SEPT. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2575

approval, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, as such Native Minister,
being satisfied that the scheme so submitted is just and
equitable, and is in the public interest, do hereby confirm
the said scheme of consolidation of the 22nd day of August,
1925.
Dated this 5th day of September, 1925.
J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Portion of Scheme of Consolidation of Native Land confirmed.
In the matter of section 6 of the Native Land Amendment
and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923.
NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme of consolidation
in part dated the 22nd day of August, 1925, dealing
with the Ahomatariki and other blocks as set out in the
said scheme having been prepared by the Native Land Court
in accordance with the above-mentioned Act, and submitted
under the seal of the said Court to the Native Minister for
his approval, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, as such Native Minister,
being satisfied that the portion of the scheme so submitted
is just and equitable, and is in the public interest, do hereby
confirm the portion of the said scheme of consolidation which
was so submitted on the 22nd day of August, 1925.
Dated this 5th day of September, 1925.
J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Exemption of Slaughterhouse used in connection with the
curing of Bacon and Hams.—Notice No. 2521.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th September, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Gover-
nor-General has exempted from the operation of sec-
tion 17 (1) of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, the
slaughterhouse situated on Section 246, Block XIV, Tauranga
Survey District, Suburb of Greerton, and used by the Bay of
Plenty Bacon and Cold Storage Company (Limited), in con-
ection with the curing of bacon and hams.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.
Wellington, 11th September, 1925.
THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the
Board of the Manunui Town District, are published in
accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1913.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

MANUNUI TOWN BOARD.
PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers
of the Town District of Manunui taken on the 2nd day of
September, 1925, on the proposal of the Manunui Town
Board to borrow the sum of £4,000 for the reticulation of
electricity in Manunui,—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 46;
the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 25.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers
of the Town District of Manunui taken on the 2nd day of Sep-
tember, 1925, on the proposal of the Manunui Town Board
to borrow the sum of £1,000 for advances to property owners
of cost or part of cost of installation of electricity in their
premises,—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 43;
the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 28.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 3rd day of September, 1925.
R. F. BEAUTRAIS, Chairman.

Special Order made by the Halswell County Council altering
Riding Boundaries.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th September, 1925.
THE following special order, made by the Halswell County
Council, is published in accordance with the provisions
of the Counties Act, 1920.

Pursuant to section 100 of that Act, as amended by sec-
tion 3 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1921–22, I hereby
fix the 31st day of March, 1926, as the date from which the
special order shall take effect.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

HALSWELL COUNTY COUNCIL.
Special Order.
IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Counties
Act, 1920, the Halswell County Council resolves by way of
special order as follows :
That the present boundary between the Nos. 2 and 3
Ridings of the Halswell County be revoked, and that the
boundary between the said ridings shall be as described in
the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
Commencing at the Halswell River and proceeding in an
easterly direction by the centre-line of the road, between
Rural Section S. 1429 and Reserve 3520, thence in a northerly
direction by the western boundary of Rural Section 13589 and
that line produced; thence in an easterly direction by the
southern boundary of Rural Section 17739x; thence in a
northerly direction by the western boundary of Rural Sec-
tion 34552; thence in an easterly direction by the northern
boundary of Rural Sections 34552 and 34551, to the present
county boundary at the western side of Rural Section 20961.
G. T. MULCOCK, Chairman.
JAS. MACKENZIE, County Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been
duly made.
JAS. MACKENZIE, County Clerk.
Approved as sufficient to render the new boundaries capable
of identification.—G. H. BULLARD, Chief Surveyor.

Open Season for Red-deer Shooting, Southland Acclimatization
District (Stewart Island).
IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis
Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 24th day
of March, 1926, to the 31st day of May, 1926 (both days
inclusive), to be an open season in the Southland Acclimatiza-
tion District for the taking or killing of the following im-
ported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—within that part
of the said acclimatization district described in the First
Schedule hereto, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be
   issued by the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, on payment
   of a license fee of £1 in the form prescribed in the Second
   Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations
   thereunder and this notification. The number of such licenses
   to be issued by the said Chief Postmaster shall not exceed
   twenty-five. Provided that not more than one such license
   shall be issued to the same person.
2. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no metal-
   patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such
   deer.
3. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either
   himself or any attendant he may have with him.
4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.
5. Regulations as to the use of marks of identification
   of deer-heads contained in section 6 of the regulations under
   the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, published in
   the New Zealand Gazette of the 7th February, 1924, page
   437, shall be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in
   addition thereto, shall return all unused “tags” to the
   secretary of the Acclimatization Society, Invercargill, imme-
   diately he has finished stalking for the season for which such
   “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the
   number of deer shot.
6. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and
   hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer
   stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any
   registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes,
   or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any land excepted
   from the operation of the notification declaring an open
   season for the district.
7. Any person committing a breach of any of these condi-
   tions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.