Nov. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3183

HEATHCOTE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.-OPAWA ROAD CHANNELLING LOAN, £700.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and amendments thereto, and with the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council under section 20 of the Finance Act, 1919, the necessary evidence thereof having appeared on page 62 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1925, the Heathcote County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Heathcote County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing interest at five and three-quarter per cent. (5¼ per cent.), and sinking fund at two per cent. (2 per cent.) per annum, and other charges on a loan of £700, authorized to be raised by the Heathcote County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of channelling the Opawa Road, the Heathcote County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-ninth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property in the special-rating area of the Hillsborough Riding of the County of Heathcote comprised within the following boundaries :—

Starting at the point of intersection of the River Heathcote and Lyttelton Railway line, thence along River Heathcote to intersection of Rapaki Road and Hills Road ; thence along Rapaki Road, along south-western boundary of Rural Section 33902; thence in an easterly direction to the south-eastern corner of Rural Section 23559 to the north-western boundary of Rural Section 766; thence in an easterly direction along Rural Section 966; thence along railway-line in a north-westerly direction to the point of commencement in the Hillsborough Riding in the County of Heathcote.

And that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of April and the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 20 years or until the loan is fully paid off.

C. FLAVELL, Chairman.
J. H. McAULIFFE, County Clerk.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between ALBERT HENDERSON, of Te Awamutu, Surgeon, HENRY FREDERICK SAUNDERS, of Hamilton, Agent, ERNEST WILLIAMS McCARTER, of Te Awamutu, Solicitor, VIOLET CAPLEN, of Hawera, Married Woman, WILLIAM BRAMWELL SERPELL, of Matapara, Farmer, and HERBERT SYDNEY JOHN NEWCOMBE, of Matapara, Farmer, carrying on a business as sheep and cattle farmers at Matapara, under the style or firm name of “Saunders, McCarter, and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 30th day of September, 1925, so far as concerns the said A. HENDERSON, V. CAPLEN, and H. S. J. NEWCOMBE, who retire from the said firm. All debts due to and owing by the said old firm will be received and paid respectively by the said HENRY FREDERICK SAUNDERS, ERNEST WILLIAMS McCARTER, and WILLIAM BRAMWELL SERPELL, who will continue to carry on the said business in Partnership under the old firm name.

Dated this 6th day of November, 1925.

ALBERT HENDERSON.
HENRY FREDERICK SAUNDERS.
ERNEST WILLIAMS McCARTER.
VIOLET CAPLEN.
WILLIAM BRAMWELL SERPELL.
HERBERT SYDNEY JOHN NEWCOMBE.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wanganui District.

In the matter of the Building Societies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the SECURITY BUILDING SOCIETY, a society registered under the said Act, and having its office in Wanganui.

PURSUANT to an order of Mr. Justice Ostler issued out of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Wanganui on the 2nd day of November, 1925, notice is hereby given that the creditors of the above-named society are required on or before the 12th day of December, 1925, to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts and claims and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any) to EDWIN MARTELL SILK, of Maria Place, Wanganui, the Official Liquidator of the said society, and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Official Liquidator, are by their solicitors to come in and prove their said debts and claims at the Registrar’s Office in the Supreme Court House at Wanganui on the 20th day of January, 1926, at 10 a.m., or, in default thereof, they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved. Claims not rendered by the date above named may be rejected.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Wairoa Racing Club (Incorporated) at a meeting held on the 9th day of October, 1925, at Wairoa, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. G. C. Ormond, 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. G. C. Ormond, the chairman of such club and the meeting, moved, and Mr. P. H. Summerfield 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 :-

WAIROA RACING CLUB (INCORPORATED).

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 Wairoa 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 racecourse situated in the district of Wairoa, and known as the Te Kupenga 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, 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 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 Wairoa Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 9th day of October, 1925, and signed by the Chairman and secretary.

G. A. ORMOND, Chairman.
LEONARD STOREY, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Wairoa Racing Club are hereby approved this 16th day of October, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.