MAY 22] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 633

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, 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 counter-
   feit 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 Kaikoura Trotting Club were
made and passed by such club on the 1st day of May, 1947, and
signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

F. J. MONK, Chairman.
H. J. HEWSON, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of Kaikoura Trotting Club are hereby
approved this 17th day of May, 1947.
138 B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General.

RESOLUTION

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the
Geraldine County Trotting Club at a meeting held on the
6th day of March, 1947, at Geraldine, with a recommendation by
the Chairman of such club, Mr. C. Stock, 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. Claude Stock, the Chairman of such club and the meeting,
moved, and Mr. W. F. Evans 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 :—

GERALDINE COUNTY 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 Geraldine County 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
racecourse, situated in the district of Orari and known as the Orari
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 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, 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 counter-
   feit 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 Geraldine County Trotting
Club were made and passed by such club on the 6th day of March,
1947, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

C. STOCK, Chairman.
L. D. McKENZIE, Secretary.

The foregoing regulations of Geraldine County Trotting Club
are hereby approved this 15th day of May, 1947.
139 B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General.

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 19th day of May, 1947,
cancelled the registry of St. Joseph's Branch, No. 858, of The New
Zealand District of the Hibernian-Australasian Catholic Benefit
Society (Register No. 198/109), held at Wellington, on the ground
that the said branch has ceased to exist.
140 G. E. BRADLEY, Registrar.

AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that
behalf by section 7 of the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22,
and the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers
(if any) it thereunto enabling, the Akaroa Borough Council hereby
resolves as follows :—

"That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest,
sinking fund, and other charges on the Bridge Replacement Loan,
1946, of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the said Council under
the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of replacing two wooden
bridges badly damaged by flood waters with concrete bridges, the
said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fourth
of one penny (1/4d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on
the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Borough
of Akaroa ; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring
rate during the currency of such loan and be payable annually on
the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency
of such loan, being a period of twenty years or until the loan is fully
paid off."

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of
the Borough of Akaroa was hereto affixed at the office of and
pursuant to a resolution of the Akaroa Borough Council in the
presence of—
R. BRUCE, Mayor.
[L.S.] P. G. RICHES, Town Clerk.
141

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

I, ROY TING SHANG LAW, M.B., Ch.B., 1947, now residing
in Wellington, hereby give notice that I intend applying
on the 20th June, 1947, 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 Wellington, this 20th day of May, 1947.
ROY TING SHANG LAW,
Wellington Hospital. 142

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

I, WARWICK NORMAN ANDREWS, M.B., Ch.B. (New
Zealand), 1947, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give
notice that I intend applying on the 19th June, 1947, 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 Christchurch, this 19th day of May, 1947.
WARWICK NORMAN ANDREWS.
"Wylie," Lansdowne Terrace, Dallington, Christchurch.
143

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

I, LESLIE RAYMOND CHAPMAN, M.B., Ch.B. (New Zealand),
1947, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice that I
intend applying on the 17th June, 1947, 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 Christchurch, this 16th day of May, 1947.
LESLIE RAYMOND CHAPMAN.
50 Bury Street, Sumner. 145