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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

Coursing Season for Hares, and Shooting Season for Native Game, License-fee, &c., Southland District.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that hares may be taken or killed by coursing only within the Southland District, consisting of so much of the County of Southland as lies to the westward of the Mataura River, together with the Counties of Fiord, Wallace, and Stewart Island, excepting therefrom Resolution Island, off Dusky Sound, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to course hares 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 Invercargill is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting morepork owl (ruru), bittern, tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL.

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

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the Cook County District, consisting of the Counties of Cook and Waiapu, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of ten 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 Gisborne is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting native pigeon, tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL.

Trustees for the Nuhaka North Public Cemetery appointed.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Trustee for the South Malvern Public Cemetery.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM JOHN BAXTER

to be a Trustee, in the place of Arthur Langford Joseph, to provide for the maintenance and care of the South Malvern Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed by warrants under the hand of his Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
ROBERT CHARLES BLACK .. Riverton.
GEORGE WILLIAM WOODS .. Mahurangi.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Commissioner, Native Land Court, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT LOFTUS STANFORD, Esq., S.M.,

to be a Commissioner of the Native Land Court.

R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.

Sub-Commissioner, Native Land Court, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

JOHN BROOKING,

of Gisborne, to be a Sub-Commissioner of the Native Land Court.

R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.