Sept. 29. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2947

under the provisions of section 16 of the Maori Councils Act, 1900, and in pursuance of the powers, rights, duties, and functions of the Te Arawa Maori Council conferred upon it by section 17 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

BY-LAWS.

69. EVERY person is liable to a fine not exceeding £5 who within a Maori village, pa, or assemblage of houses, commits any of the following offences:—
    (1) Ill-treats any animal or leaves it for any time without sufficient food and water.
    (2) Leaves any inflammable material upon any open space or near any building.
    (3) Disturbs any congregation assembled in religious worship or any public meeting or entertainment.
    (4) Behaves in a notorious, offensive, threatening, insulting, disorderly, or indecent manner, or uses any threatening, abusive, or insulting words, or profane, indecent, or obscene language, or strikes or fights with any person.
    (5) Wilfully exposes his person or does any grossly indecent act.
    (6) Wilfully trespasses within a Maori village and refuses to leave such village after being warned to do so by a member of the Arawa Trust Board or of the Village Committee or such person as the said Board or Village Committee may depute for the purpose.

70. (a) No person shall conduct a picture show or other entertainment within a Maori village unless licensed to do so by the Village Committee. Any such license may be signed by any two members of the Village Committee.
    (b) The fee for any such license shall be one pound per month or part of a month, but the Village Committee may remit such license fee either wholly or in part.
    (c) Any person infringing against this by-law shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding £10.

The powers conferred by these by-laws are in addition to and not in substitution for the powers conferred by any other Act.

The above by-laws were passed at a meeting by the Arawa District Trust Board held at Rotorua on the 19th day of May, 1927, and are given under the seal of the said Board.

H. TAI MITCHELL, Chairman.

Special Order made by the Peninsula County Council merging Road Districts.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th September, 1927.

THE following special order, made by the Peninsula County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1920.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER PASSED AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PENINSULA COUNTY COUNCIL HELD ON 4TH AUGUST, 1927, AND CONFIRMED ON 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1927.

“That the Road Board of the Portobello Road District, the Road Board of the Tomahawk Road District, the Road Board of the Peninsula Road District, and the Road Board of the Otago Heads Road District be dissolved, and that such road district be merged in the Peninsula County.”

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.

W. FLEMING, Clerk,
Peninsula County Council.

Portobello, 16th September, 1927.
(I.A. 19/30/55.)

Special Order made by the Hauraki United Drainage Board subdividing its District and fixing Representation.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th September, 1927.

THE following special order, made by the Hauraki United Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and its amendments.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

HAURAKI UNITED DRAINAGE BOARD.

In the exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 16 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, by section 3 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1908, and by section 2 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1920, the Hauraki United Drainage Board hereby resolves, by way of special order as follows:—

(1) That the Hauraki United Drainage District is hereby subdivided into four subdivisions named respectively Central North Subdivision, Central South Subdivision, Northern Subdivision, and Southern Subdivision, which said subdivisions are respectively described in the Schedule hereto.

(2) That the number of trustees to be elected for each subdivision be as follows: Central North Area, two trustees; Central South Area, two trustees; Northern Area, two trustees; and Southern Area, one trustee.

SCHEDULE.

Central North Subdivision.

ALL that land in the Hauraki United Drainage District bounded commencing at a point on the right bank of the Piako River, at the intersection of a drain commonly called the Shell Bank drain, situate between Sections 3B 2A and 3A 2E, Kopuarahi Block; thence in a easterly direction along the centre of the Shell Bank drain to and across a public road called the Kopuarahi-Kerepeehi Road to the point of its intersection with the Kopuarahi-Turua Road; thence in an easterly direction along the centre of the Kopuarahi-Turua Road to and across the public road called the Turua-Netherton (Hauraki) Road to the point of its intersection with that road; thence in a northerly direction along the centre of the Turua-Netherton Road to the intersection of a drain commonly called the Piako Outlet, situate to the south of Lot 13, Turau Township; thence in an easterly direction along the centre of the Piako Outlet to its intersection with the left bank of the Waihou River; thence generally in a southerly and easterly direction along the left bank of the Waihou River to a point on the bank of the river in line with the centre of the Huirau Road; thence in a westerly direction by a right line to and along the centre of the Huirau Road to the centre of the Turua-Netherton Road; thence in a southerly direction along the centre of the Turua-Netherton Road to a point in line with the centre of the public road commonly called Orchard East Road; thence in a westerly direction by a right line to and along the centre of Orchard East Road, to its intersection with the right bank of the Piako River; thence generally in a northerly direction by the right bank of the Piako River to the point of commencement.

Central South Subdivision.

All that land in the Hauraki United Drainage District bounded commencing at a point on the right bank of the Piako River at the intersection of the road commonly called the Orchard East Road; thence bounded towards the north by the southern boundary of the Central North Subdivision hereinbefore described; thence bounded generally towards the east by the Waihou River to a point on the bank of the river in line with the centre of a public road commonly called the Wharepoa Road; thence bounded towards the south by a right line to and along the centre of the Wharepoa-Kerepeehi Road in a south-westerly direction to and across the public road called the Turua-Netherton Road, and again along the centre of the Wharepoa-Kerepeehi Road to its intersection of the right bank of the Piako River; thence generally in a north-westerly direction by the right bank of the Piako River to the point of commencement.

Northern Subdivision.

All that land in the Hauraki United Drainage District lying to the northward of the Central North Subdivision hereinbefore described.

Southern Subdivision.

All that land in the Hauraki United Drainage District lying to the southward of the Central South Subdivision hereinbefore described.

CERTIFICATE.

As required by section 100 of the Counties Act, 1920, I hereby certify that the attached Schedule is a correct description of the boundaries of the proposed subdivision of the Hauraki United Drainage District, and are sufficient to render the new boundaries capable of identification as indicated by coloured borders on the lithos submitted by the Hauraki United Drainage Board.

D. W. WILSON,
For Chief Surveyor.

16th August, 1927.
(I.A. 19/196/9.)