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all other 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 Cambridge Trotting 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 11th day of June, 1923, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the Cambridge Trotting Club’s course, situated in the district of Cambridge, and known as the Cambridge Trotting Club’s 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 Cambridge Trotting Club were made and passed by such club on the 4th day of April, 1927, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

RICHARD HANNON, Chairman.
WALTER STOPFORD, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Cambridge Trotting Club are hereby approved, this 7th day of April, 1927.

390 CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED) proposes to commence to carry on business at 145 Palmerston Street, Westport, and at Granity, in the Provincial District of Nelson.

Dated at Wellington, New Zealand, this 12th day of April, 1927.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED).
By its Attorney—E. P. YALDWYN.
Witness—R. W. Armit, J.P.

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RE PRIME BOURGEOIS, LTD.

IN LIQUIDATION.

PLEASE take notice that the affairs of the above company having been fully wound up, a general meeting of shareholders in the company will be held at the office of Messrs. Sainsbury, Logan, and Williams, Solicitors, Tennyson Street, Napier, on Thursday, the 28th instant, at 2.30 p.m., for the purpose of laying the final statement and accounts before the meeting and reporting on the liquidation.

SAINSBURY, LOGAN, AND WILLIAMS,
Solicitors for Liquidators.

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WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Waitomo County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and other charges on the Pukerimu Loan of £300, authorized to be raised by the Waitomo County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of forming, widening, culverting, and metalling with rhyolite a portion of the Pukerimu Road, the said Council, pursuant to section 23 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, hereby increases to eleven-sixteenths of a penny in the pound sterling the special rate of nine-sixteenths of a penny in the pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the said Council on the 13th day of February, 1925 (and gazetted on page 127 of the New Zealand Gazette of 13th January, 1927), on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Pukerimu Special-rating Area, such rate of nine-sixteenths of a penny in the pound sterling being insufficient to provide for payment of interest 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 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.

ROBT. WERE, Chairman.
F. CHAS. PERRY, County Clerk.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company : Scandinavian Water-race Company (Limited).

When formed and date of registration : 10th December, 1907 (date of construction).

Whether in active operation or not : In active operation.

Where business is conducted and name of Secretary : Dunedin ; J. T. Hamann, Fire Brigade Buildings, Cumberland Street.

Nominal capital : £18,000.

Amount of capital subscribed : £7.

Amount of capital actually paid in cash : £7.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and the amount of cash received for the same : Nil.

Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid : £9,750 issued to shareholders of the Scandinavian Water-race Company (Registered).

Number of shares into which capital is divided : 18,000.

Number of shares allotted : 9,757.

Amount paid up per share : £1.

Amount called up per share : Nil, except on 7 (shares subscribed for in memorandum of association).

Number and amount of calls in arrear : Nil.

Number of shares forfeited : 501.

Number of forfeited shares sold, and the money received for same : 501 ; realized £149 3s. 9d.

Number of shareholders at the time of registration of company : 18.

Present number of shareholders : 20.

Number of men employed by company : 7.

Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year : 466 oz. 14 dwt. 14 gr. ; £1,857 1s. 9d.

Total quantity and value of gold produced since registration : 11,107 oz. 8 dwt. 4 gr. ; £43,870 8s. 6d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement : £2,436 7s. 11d.

Total expenditure since registration : £47,360 2s.

Total amount of dividends declared : Nil.

Total amount of dividends paid : Nil.

Amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.

Amount of cash in bank : £69 13s. 9d.

Amount of cash in hand : Nil.

Amount of debts directly due to company : £1,000.

Amount of debts considered good : £1,000.

Amount of debts owing by company : £1,624 2s. 8d.

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I, John Thomas Hamann, of Dunedin, Secretary of the Scandinavian Water-race Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at 31st December, 1926 ; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

J. T. HAMANN.

Declared at Dunedin this 6th day of April, 1927, before me—
John Wilson, J.P.

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