Feb. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 265

WAIRIOA LIME COMPANY, LIMITED

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

NOTICE is hereby given that by a special resolution passed at a meeting of the above company held on the 31st day of January, 1946, it was resolved that the company be wound up voluntarily.

B. D. FITZGERALD, Liquidator, Wanganui.

556

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

I, ERNEST THOMPSON, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1925, L.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1925, F.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1935, now residing in Ohura, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 28th February, 1946, to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Department of Health at Wellington.

Dated at Ohura, this 28th day of January, 1946.

ERNEST THOMPSON.

557

THE DRAPERY AND GENERAL IMPORTING COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED

LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE

APPLICATION has been made to the above company to issue a fresh certificate of title to preference shares Nos. 133, 601 to 133,900 inclusive, to SIR WILLIAM BLAXLAND BENHAM, of Dunedin, Professor Emeritus, in lieu of certificate No. 1331, supported by a statutory declaration that the original certificate of title to those shares has been lost or destroyed. Notice is hereby given that unless, within one calendar month from date hereof, there is made to the company some claim or representation in respect of the said original certificate, the Directors will proceed to deal with the application for a fresh certificate.

Dated this 15th day of February, 1946.

CHAS. T. LEE, General Secretary.

Registered Office, Octagon, Dunedin.

558

MATAKAOA COUNTY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the Matakaoa County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work, namely—the construction of a road—and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken.

And notice is hereby further given that plans of the land so required to be taken are deposited in the public office of the Clerk of the said Council situate at Te Araroa in the said County, New Zealand, and are open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by taking of such land who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said land, must state their objections in writing, and send same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the County Clerk, at the Council Chambers, Te Araroa.

SCHEDULE

THE approximate areas of land required to be taken are as follows, being portions of Blocks IX and X, East Cape Survey District, shown on plan 1300 (brown) and coloured thereon as hereinafter set forth :—

All the above lands being situated in Gisborne Registration District, Matakaoa County.

Dated the 13th day of February, 1946.

559 DAWSON E. CHRISP, Matakaoa County Commissioner.

RESOLUTION

THE following regulations were laid before members of the Wairio Jockey Club at a meeting held on the 23rd day of January, 1946, at Wairio, with a recommendation by the Chairman of such Club, Mr. T. Duncan, 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. T. Duncan, the Chairman of such club and the meeting moved, and Mr. C. Keen 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:—

WAIRIO 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 Wairio 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 Invercargill and known as the Southland 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 Wairio Jockey Club were made and passed by such club on the 23rd day of January, 1946, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

THOMAS DUNCAN, Chairman,
J. E. CUTHILL, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of the Wairio Jockey Club are hereby approved this 9th day of February, 1946.

560 C. L. N. NEWELL, Governor-General.

CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE notice that I, ROSS FRANCIS BECKLEY, of Auckland, University Student, and now lately called R. F. BENNINGTON, by deed-poll bearing date the 11th day of November, 1945, and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Auckland under No. 18/46 have renounced and abandoned the use of my former name of BENNINGTON and adopted the surname of BECKLEY.

ROSS FRANCIS BECKLEY.

15th February, 1946.

561

PAHIATUA COUNTY COUNCIL

RESULT OF POLL ON THE PROPOSAL TO INCREASE AUTHORIZED LIMIT OF BRIDGE RATE

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Pahiatua, taken on the 29th day of January, 1946, on the proposal of the Pahiatua County Council under section 24 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, to increase the authorized limit of the special rate known as the bridge rate as previously authorized by a poll of the ratepayers under the provisions of section 23 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, from the amount of not exceeding in any one year one farthing in the pound on the capital value of