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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

District, as described in the First Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred to in condition No. 3 and in the Second Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following native game—viz., godwits—subject to the following conditions.

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CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such native game within the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Postmasters at Whitianga and Coromandel are hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such native game that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed twenty-five head.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill native game, shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill native game on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or any land mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any such native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such native game, with any automatic or auto-loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle or pea-rifle, swivel-gun, punt-gun, or pump-gun, or shall use any gun other than a shoulder-gun; and no gun shall be used for the purpose aforesaid the bore of which is larger than the size known as No. 12 at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which exceeds 10 lb. in weight.

5. Shooting may begin not earlier than one hour before sunrise and must cease not later than one hour after sunset.

6. No live birds of any species shall be used as decoys, nor shall more than twenty-five artificial decoys be used at any one time (whether by one or several persons) on any particular water within an area of less than 100 yards square.

7. No person shall use any power boat or launch in connection with the taking or killing of native game.

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

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District commencing at the mouth of the Waikawau River, up that river to its source; thence by a right line to the northern head of the Tairua Harbour; thence generally northerly, westerly, and southerly round the sea-coast to the mouth of the Waikawau River, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Area, in addition to those referred to in condition No. 3, excepted from the open season wherein native game shall not be taken or killed:—

Gannet Island.

As witness my hand this 27th day of September, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/17/26.)

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Special Order made by Waiapu County Council altering Riding Boundaries and adjusting Representation.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th September, 1928.

THE following special order, made by the Waiapu 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 1st day of April, 1929, as the date on which the special order shall take effect.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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SPECIAL ORDER.

WAIAPU COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL order made at a special meeting of the Waiapu County Council held at Waipiro Bay, at noon on Tuesday, the 21st day of August, 1928, and confirmed at the ordinary meeting of the Council on Tuesday, the 18th day of September, 1928, at 12.30 o’clock p.m.

Resolved,—That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Counties Act, 1920, the Waiapu County Council does hereby alter the number of the Ridings within the County of Waiapu to seven (7), to be known as the Awanui Riding, Piritarau Riding, Waipiro Riding, Tapuwaeroa Riding, Mata Riding, Hikuwai Riding, and Tokomaru Riding, and the boundaries of the same are as shown on the plan and described in the Schedule hereto.

That the Ridings of Awanui, Piritarau, and Tokomaru shall elect two members each, and the Ridings of Tapuwaeroa, Waipiro, Mata, and Hikuwai shall elect one member each to represent them on the Waiapu County Council.

This Special Order to come into force on the 1st day of April, 1929.

The Common Seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waiapu was affixed hereto in the presence of—

A. W. KIRK, Chairman.
M. HYLAND, Member.

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SCHEDULE.

Awanui Riding.

Commencing at a point (Ngatawakawaka) on the seashore at the East Cape, proceeding in a south-westerly direction generally by the southern boundary of the Matakaoa County to the north-east corner of the Poroporo Block in Block IV, Mangaoporo Survey District, and following the description as contained in New Zealand Gazette, 1925, Vol. III, Fourth Schedule, page 2609; thence in a southerly direction generally by the eastern boundary of the aforesaid Poroporo Block down the Ngararahiwihiwi and Poroporo Streams to the mouth of the Uapata Stream on the right bank of the Poroporo Stream; thence up the centre of the aforementioned Uapata Stream to its confluence with the Makawakawa Stream; thence by a right line and passing through portion of Poroporo Block to Trigonometrical Station T (Ouewheki) on the north-eastern boundary of Poroporo 1B; thence in a south-easterly direction by the north-eastern boundary of the aforementioned Poroporo 1B to the centre of the Mangaoporo River; thence in a south-easterly direction down the centre of the said Mangaoporo River to its confluence with the Waiapu River; thence in a southerly direction up the centre of the said Waiapu River to a point in line with the southern boundary of the Kainanga Block A 1B produced to the centre of the Waiapu River; thence in a south-easterly direction by the southern boundaries of the aforesaid Kainanga A 1B and A 1A, A 3B, and B 12 and by the southern boundaries of Ahikouka A 4, A 3B, and A 2 to the centre of the Reporua Stream; thence down the centre of that stream to the Pacific Ocean; thence in a north-easterly direction along the seashore to the place of commencement.

Tapuwaeroa Riding.

Commencing at a point on the north-east corner of Poroporo Block on the southern boundary of the Matakaoa County, proceeding in a southerly direction generally by the western boundary of the Awanui Riding hereinbefore described to a point in line with the southern boundary of Kainanga A 1B produced to the centre of the Waiapu River, continuing up the centre of the Waiapu and Mata Rivers in a south-westerly direction to the mouth of the Mangaohewa Stream on the west bank of the aforesaid Waiapu River in Block II, Mata Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction up the aforesaid Mangaohewa Stream to the south-west corner of the Waiaranga A 4A on the northern bank of the aforementioned Mangaohewa Stream; thence in a northerly direction by the western boundary of the aforesaid Waiaranga A 4A to the southern boundary of Tapuwaeroa 1B 2; thence in a westerly direction by the southern boundary of the aforesaid Tapuwaeroa 1B 2 to the centre of the Mangapeka Stream; thence in a south-westerly direction up the centre of that stream to the southernmost corner of Tapuwaeroa 1A 2B; thence in a north-westerly direction by the south-western boundary of the aforementioned Tapuwaeroa 1A 2B; thence in a south-westerly direction by the south-eastern boundaries of Tapuwaeroa 1A 2C, 1A 2D, 1A 2E, to the centre of the Mangapohue Stream; thence up the centre of that stream and by the south-eastern boundary of Tapuwaeroa 1A 2F by the eastern boundary of Lot 1 of Section 2 and the southern boundary of Lot 2 of Section 2, Block IV, Hikurangi Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction by the south-western boundary of Tapuwaeroa 2B to Trigonometrical Station Hikurangi; thence by a right line in a westerly direction passing through Forest Reserve to the junction of the Mangatutaro and Mangatiko Streams in Block II, Hikurangi Survey District, on the eastern boundary of the Opotiki County; thence in a north-easterly direction by the eastern boundary of the aforesaid Opotiki County to Trigonometrical Station Pakira on the southern boundary of the Matakaoa County and following the description as contained in New Zealand Statutes, 1919, page 302; thence in an easterly direction by the southern boundary of the Matakaoa County to the point of commencement, and following the description as contained in New Zealand Gazette, 1925, Vol. III, Fourth Schedule, page 2609.