Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3531

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of TAXI-METERS PROPRIETARY, LIMITED, a company incorporated outside New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given that the TAXI-METERS PROPRIETARY, LIMITED, a company duly incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1915, of the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, and having its registered office in that State at 59 William Street, Melbourne, intends to carry on business in New Zealand, and that the office or place of business for the carrying on of such business as aforesaid and where legal process may be served and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered is situated at 36–38 National Bank Buildings, Fort Street, Auckland.

Dated at Auckland, this 27th day of October, 1927.

TAXI-METERS PROPRIETARY, LIMITED,
By its attorney in New Zealand—
F. W. McCORMICK.
Stanton, Johnstone, and Spence, Solicitors to the company, Auckland.
896

C. C. WAKEFIELD AND COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the Companies Act, 1908, that the office or place of business of the above-named company is situated at No. 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch.

Dated at Christchurch, this 5th day of November, 1927.

W. INGLE,
Attorney for the South Island.
924

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that ATLANTIC UNION OIL COMPANY, LIMITED, incorporated in New South Wales, intends to commence business in New Zealand. The situation and locality of its office or place of business at which legal process may be served or notices delivered is at the corner of Panama and Featherston Streets, in the City of Wellington.

Dated this 9th day of November, 1927.

J. D. JACOBS, Director.
Bell, Gully, Mackenzie, and O’Leary,
Solicitors.
933

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hereto subsisting between us, the undersigned, and carried on at Dunedin as Furriers, Fur Dyers, and Importers, under the name or style of “The Mutual Fur Company,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 21st day of October, 1927.

Dated at Dunedin, this 2nd day of November, 1927.

S. V. JOHNSON.
Witness to the signature of Stephen Verne Johnson—
Ralph R. Aspinall, Solicitor, Dunedin.

H. HALLIGAN.
Witness to the signature of Harold Halligan—William Christie, Flour-miller, Lawrence.
934

[No. 326/27.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Northern District.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of A. ERNEST WARDE, LIMITED, a company duly incorporated under the said Act, having its registered office situated at Beach Road, Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above company by the Supreme Court was, on the 28th day of October, 1927, presented to Mr. Justice Reed, a Judge of the Supreme Court, by George Barakat, of Auckland, Agent, a creditor of the said company: And the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court on the 25th day of November, 1927, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon; and any creditor or contributory of the said company desirous of opposing the making of an order for the winding-up of the said company under the above Act should appear at the time of hearing by himself, or his counsel, for that purpose; and a copy of the said petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the requested charge for the same.

NEWBERY AND TORRENS,
Solicitors for the Petitioner.
Chancery Chambers, O’Connell Street, Auckland.
935

In the matter of W. E. WILKES, LIMITED (and Reduced), and in the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand dated the 26th day of October, 1927, confirming the above-named company’s resolution to reduce its capital from £15,000 to £10,000, and the minute (approved by the Court) showing with respect to the capital of the company, as altered, the several particulars required by the above Act, were registered by the Registrar of Companies on the 8th day of November, 1927.

And further take notice that the said minute is in the words and figures following: “The capital of W. E. Wilkes, Limited, henceforth is £10,000, divided into 1,500 shares of £6 13s. 4d. each instead of the original capital of £15,000 divided into 1,500 shares of £10 each. At the time of the registration of this minute the sum of £6 13s. 4d. has been and is to be deemed paid up on each of the said shares.”

Dated the 8th day of November, 1927.

D. STEWART,
Solicitor for the above company,
Richmond.
936

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Oamaru Jockey Club at a meeting held on the 1st day of November, 1927, at Oamaru, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. William Gardiner, 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. F. Jones moved, and Mr. George Livingstone 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:—

OAMARU JOCKEY 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 Oamaru Jockey 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 Otago, and known as the Wingatui 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.