13 JUNE
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1179
PRIVATE BILL
THE GRAND LODGE OF FREEMASONS OF NEW ZEALAND
TRUSTEES AMENDMENT BILL
In the matter of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New
Zealand Trustees Amendment Bill 1957, being a private
bill intituled "An Act to amend the Grand Lodge of Free-
masons of New Zealand Trustees Act 1903."
NOTICE is hereby given that the person hereinafter named as
promoter of the above-mentioned Bill intends to present a
petition to the House of Representatives in Parliament
assembled during the present session for leave to bring in the
above-mentioned Bill.
The objects of the Bill are:
(a) To extend the provisions of the Grand Lodge of Free-
masons of New Zealand Trustees Act 1903 to apply
to any Masonic fund, institution, association, or
organisation which is approved for the purposes of the
Act by a resolution passed by a General Communica-
tion of Grand Lodge upon the recommendation of
the Board of General Purposes of Grand Lodge and
to the property and assets of any fund, institution,
association, or organisation so approved and to the
trustees of all such property and assets, in like manner
as it applies to Grand Lodge and the property and
assets of Grand Lodge and the trustees of Grand
Lodge.
(b) To make provision that a certificate under the hand of
the authorised representative for the time being or
the acting authorised representative for the time
being to the effect that a fund, institution, association,
or organisation has been approved for the purposes of
the Act shall be sufficient evidence that the fund,
institution, association, or organisation named in the
certificate is a Masonic fund, institution, association,
or organisation to which the Act applies, and that
it has been approved for the purposes of the Act in
manner prescribed by the Act.
The promoter of the Bill is Frederick George Northern,
of Wellington, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of
Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of New Zealand. The
address of the promoter is care of Messrs Luckie, Hain, Wiren,
and Kennard, Solicitors, 2nd Floor, D.I.C. Building, Brandon
Street, Wellington, to which address all communications and
notices may be sent. Printed copies of the Bill have been
deposited in the office of the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives on the 29th day of May 1957 and at the offices of
Messrs Luckie, Hain, Wiren, and Kennard aforesaid, where
the said copies may be inspected and obtained.
Dated at Wellington this 29th day of May 1957.
LUCKIE, HAIN, WIREN AND KENNARD,
Solicitors for the promoter.
NOTICE OF PRIVATE BILL
In the matter of a Private Bill intituled "An Act to validate
the change of name of The Bank of New Zealand Officers'
Guarantee and Provident Association and to amend the
Bank of New Zealand Officers' Guarantee and Provident
Association Act 1900".
NOTICE is hereby given that the Bank of New Zealand
Officers' Provident Association, a body corporate constituted
by the Bank of New Zealand Officers' Guarantee and Provi-
dent Association Act 1900 under the name or style of "The
Bank of New Zealand Officers' Guarantee and Provident
Association" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Associa-
tion"), intends to apply to the House of Representatives in
Parliament assembled for leave to bring in the above-
mentioned Bill, the short title of which is the Bank of New
Zealand Officers' Provident Association Amendment Act 1957.
The objects of the Bill are: (a) to declare that the change
of name of the said Association purporting to be effected by
a ballot of members of the said Association held on the 31st
day of October 1955 was validly made; (b) to make pro-
vision for enabling the assets of the said Association held
under its former name to be dealt with by the said Associa-
tion under its new name; and (c) to amend the provisions of
the Bank of New Zealand Officers' Guarantee and Provident
Association Act 1900 with respect to the mode of execution
of contracts required to be executed under seal by the said
Association.
The promoter of the Bill is the said The Bank of New
Zealand Officers' Provident Association, whose address for
service of notices and communications is at the offices of its
duly appointed solicitors, Messieurs Findlay, Hoggard, Cousins,
and Armstrong, T. and G. Building, Grey Street, Wellington,
where a copy of the Bill may be inspected.
Printed copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private
Bill Office, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, on or before
the 7th day of June 1957.
Dated this 29th day of May 1957.
FINDLAY, HOGGARD, COUSINS, AND ARMSTRONG,
Solicitors for the Promoter.
THE PERPETUAL TRUSTEES ESTATE AND AGENCY
CO. OF NEW ZEALAND LTD.
I, Thomas Frederick Basire, General Manager of the Perpetual
Estate and Agency Co. of New Zealand Ltd., do solemnly
and sincerely declare:

1. That the liability of the members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £106,250, divided
   into 25,000 shares of £4 5s.
3. That the number of shares issued is 25,000.
4. That calls to the amount of 20s. (twenty shillings) per
   share have been made under which the sum of £25,000 has
   been received.
5. That the amount of money received on account of estates
   under administration during the six months ended 31 March
   1957 is £1,174,467 10s. 3d.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of
   estates under administration during the six months ended 31
   March 1957 is £1,201,622 0s. 11d.
7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of
   estates under administration during the six months ended 31
   March 1957 is £297,378 6s. 10d.
8. That the liabilities of the company on the 1st day of
   April last owing to sundry persons by the company were: On
   judgment, nil; on specialty, nil; on notes or bills, nil; on
   simple contracts, £548,200 7s. 5d.; on estimated liabilities, nil.
9. That the assets of the company on that date were:
   Government securities, £6,000; other securities, £385,543 4s. 7d.;
   bills of exchange and promissory notes, nil; cash on deposit
   and at bank, £226,272 8s. 6d.
   And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believ-
   ing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an
   Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the
   Justices of the Peace Act 1927.
   T. F. BASIRE.
   Declared by the said Thomas Frederick Basire at Dunedin
   this 4th day of June 1957 before me—W. W. King, a Justice
   of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand. 690
   WHAKATANE RACING CLUB (INCORPORATED)
   RESOLUTION
   THE following regulations were laid before the members of
   the Whakatane Racing Club (Incorporated) at a meeting
   held on the 13th day of May 1957 at Edgecumbe with a
   recommendation by the chairman of such club, Mr David S.
   Radcliffe, 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 David S. Radcliffe, the chairman of such club and the
   meeting, moved, and Mr Raymond Crawford seconded, and
   it was resolved that such regulations should be adopted and
   that the chairman and secretary be authorised to sign the
   same in authentication thereof.
   The following are the regulations referred to:
   WHAKATANE RACING CLUB
   REGULATIONS
   (Under the Gaming Act 1908)
   IN pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf con-
   tained in section 33 of the Gaming Act 1908 and of all other
   powers and authorities it enabling in that behalf, the Whaka-
   tane 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 Bay of Plenty Racecourse situated in
   the district of Tauranga County and known as the Gate Pa
   Racecourse while the said racecourse is used or occupied by
   the said club for race meetings.
10. These regulations shall come into force on the date of
    the same being published in the Gazette.
11. 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
13. 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 con-
    sort with thieves or persons who have no lawful
    visible means of support.