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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Protection of
Animals Act, 1867," it is enacted that no native
game shall be hunted, shot, taken or killed in any
part of the Colony except during the months of
April, May, June, and July in each year. And
whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time,
by proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, to declare that all or any of the provisions
of the said Act relating to native game shall not be
in force in such parts of the Colony as he shall in
and by such proclamation define:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in me vested in that behalf by the above-recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions
of "The Protection of Animals Act, 1867," relating
to native game, shall not be in force within the
Tauranga, Maketu, and Opotiki Districts, as the
same districts are defined in a schedule to a
proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven, constituting districts to be called Resident
Magistrates' Districts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Public Seal of the Colony, this seven-
teenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

J. C. RICHMOND.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by virtue of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Native Lands Act, 1867," the Governor may, at his
discretion, refer to the Native Lands Court the
claim of any person to or any question affecting
the title to or interest of any such person in land
within the boundaries described in the second
Schedule to the said Act, being the boundaries
described in a certain Deed of Sale to the Crown,
bearing date the thirteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and expressed
to be a conveyance by Natives entitled to land within
the district excepted from the operation of "The
Native Lands Act, 1865," by section eighty-two
thereof; provided that no claim by and no question
relating to the title or interest of any Native who
shall have signed the said Deed of Sale shall be so
referred:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers
vested in me in that behalf, do hereby refer to the
Native Lands Court the claims which are named in
the Schedule hereunto attached, being claims for
lands within the boundaries aforesaid of Natives who
have not signed the said Deed of Sale.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.

J. C. RICHMOND.