May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1559

OTOROHANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Awatane Special-rating Area Loan, £700.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Otorohanga County Council hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £700, authorized to be raised by the Otorohanga County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying part of the cost of acquisition of land, fencing, road formation, culverting, bridge building, and metalling Awatane Road from Auckland-Wellington Main Highway to the Mangaorongo Stream, together with the branch road approximately ten chains in length running northwards from Awatane Road, the said Otorohanga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and five-sixteenths of a penny in the pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Awatane Special-rating Area as described in the Schedule hereto, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of October in each and every year during the currency of the loan, being a period of twenty years, or such shorter period as may be determined by the Council, or until the loan is fully paid off.

THE SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE MENTIONED.

All that area in the Mangaorongo Survey District, in the County of Otorohanga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, bounded, commencing at the westernmost corner of Rangitoto C Block ; towards the north-west by the north-western boundaries of the said Rangitoto C Block and Lots 7, 6, 2, and 1 on deposited plan 11766; thence towards the north by the northern boundaries of the said Lot 1 on deposited plan No. 11766, part of Rangitoto A No. 1B No. 2 and Lot 1 on deposited plan No. 9133, to a public road known as Ngahape Road; towards the east by the said Ngahape Road, to the south-eastern boundary of Rangitoto A No. 1B No. 2; thence towards the south generally by the south-eastern boundaries of the said Rangitoto A No. 1B No. 2, Lot 4 and part of Lot 5 on deposited plan No. 11766, to the north-eastern corner of Rangitoto-Tuhua 29A No. 1, and the eastern and southern boundaries of the aforementioned block to the Mangaorongo Stream; thence by the Mangaorongo Stream, to the eastern-most corner of Rangitoto-Tuhua 31c No. 2B; thence following the southern and western boundaries of the Rangitoto-Tuhua 31c No. 2B, and the western and northern boundaries of Rangitoto-Tuhua 31f No. 2, and the northern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 31c to the Mangaorongo Stream; thence following the Mangaorongo Stream to the point of commencement.

S. J. FORTESCUE, Clerk.

NOBLE AND CANNON, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of NOBLE AND CANNON, LTD., a private company incorporated under the above Act.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of shareholders held at Hawera on 14th day of May, 1931, the following extraordinary resolution was passed :—
“ That it having been proved to its satisfaction that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, it was advisable to wind up the company, and that Mr. R. S. SAGE be appointed as Liquidator, the advisability of his subsequent appointment as Official Liquidator to be considered later.”

ROBERT S. SAGE, Liquidator.

NEW ZEALAND.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1909.

Advertisement of Cancelling.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, by writing under his hand dated this 20th day of May, 1931, cancelled the registry of the City of Waikato Benefit Society Friendly Society (Register No. 394), held at Hamilton, on the ground that the said society has ceased to exist.

R. WITHEFORD, Registrar.

NOTICE OF ADDITION TO SURNAME.

I, STANLEY BLACKBURN HOSIE JEFFS, heretotore but commonly known as STANLEY BLACKBURN Hosie, of Dunedin, but now of Waimate, Footwear Retailer, hereby give public notice that by deed poll dated the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, duly executed and enrolled in the office of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Dunedin on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, I formally determined to assume and take from the date thereof and thenceforth to use the surname of “Jeffs” in addition to the surname of “Hosie,” but as my last and principal surname, and thereby declared that on all occasions whatsoever thenceforth I intended to use and subscribe and wished to be designated, described, and addressed by such additional and principal surname of “Jeffs” accordingly.

Dated this fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

STANLEY BLACKBURN HOSIE JEFFS,
Formerly STANLEY BLACKBURN Hosie,
160 Commonly known as STANLEY BLACKBURN JEFFS.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Taumarunui Racing Club at a meeting held on the 13th day of May, 1931, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such Club, Mr. R. Craig, 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. Craig, the Chairman of such Club, and the meeting moved, and Mr. C. A. Boles 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 :-

TAUMARUNUI 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 Taumar-unui 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 Auckland, and known as the Ellerslie 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 book-makers’ 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 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 Executive 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