Feb. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 329

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Nelson District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red-deer stags and fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the Nelson District, comprising the Counties of Waimea, Buller, and Collingwood, from the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six bucks or stags, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Nelson and the Postmaster at Westport are hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., County of Wairarapa South.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red deer (stags only) may be taken or killed within the County of Wairarapa South (excepting therefrom the area described in the Schedule hereto) from the seventh day of April to the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on the payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, and Featherston are hereby appointed to issue the said licenses; and I do further notify that the said licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued subject to the following conditions, namely:—

1. That no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than three stags.

2. That no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than eight points.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Huangarua Survey District, in the County of Wairarapa South, being Sections 29 to 41, inclusive, 59, 71, 72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 89, 92, 91, 94, 95, 96, 87, and 84, now in the occupation of Mr. John Martin, and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Marlborough District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, comprising the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, from Saturday, the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to Monday, the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six bucks or stags, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Blackbirds may be killed in the Wellington Acclimatisation District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and after the date hereof, the imported birds known as blackbirds (Turdus merula) may be taken or killed in the Wellington Acclimatisation District, consisting of the Counties of Hutt, Wairarapa North, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Horowhenua, Kiwitea, Oroua, Pohangina, and Manawatu, together with all town districts and boroughs therein.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Marlborough District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that Californian quail and hares may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, consisting of the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds (except in the Wairau Lagoons and Lake Grassmere), from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further notify that native game, excepting native pigeon, tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the said district (except in the Wairau Lagoons and Lake Grassmere) during the period between the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, both inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Extension of Period for Election of Board of Conciliation for the Northern Industrial District.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” it is, inter alia, enacted that Boards of Conciliation shall be elected for the respective industrial districts, but that the Governor may from time to time extend the period within which any such election shall be held: Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby extend the period within which the election of the Board of Conciliation for the Northern Industrial District may be held until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by a majority of the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Native Land Court certificate of title bearing date the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the fifty-second section of “The Native