Feb. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 393

Southern Subdivision.—All that land in the Horahia Drainage District lying to the southward of the Central Subdivision hereinbefore described.

I certify that the above is a copy of a special order passed by the Horahia Drainage Board on 4th December, 1925, and confirmed by the Board at a meeting held on 15th January, 1926.

W. E. G. WILLY, Clerk.

By-law No. 3 of the Whakatane Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th February, 1926.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of By-law No. 3 made by the Whakatane Borough Council on the 16th day of November, 1925.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

I pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of January, 1926.

Dated this 4th day of February, 1926.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Mataura, the County of Southland, and of the Mataura Riding of the County of Southland.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th February, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said section”), the boundaries of the Borough of Mataura are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by an Order in Council dated the 27th day of January, 1926, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 6, of the 4th day of February, 1926.

And also, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section, the boundaries of the County of Southland and of the Mataura Riding of that county, affected by the said Order in Council, are hereby defined as set out in the Second and Third Schedules hereto respectively.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
BOROUGH OF MATAURA.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the right bank of the Mataura River in line with the easternmost corner of Section 15, Block VII, Mataura Township; thence down the right bank of the Mataura River to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary-line of Section 74, Block XVII, Town of Mataura Bridge; thence to and along that boundary and its production to the eastern side of Boundary Road: thence southerly along the eastern side of Boundary Road and the eastern boundaries of Sections 64 and 63, Block XVII, Mataura Bridge Township, and again by the eastern side of Boundary Road to a point in line with the southern side of Crawford’s Road; thence westerly generally along the southern side of Crawford’s Road to the north-eastern corner of Section 20, Block XVII, Mataura Bridge Township; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of Sections 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, Block XVII aforesaid, to the south-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; thence westerly along the southern boundaries of Sections 24 and 25 and 28, Block XVII aforesaid, and the southern boundary of Lot 16, plan 398, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Invercargill, to the south-western corner of the said Lot 16; thence by a right line crossing the Mataura River to the left bank of the Waimumu Stream at its mouth; thence up the left bank of the Waimumu Stream to the north-western corner of Section 34, Block VII, Township of Mataura; thence due east along the northern boundaries of Sections 34, 33, 28, across a road, Sections 27 and 16, across a road and railway, a reserve, and Sections 13, 14, and 15, Block VII, Mataura Township, to the easternmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a right line to the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
COUNTY OF SOUTHLAND.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded on the north generally by Lake County and Vincent County respectively, as described in the First Schedule to the Counties Act, 1876, from the eastern boundary of Wallace County to the north-western corner of Tuapeka County, as described in New Zealand Gazette of 30th December, 1882, page 1955; thence towards the east generally by the said Tuapeka County and Clutha County as described in New Zealand Gazette of 6th February, 1913, page 451, to the ocean; thence towards the south generally by the ocean to the mouth of the Waimatuku Stream; and thence towards the west generally by Wallace County as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 4th February, 1897, page 342; excepting therefrom the Boroughs of Invercargill, South Invercargill, Winton, Gore, Mataura, Bluff, and the Town Districts of Wyndham and Lumsden.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
BOUNDARIES OF THE MATAURA RIDING, COUNTY OF SOUTHLAND.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded on the north by the northern boundaries of Blocks III, Otama Survey District, and VII and IV, Chatton Survey District, from the middle of the Mataura River to the middle of the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Section 20, Block IV aforesaid; thence easterly generally along the middle of that road to the western boundary of Section 17, Block IX, Chatton Survey District; thence along the northern boundaries of Sections 17 and 44, Block IX aforesaid, to the Waikaka Stream; thence northerly along the Waikaka Stream to the northern boundary of Block IX; thence easterly along that boundary to the county boundary; thence southerly along that boundary to the southernmost corner of Section 3, Block VI, Slopedown Survey District; thence along the south-western boundary of that section to the Mimihaau Stream; thence down the middle of the Mimihaau Stream to the Mataura River, and thence up the middle of the Mataura River to the northern boundary of Block III, Otama Survey District, the point of commencement, excluding therefrom those portions of the Boroughs of Gore and Mataura lying within the herein described boundaries.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Feilding and District Acclimatization District.

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 15th day of March, 1926, to the 30th day of April, 1926 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Feilding and District Acclimatization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be issued by the Secretary of the Feilding and District Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £2 2s., in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

2. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him.

3. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

4. 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 Feilding and District Acclimatization Society, Feilding, immediately he has finished stalking for the season for which such “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the number of deer shot.

5. 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.

6. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.