balance-sheet. (3.) That we have obtained all the information and explanations we have required. (4.) That the manager has certified that all the requirements of the Savings-banks Act, 1908, and amendments have been complied with, with the exception of section 18 (subsection 1) and section 20.

CUTHBERTSON & WEBB, F.P.A. (N.Z.), \
CHAS. E. HANNAH, A.P.A. (N.Z.), \
Auditors.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Banks Peninsula Racing Club at a meeting held on the 17th day of June, 1925, at Christchurch, with a recommendation by the chairman of such club, Mr. R. M. Morten, 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. R. M. Morten, the chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. J. F. Buchanan 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:

BANKS PENINSULA 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 Banks Peninsula 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 Christchurch Racecourse situated in the district of Christchurch, and known as the Riccarton 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, 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 Banks Peninsula Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 17th day of June, 1925, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

R. M. MORTEN, Chairman.
JOSEPH WALLACE, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Banks Peninsula Racing Club are hereby approved this 19th day of June, 1925.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, ARTHUR BRABAZON ELLIS and ERNEST JOSLIN HALL, Registered Architects, are dissolving partnership, by mutual consent, the said ERNEST JOSLIN HALL retiring from the firm, as from 31st July, 1925.

The business of the firm will be carried on henceforth by Mr. A. B. ELLIS, to whom all accounts should be paid.

ARTHUR BRABAZON ELLIS.
ERNEST JOSLIN HALL.
Australasian Chambers, 158 Cashel Street, Christchurch.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between GEORGE ROBERTSON McGREGOR, of Geraldine, Garage-proprietor, and CHARLES CLEMENT BENNETT, of Geraldine, Garage-proprietor, under the style or firm of "McGregor and Bennett," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 29th day of June, 1925. The said CHARLES CLEMENT BENNETT will pay and discharge all outstanding debts and liabilities of the old firm, and shall be entitled to receive all moneys and debts payable to the old firm.

Dated this 29th day of June, 1925.

GEO. R. Mcgregor.
CHARLES CLEMENT BENNETT.

Witness to the signatures of George Robertson McGregor and Charles Clement Bennett-A. P. Barklie, Solicitor, Geraldine.

THAMES 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 Thames Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £12,000, authorized to be raised by the Thames Borough Council under the abovementioned Act, for the purpose of providing its contribution to the cost of constructing a bridge over the Waihou River at Kopu with approaches thereto (such works to be known at the Kopu Bridge), the said Thames Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of four-fifths of one penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all the rateable property of the Borough of Thames, comprising the whole of the Borough of Thames; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly in the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years or until the loan is fully off.

A. CHAPMAN, Town Clerk.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, CECIL DAVID MEADOWCROFT, M.B., Ch.B. (N.Z.), 1925, now residing in Wellington, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 1st August 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 Department of Health at Wellington.

CECIL DAVID MEADOWCROFT,
7 Mount Street.

Dated at Wellington, 1st July, 1925.

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