EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLIV, Issue 34, 27 August 1919, Page 514

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From New Zealand Gazette, 1919, pages 2661, 2677, and 2695.)

Prohibiting the Importation into New Zealand of a certain

Publication.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, 1919.

Present : His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, and section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, doth hereby prohibit the importation into New Zealand of the publication named or described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE. The periodical publication called The Call: An Organ of International Socialism,” published in London.

F. D. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

Chief Officer of Police at Niue Island appointed

Cook Islands Department, Wellington, 19th August, 1919. HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Joseph Patrick McMahon-Box to be Chief Officer of Police at Niue Island, as from the 13th July, 1919, vice W. Ayling, resigned.

• M. POMARE, Minister for the Cook Islands

RESOLUTION. THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Poverty Bay Turf Club at a meeting held on the 25th day of July, 1919, at Gisborne, with a recommendation by the Chairman of the Club, Mr. J. W. Nolan, that the same bo passed at once with a view to their approval by the Governor-General, in pursuance of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33. Mr. J. W. Nolan, the Chairman of the Club and the Meeting, moved, and Mr, W. L. Rutledge seconded, and it was resolved, that such regulations should be adopted, and that the Chairman be authorized to sign the same in authentication thereof.

The following are the regulations referred to :

POVERTY BAY TURF 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 Poverty Bay Turf Club, a racing club within the meaning of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said club”), doth hereby revoke the regulations dated the 28th day of June, 1917, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations controlling the admission of persons to that part of the racecourse situated in the District of Poverty Bay, and known as the Makaraka 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 Neiv 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. (6.) 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 Association, or the New Zealand Trotting Conference. ( d Common prostitutes, and persons who habitually consort with thieves or with 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.

The foregoing regulations of the Poverty Bay Turf Club were made and passed by the Poverty Bay Turf Club on the 25th day of June, 1919, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary.

J. W. NOLAN, Chairman. D. R. De COSTA, Secretary

The foregoing regulations of the Poverty Bay Turf Club are hereby approved this 6th day of August, 1919.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General,