Mar. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 777

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., County of Waitaki.

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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 County of Waitaki from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

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

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

J. G. WARD.

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Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Waitaki-Waimate District (Waimate).

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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 that portion of Waitaki-Waimate District consisting of the County of 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, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 Postmaster at Waimate is hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further notify that native game, excepting native pigeon, pukeko, kaka, tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

J. G. WARD.

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

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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 Wanganui District, consisting of the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, and the Postmasters at Waverley and Waitotara, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

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

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

J. G. WARD.

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

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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 Wellington Acclimatisation District, as described in the Schedule hereto, and that hares may be taken or killed within the said district, excepting therefrom the County of Pahiatua, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 Wellington, and the Postmasters at Palmerston North, Sandon, Woodville, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Martinborough, Featherston, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Foxton, Otaki, Bull’s, Hunterville, and Marton, are hereby appointed to sign and issue such licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting kaka, native pigeon, pukeko, tui, huia, white heron, crested grebe, paradise ducks, and blue mountain-ducks, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, both days inclusive.

Provided that neither native nor imported game shall be taken or killed within that portion of Wainui Forest Reserve, near Paraparaumu, Akatarawa Survey District, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 24, of the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, or within the area known as the “mallard district,” near Martinborough, in the County of Wairarapa South, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, or upon the area known as the Lansdowne Dam, near Masterton, or upon the Island of Kapiti, in the Kapiti Survey District, Land District of Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-west and north generally by the Counties of Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay from the mouth of the Wangaehu River to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence towards the east generally by the summit of that range to the Feilding and District Acclimatisation District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 38, 4th May, 1899; thence towards the south-west, south-east, and north-east generally by that district and the Counties of Waipawa and Patangata to the sea at the mouth of the Waimata River; and thence again towards the south-east, south, and west generally by the sea to the Wangaehu River aforesaid, including adjacent islands (excepting Kapiti). The aforesaid area comprises the Counties of Hutt, Masterton, Castlepoint, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Akitio, Horowhenua, and Rangitikei, and parts of the Counties of Manawatu and Oroua, together with the Boroughs of Carterton, Foxton, Greytown, Karori, Lower Hutt, Marton, Masterton, Melrose, Onslow, Palmerston North, Pahiatua, Petone, and City of Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

J. G. WARD.

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Shooting Season for Native Game, License-fee, &c., Westland District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animal 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