✨ Deer Shooting Regulations
Mar. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 585
REGULATIONS.
- 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.
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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, 1900, to the 30th April, 1900, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1, from the 1st April, 1900, to the 31st May, 1900. Ball-cartridge only to be used.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.
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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 thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.
J. G. WARD.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🌾 Regulations for Deer Shooting in Otago District
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources13 March 1900
Deer Shooting, Bucks, Stags, Otago, Acclimatisation Society, Regulations, Licensing, Chief Postmaster
- J. G. Ward
- John Mackay, Government Printer