THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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be proclaimed by the Superintendent, not exceeding | operation of this Act,) shall be hunted, shot, taken, or
four consecutive months in respect of each bird:
And whereas by "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," it is enacted, that all powers, duties, and
functions which immediately before the date of the
abolition thereunder of any Province were vested in
or to be exercised or performed by the Superinten-
dent of such abolished province should, on the day of
the date of the abolition of such province, and for
the purposes of the district included within such
abolished province, vest in and be exercised and per-
formed by the Governor:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of New Zealand, in
exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on
me by the said recited Acts, and in exercise of any
other power enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that game shall be open to be
hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the Provincial
District of Hawke's Bay, between the first day of
May, 1877, and the 31st day of July in the same
year, both inclusive, but only between the hours of
sunrise and sunset; and I do further proclaim and
declare that it shall be lawful to hunt, shoot, take, or
kill any native game in the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay during the months of April, May,
June, and July, 1877.

SCHEDULES.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Game.
PHEASANTS, partridges, grouse, black game, ptar-
migan, quails, snipe, plover, swans, hares, antelope,
deer, imported wild duck of any species.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Native Game.
Wild duck of any species, bittern, pied stilt
plover, wild geese, dotterell, tui, native pigeon, teal,
black stilt plover, curlew, quail.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"The Protection of Animals Act, 1873."

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section ten of "The Protection of
Animals Act, 1873," it is enacted that no game
(in the said Act defined as including the birds and
animals particularized in the First Schedule hereto,
and such other imported animals and birds as should
from time to time be proclaimed to come within the
killed in any province until the same shall have been
proclaimed as open for that purpose by a Procla-
mation in that behalf to be made and published in
the Gazette; and that no game shall be hunted, shot,
taken, or killed except within a consecutive period
not exceeding three months of any year to be fixed
by the Superintendent by Proclamation as aforesaid,
between the first day of May and the thirty-first day
of July, both inclusive, in any year, and only between
the hours of sunrise and sunset: And whereas by
the eleventh section of the said Act, it is enacted
that no native game (therein defined as including the
birds and animals in the fifth Schedule hereto, and
any other native animals and birds which should
from time to time be proclaimed to come within the
provisions relating to native game,) shall be hunted,
shot, taken, or killed in any part of the province
except during such months as may from time to time
be proclaimed by the Superintendent, not exceeding
four consecutive months in respect of each bird:
And whereas by "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," it is enacted, that all powers, duties, and
functions which immediately before the date of the
abolition thereunder of any province were vested in
or to be exercised or performed by the Superinten-
dent of such abolished province should, on the day of
the date of the abolition of such province, and for
the purposes of the district included within such
abolished province, vest in and be exercised and per-
formed by the Governor:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of New Zealand,
in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
on me by the said recited Acts, and in exercise of any
other power enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that game shall be open to be
hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the Provincial
District of Auckland between the twenty-first day of
May, 1877, and the 31st day of July, in the same year,
both inclusive, but only between the hours of sunrise
and sunset; and I do further proclaim and declare
that it shall be lawful to hunt, shoot, take, or kill
any native game in the Provincial District of Auck-
land during the months of April, May, June, and
July, 1877.

SCHEDULES.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Game.
PHEASANTS, partridges, grouse, black game, ptar-
migan, quails, snipe, plover, swans, hares, antelope,
deer, imported wild duck of any species.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Native Game.
Wild duck of any species, bittern, pied stilt
plover, wild geese, dotterell, tui, native pigeon, teal,
black stilt plover, curlew, quail.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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; and issued