FEB. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month of the issue of the New Zealand Gazette containing this notice.

13311. HENRY JAMES CHESMAR.—Part of Rural Sections 1027 and 1354, Block XIII, Christchurch Survey District, and Blocks I and II, Halswell Survey District. Occupied by applicant.

13312. FREDERICK ERNEST DODGE.—Part of Rural Section 206, Lot 1, deposit plan No. 7277, corner Bealey Avenue and Stoneyhurst Street, City of Christchurch. Occupied by applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 23rd day of February, 1925, at the Land Registry Office, Christchurch.

F. W. BROUGHTON, District Land Registrar.

APPLICA TION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional certificate of title, Vol. 241, folio 215, for part Lot 37, deposit plan 2120, part of Rural Section 80, Block XI, Christchurch Survey District, whereof ELEANOR STRINGER, of Christchurch, Married Woman, is the registered proprietor, and evidence having been furnished of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that it is my intention to issue such provisional certificate of title at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated at the Land Registry Office, Christchurch, this 23rd day of February, 1925.

F. W. BROUGHTON, District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of sections 266 and 267 of the above Act, that the name of the under-mentioned company will, at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved:

R. D. Barford and Company (Limited). 1914/5.

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies at New Plymouth, this 16th day of February, 1925.

A. L. B. ROSS,

Assistant Registrar of Companies.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Invercargill Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 16th day of December, 1924, at Invercargill, with a recommendation by the chairman of such club, Mr. J. B. Thomson, 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. J. B. Thomson, the chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. T. A. Henry 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:

INVERCARGILL 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 Inver- cargill Trotting Club, a trotting club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to us “the said club”), doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the racecourse situate in the district of Invercargill, and known as the Southland 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.

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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 Invercargill Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 16th day of December, 1924, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

J. B. THOMSON, Chairman.

R. B. CAWS, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Invercargill Trotting Club are hereby approved this 11th day of February, 1925.

215 CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Counties Act, 1920, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Hutt County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the Hutt County Council under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of constructing roads, and all works incidental thereto, on the western or seaward side of the railway-line, Township Pukerua, being Number 21 Special-rating District, Horokiwi Riding, County of Hutt, the said Hutt County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1d. and ½d. (1½d.) in the £1 (pound), upon a capital value of all rateable property in the Number 21 Special-rating District : and such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and to be payable yearly on the 1st day of April 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.”

216 A. J. MACPHERSON, County Clerk.

WAITOMO ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers of the Waitomo Electric-power Board District, taken on the 6th day of February, 1925, on the proposal of the Waitomo Electric-power Board to borrow the sum of £70,000 (seventy thousand pounds) for the purpose of distributing electrical energy in the Waitomo Electric-power Board District and for the carrying-out of such other works, undertakings, and purposes as are authorized by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and amendments thereto, including engineering expenses and the purchase of all necessary materials, goods, and equipment, plant and land, as set out fully in the issues of the King Country Chronicle of the 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th January, 1925,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was, 271 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 35.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

W. A. LEE, Chairman.

Dated this 18th day of February, 1925. 217