Mar. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 583

Shooting Season for Native Game, License-fee, &c., South Canterbury 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 native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the South Canterbury District, consisting of the Counties of Geraldine and Levels, and that portion of the County of Mackenzie lying to the east of a line commencing at Mount Cook and proceeding by a right line over the Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, thence along the western boundary of the Tasman Glacier to the Tasman River; thence by a line along the middle of that river and the middle of Lake Pukaki and the Middle of Pukaki River to the Waitaki River, together with the Boroughs of Timaru and Temuka, from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to sell native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Timaru is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Southland 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 hares may be taken or killed, by shooting or coursing, 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 the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to shoot or course hares 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 Invercargill is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting great kiwi (roa-roa), morepork owl (ruru), bittern, 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 nine hundred, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WITHIN WHICH GAME AND NATIVE GAME MAY NOT BE TAKEN OR KILLED.

1. RESOLUTION Island, off Dusky Sound.
2. Sections 41 and 42, Block VII., Jacob’s River Hundred.
3. The following blocks of land on the west side of the Oreti River, situated south of Oporo: namely, Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Block XVI., New River Hundred.
4. All that area in the Paterson Survey District, Stewart Island, containing about 1,200 acres, being a strip of land 10 chains in width, 5 chains on each side of Duck Creek, Paterson’s Inlet, extending from the mouth of the stream to the western boundary of Paterson Survey District, a distance of about a mile and a half.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Taranaki 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 Taranaki District, consisting of the Counties of Taranaki,

Clifton, and Stratford (excepting therefrom the reserve known as Mount Egmont Forest Reserve, being the area included within the circumference of a circle having a radius of six miles from the summit of the said Mount Egmont), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred, 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 the Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth, and the Postmasters at Stratford, Inglewood, Waitara, and Opunake, 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 said district, excepting therefrom the aforesaid Mount Egmont Forest Reserve, from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

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, Opotiki, and Whakatane, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred, 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.

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 nine hundred, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Waitaki-Waimate 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, Californian quail, and hares may be taken or killed within the Waitaki District—consisting of the Counties of Waitaki and Waimate, and that portion of the County of Mackenzie lying to the west of a line commencing at Mount Cook and proceeding by a right line over the Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, thence along the western boundary of the Tasman Glacier to the Tasman River, thence by a line along the middle of that river and the middle of Lake Pukaki and the middle of the Pukaki River to the Waitaki River, together with the Boroughs of Hampden, Oamaru, and Waimate—from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred, 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 Oamaru and the Postmaster at Waimate 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 nine hundred, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN.