Dec. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4391

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Whakatane County Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 1).

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by Part II of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, and the Whakatane County Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 1), the Whakatane County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the half-yearly instalments of principal and interest in respect of the new securities authorized to be issued by the Whakatane County Council under the above-mentioned Act and Order in conversion of existing securities issued in respect of the loans set out in the First Schedule to that Order, the Whakatane County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-tenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₀d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Whakatane County Special Rating District, and such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities and be payable yearly on the 20th day of November in each and every year until the maturity date of the last of such securities, being the 20th day of November, 1964, and until all such securities are fully paid off.”

C. G. LUCAS,
County Clerk.

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HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CLOSE ROAD.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Hawke’s Bay County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to close the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto:

Notice is further given that a plan of the road proposed to be closed is deposited in the public offices of the Hawke’s Bay County Council at Browning Street, Napier, and is open for inspection by all persons during ordinary office hours:

All persons objecting to the proposal to close the said portion of road must lodge their objections in writing at the office of the Hawke’s Bay County Council, Browning Street, Napier, on or before the 31st day of January, 1935.

THE SCHEDULE.

All that portion of road, containing an area of 3 roods 15·3 perches, adjoining or passing through Lots 5, 6, and 7 on Deposited Plan 2449, Lots 3 and 4 on Deposited Plan 2726, and a public road, situate at Havelock North, in the Registration District of Hawke’s Bay and County of Hawke’s Bay, and shown coloured green on a plan deposited for inspection at the offices of the Hawke’s Bay County Council aforesaid.

W. J. O’CONNELL,
Clerk, Hawke’s Bay County Council.

This notice was first published on the 17th day of December, 1934, in the Daily Telegraph newspaper published at Napier. 1083

WOODVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by Part II of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, and the Woodville County Loans Conversion Order, 1934, the Woodville County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the new securities authorized to be issued by the Woodville County Council under the above-mentioned Act and Order in conversion of existing securities issued in respect of the loans set out in the First Schedule to that Order, the Woodville County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-thirteenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₃d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the County of Woodville, and such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities and be payable yearly on the first day of September in each and every year until the maturity date of the last of such securities, being the 1st day of December, 1951, or until all such securities are fully paid off.”

I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed by the Woodville County Council and embodied in the minutes of said meeting.

J. M. GRAHAM,
County Clerk.

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RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Reefton Trotting Club at a meeting held on the 8th day of December, 1934, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such Club, Mr. F. W. Archer, 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. W. Archer, the Chairman of such Club and the meeting moved, and Mr. Fred Collis 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:—

REEFTON TROTTING 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 Reefton Trotting 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 Victoria Park, Greymouth, situated in the district of Greymouth and known as the Trotting Club 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 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 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 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 Reefton Trotting Club were made and passed by such Club on the 8th day of December, 1934, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

F. W. ARCHER, Chairman.

C. J. WILLIS, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Reefton Trotting Club are hereby approved, this 17th day of December, 1934.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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