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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 7

Special Order made by the Whakatane County Council altering the Boundaries of Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1923.

THE following special order, made by the Whakatane County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1920. Pursuant to section 100 of that Act, as amended by section 3 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1921-22, I hereby fix the thirty-first day of March, 1923, as the date from which the special order shall take effect.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.—SPECIAL ORDER AMENDING RIDING BOUNDARIES.

THAT the following amendments be made to riding boundaries as described hereunder; and, further, the representation of each riding of the Whakatane County (in regard to the number of members required for each riding) remain as at present.

The old riding boundaries are shown on page 2335 of New Zealand Gazette No. 98, of the 14th June, 1917.

AMENDED BOUNDARIES.

Matata Riding.

No alteration.

Tarawera Riding.

No alteration.

Rangitaiki Riding.

No alteration.

Omataroa Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, bounded towards the north generally by the high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty, commencing at the north-west corner of Allotment 28, Parish of Rangitaiki; thence in an easterly direction along said high-water mark to a point on the left bank at the mouth of the Whakatane River; thence generally in a southerly direction along the left bank of the Whakatane River to the south-east corner of Allotment 31, Rangitaiki Parish; thence westerly along the southern boundary of Allotment 31 aforesaid to its south-west corner; thence in a northerly direction along part of the eastern boundary of Rangitaiki Riding as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 14th June, 1917, page 2336, to point of commencement.

Taneatua Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, bounded, commencing at a point on the left bank of the mouth of the Whakatane River being the north-east corner of the Omataroa Riding aforesaid, towards the north and east along the county boundary and high-water mark, Bay of Plenty, to boundary-road between the Whakatane and Opotiki Counties in Block III, Whakatane Survey District; thence generally in a southerly direction along the said Whakatane County boundary-road to its intersection with the eastern boundary of Small Grazing-run 3; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of Small Grazing-runs 3 and 4 and of Allotments 361, 360, 352, and 348, Waimana Parish, to northern boundary of Allotment 345A of said Parish; thence along northern and part eastern boundaries of said Allotment 345A to south-western corner of Allotment 357, Waimana Parish; thence easterly along southern boundary of said Allotment 357, northerly along part eastern boundary of said allotment to southern boundary of Allotment 336; thence easterly along said southern boundary and across a public road; thence southerly along said road to southern boundary of Allotment 318, Waimana Parish; thence easterly along said southern boundary to north-eastern corner of Allotment 316; thence southerly along eastern boundaries of Allotments 316 and 317 to south-eastern corner of Allotment 317; thence westerly along southern boundary of said Allotment 317 to a road; thence north-easterly along said road to production of southern boundary of Allotment 341; thence westerly across said road, along southern boundaries of Allotments 341 and 343, to south-western corner of said Allotment 343; thence northerly along western boundary of Allotment 343 to a public road; thence west generally along said road to where it touches Waimana River at south-eastern corner of Allotment 322; thence along the right bank of the said Waimana River to its junction with the Whakatane River; thence across said Whakatane River, and southerly along its left bank to the southern boundary of Lot 32, Rangitaiki Parish; thence westerly along said southern boundary of Lot 32 to its south-west corner; thence northerly along west boundary of said Lot 32 to southern boundary of Omataroa Riding hereinbefore described; thence easterly along said southern boundary to the Whakatane River; thence generally in a northerly direction along left bank of Whakatane River to point of commencement.

Opouriao Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, bounded commencing at the north-west corner of Allotment 33, Rangitaiki Parish; thence easterly along southern boundary of Taneatua Riding hereinbefore described to a point the production of the east boundary of Section 14, Block XIII, Whakatane Survey District; thence by a right line to the north-east corner of said Section 14, Block XIII, Whakatane Survey District; thence southerly along eastern boundaries of Sections 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, of said Block XIII, and by the eastern boundaries of Sections 4 and 5, Block II, Waimana Survey District, to the confiscation boundary-line; thence in an easterly direction by said confiscation boundary-line to the north-west corner of Section 1, Waimana Settlement, a point on the west boundary of Block III, Waimana Survey District; thence south along the west boundary of Blocks III, VII, XI, XV, Waimana Survey District, Blocks III, VII, XI, XV, Uriwera Survey District, Blocks III, VII, XI, XV, Ruatahuna Survey District, and Block III and part Block VII, Waikaremoana West Survey District, to its intersection with the southern boundary of Whakatane County; thence south-westerly along the said county boundary to the aforedescribed Rangitaiki Riding; thence northerly along the east boundary of the said Rangitaiki Riding to the point of commencement.

Nukuhou Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, bounded commencing at the Whakatane County boundary at eastern boundary of Small Grazing-run 3; thence generally in a southerly direction along the Whakatane County boundary to its intersection with the right bank of the Waimana River; thence northerly along the right bank of said Waimana River to the junction of Lowe’s Road and the Taneatua-Waimana Road at the north end of the Waimana River bridge in Block III, Waimana Survey District; thence along the eastern side of the said Taneatua-Waimana Road to the confiscation boundary-line; thence westerly along said confiscation boundary-line to the south-west corner of Lot 8 of Allotment 307, Parish of Waimana; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said Lot 8; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Lot 16 of Allotment 307 aforesaid; thence northerly by the western boundaries of said Section 16 and Section 15 of Allotment 307 aforesaid to the north-west corner of Lot 15 aforesaid; thence easterly by the south boundary of Allotment 329 to the south-east corner of said Allotment 329, Waimana Parish; thence northerly by the eastern boundaries of Allotments 329, 328, 317, 316, to the north-east corner of aforesaid Allotment 316, Waimana Parish; thence westerly by the north boundary of said Allotment 316 to the north-west corner of aforesaid Allotment 316; thence northerly along the road forming the west boundary of Allotment 318, Waimana Parish, to a point the production of the northern boundary of Allotment 330, Waimana Parish, and by a line to the north-east corner of said Allotment 330, Waimana Parish; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Allotment 330 aforesaid; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Allotment 357, Waimana Parish; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Allotment 357 to eastern boundary of Allotment 345A, Waimana Parish; thence northerly by the Taneatua Riding boundary hereinbefore described to point of commencement.

Waimana Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, bounded, commencing at a point on the north-west corner of Allotment 337, Waimana Parish, Block XIV, Whakatane Survey District; thence east and south-easterly along the boundaries of the Taneatua Riding to south-east corner of Allotment 317, Waimana Parish; thence along the boundaries of the Nukuhou Riding hereinbefore described to the point where the Whakatane County boundary meets the right bank of the Waimana River (on the east boundary of Block VII, Waimana Survey District); thence southerly along the Whakatane County boundary to Trig. Pukehuruhuru; thence south-westerly along the Whakatane County boundary to its intersection with the eastern boundary of Opouriao Riding hereinbefore described; thence northerly along the said riding boundary and part of southern and eastern boundaries of the Taneatua Riding hereinbefore described to the point of commencement.

Certified correct.—J. D. THOMSON, for Chief Surveyor. 3/11/22.

H. R. ROBINSON, County Clerk.

I, Hercules Robert Robinson, County Clerk of the Whakatane County Council, do hereby certify that the schedule of amendments to certain riding boundaries of the Whakatane County Council were duly made by special order in accordance