club at a meeting held on the 3rd day of November, 1923, at Matanui, with a recommendation by the chairman of such club, Mr. T. McBride, 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. T. McBride, the Chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. John Butler 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:—

WATAROA-WAITANGI 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 Wataroa-Waitangi 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 course situated in the district of Matanui, and known as the Wataroa-Waitangi 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 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,