Feb. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 613

Horotiu Sports 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 8th day of February, 1924, 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 Raglan, and known as the Ngaruawahia 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 Horotiu Sports Club were made and passed by such club on the 8th day of February, 1924, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

W. WRIGHT, Chairman.
H. B. GRAHAM, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Horotiu Sports Club are hereby approved this 15th day of February, 1924.

249 JELLICOE, Governor-General.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Muir’s Gold Reefs (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: As private company, 16th August, 1917; public company, 14th May, 1920.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Muir’s Reefs, Te Puke; Sidney L. Smith.
Nominal capital: £40,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £40,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £40,000.
Paid up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 40,000.
Number of shares allotted: 40,000.
Amount paid per share: One pound sterling.
Amount called up per share: One pound sterling.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: Nil.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: Private company, 10; public company, 12.
Present number of shareholders: 116.
Number of men employed by company: 136 (average for the year).
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Gold, 16,177·033 oz., £73,682 16s. 5d.; silver, 7,416·495 oz., £1,042 17s. 6d.

Total produced since registration: £162,338 10s. 10d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £71,084 18s. 3d.
Total expenditure since registration: £274,291 12s. 11d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: £7 17s.
Amount of debts directly due to company: £3,683 9s. 6d.
Amount of debts considered good: The whole amount.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company: £5,000, N.Z. Government subsidy (£1 for £1 basis) repayable from future profits from milling-ore developed by the shaft at present being sunk.
Amount of debts owing by company: Ordinary creditors, £21,003 12s. 10d.; directors’ fees voted, not paid, £3,953 8s. 6d.; loans by shareholders, £24,344 3s. 6d.; N.Z. Government loan, £10,650; Bank of New Zealand, overdraft, £8,768 5s. 1d.; bills payable, £2,320 10s. 6d.; wages accrued, £40 15s. 11d.: total, £71,080 16s. 4d.

I, Sidney L. Smith, of Muir’s Reefs, Te Puke, the Secretary of Muir’s Gold Reefs (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as at the 31st December, 1923; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SIDNEY L. SMITH.

Declared at Muir’s Reefs, Te Puke, this 20th day of February, 1924, before me—Jas. R. Noble, J.P. 250

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, JAMES DEWAR HUNTER, Bachelor of Medicine and of Surgery, now residing in Dunedin, hereby give notice that I intend applying, on the 20th March next, to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Dunedin.

JAMES DEWAR HUNTER.

Dated at Dunedin, 21st February, 1924. 251

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, section 39 of the Finance Act, 1921–22, and by and with the consent of the Governor-General in Council, the Hauraki Plains County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two thousand pounds (£2,000) authorized to be raised by the Hauraki Plains County Council under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of discharging an existing liability of £2,000 for the purchase of land at Hikutaiā for quarry purposes, the said Hauraki Plains County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-thirtieth of a penny (1/30d.) in the pound (£1) upon the rateable value (unimproved) of all rateable property of the special-rating area comprising the whole of the County of Hauraki Plains; 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 July 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; to Ernest Walton, County Treasurer, at the County Office, Ngatea.

JAMES C. MILLER, County Chairman.
ERNEST WALTON, County Clerk.

252

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

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 Hauraki Plains County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £7,750 authorized to be raised by the Hauraki Plains County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the construction of bitumen roads in the Turua District Roads Loan Special-rating Area, the said Hauraki Plains County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of fivepence (5d.) in the pound (£1) upon the rateable