Mar. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 657

of New Zealand, do hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be shot and killed within the boundaries of the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, subject to the following regulations and restrictions, namely :—

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, except within the area hereinafter described, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society. For every such license to kill red deer a fee of £3 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed. And for every such license to kill fallow deer a fee of £2 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four bucks under or by virtue of such license, and no buck with less than eight points shall be killed.

An additional license to kill red deer may be issued to any person at a fee of £5, and no holder of such additional license shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed.

The said Chief Postmaster is hereby appointed and authorised to issue and sign the said licenses.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill fallow deer (bucks only), as provided in Regulation No. 1, from the 15th March, 1899, to the 30th April, 1899, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1, from the 1st April, 1899, to the 31st May, 1899. Ball-cartridge only to be used.

3. No doe, hind, or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever, and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him.

4. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

6. No deer shall be shot within an area containing about 24,800 acres in one block, being parts of the Mid-Hawea, Longslip, Lower Hawea, and Lindis Districts, plans of which area will be issued by the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society to persons to whom licenses to shoot deer are granted.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Bay of Islands District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and quail may be taken or killed within the Bay of Islands District, consisting of the Counties of Bay of Islands, Hokianga, Whangaroa, and Mongonui, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 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 Postmasters at Rawene, Whangaroa, Kaitaia, Russell, Kohukohu, Kaikohe, Kawakawa, Mongonui, and Ohaeawai are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

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

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

T. THOMPSON.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants may be taken or killed within the Whangarei District, consisting of the Counties of Whangarei, Hobson, and Otamatea, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 ten shillings and sixpence each; and the Postmasters at Whangarei, Waipu, Hikurangi, Mangaturoto, Paparoa, Pahi, Matakoe, Dargaville, Te Kopuru, Aratapu, and Tokatoka are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

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

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

T. THOMPSON.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and Californian and Australian quail may be taken or killed within the Auckland District—consisting of the Counties of Rodney, Waitemata, Eden, Manukau, Coromandel, Thames, Ohinemuri, Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Piako, Rotorua, Kawhia, and Taupo West; excepting the islands known as the Little Barrier and the Hen and Chickens, and that portion of the Lake Road District, County of Waitemata, bounded on the north by the Wairau Creek from its mouth to the main road from Devonport to Waiwera, on the west by the said road to its junction with the Seaview Road, on the south by that road to the sea, and on the east by the sea to the point of departure—from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 Postmasters at Auckland and Thames, and the Postmasters at Cambridge, Dargaville, Mercer, Papakura and Pukekohe, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district, except in the portions thereof hereinbefore described, from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

T. THOMPSON.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the Tauranga District, consisting of the Counties of Tauranga and Whakatane, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 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 Postmasters at Tauranga and Opotiki are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.