May 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1359

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Otaki Maori Racing Club at a meeting held on the 23rd day of April, 1935, at Otaki, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. H. Makemerenei, 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. H. Makemerenei, the Chairman of such club, and the meeting moved, and Mr. J. H. Heremaia 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 :—

OTAKI MAORI 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 Otaki Maori 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 Levin Racecourse, situated in the District of Horowhenua, and known as the Levin 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 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 Otaki Maori Racing Club were made and passed by such club on the 23rd day of April, 1935, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

H. MAKEMERENI, Chairman.

N. WINIATA, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Otaki Maori Racing Club are hereby approved, this 29th day of April, 1935.

139 GALWAY, Governor-General.

WANGANUI CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION TO MAKE AND LEVY 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 Wanganui City Council Loans Conversion Order, 1935, the Wanganui City 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 Wanganui City 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, and also the instalments of principal and interest in respect of the unconverted securities issued in respect of such loans, the Wanganui City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny (1d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the district, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities and be payable half-yearly on the first day of June and the first day of December in each and every year until the last maturity date of such securities, being the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, or until all such securities are fully paid off.”

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wanganui was hereunto affixed this 10th day of May, 1935, by order of the Council by and in the presence of—

N. G. ARMSTRONG, Mayor.

G. MURCH, Town Clerk.

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WANGANUI CITY COUNCIL.

CERTIFICATE IN TERMS OF THE PROVISO TO SUBCLAUSE (2) OF CLAUSE 4 OF THE WANGANUI CITY COUNCIL LOANS CONVERSION ORDER, 1935.

I, NORMAN GRAHAM ARMSTRONG, Mayor of the City of Wanganui, hereby certify—

1. That at a special meeting of the Wanganui City Council duly convened and held at the Council Chambers, St. Hill Street, Wanganui, on the 24th day of April, 1935, a special resolution the purport of which is as follows :—

(a) Pursuant to section 9 of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932-33, and any amendment thereof, and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Wanganui City Council Loans Conversion Order, 1935, to issue new securities in conversion of the securities existing in respect of various special loans raised at various times by the following local authorities—namely, the Wanganui Borough Council, the Gonville Town Board, and the Castlecliff Town Board—the districts of the above local authorities having since the raising of the said loans become part of the City of Wanganui, and the liability for the payment of such special loans having become the liability of the said city, the said loans being—

The Wanganui Borough Council Drainage and Waterworks Loan (Aramoho) (in part) ;

The Wanganui Borough Council General Purposes Loan (in part) ;

The Wanganui Borough Council Drainage and Waterworks Loan (Durietown) (in part) ;

The Wanganui Borough Council Dublin Street Bridge No. 2 Loan ;

The Wanganui Borough Council Workers’ Dwellings Loan (in part) ;

The Gonville Drainage Water-supply Extension and Streets Construction Loan of £50,000 (in part) ;

The Castlecliff Water and Drainage No. 2 Loan of £20,000 (in part) ; and

The Castlecliff Water Drainage and Streets Improvement Loan (in part)—

and aggregating £91,655, by converting the debentures issued in respect of the said loans to the amount above mentioned (except those in respect of which dissent is duly signified as provided by the Wanganui City Council Loans Conversion Order, 1935) into new debentures having the maturity dates and for the amounts including interest as hereinafter mentioned.

(b) That the conversion of the existing securities into new securities shall take effect as and from the 1st day of June, 1935.

(c) That the aggregate amount of new securities issued in conversion of existing securities to which the Wanganui City Council Loans Conversion Order, 1935, applies, together with interest thereon computed at the rate of 4½ per centum per annum, shall be repaid by equal half-yearly instalments over a period of twenty-three years, the first half-yearly instalment to fall due and be paid on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and subsequent half-yearly instalments to fall due and be paid in every first day of June and first day of December thereafter, the last half-yearly instalment to fall due and be paid on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight.

(d) That the new securities for the amount of each half-yearly instalment of principal and interest shall be issued in the form of debentures as set out in the Second Schedule to the Wanganui City Council Loans Conversion Order, 1935.