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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

that native game, excepting kaka, native pigeon, pukeko,
tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or
killed within the Westland District, consisting of the County
of Westland (excepting Lake Mahinapua and the road
reserve around the shore of the said lake, and Mahinapua
Creek and the road reserves on either side of the said creek),
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 sell native game shall be
issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and
the Chief Postmaster at Hokitika is hereby appointed to
issue the said licenses.

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

J. G. WARD.

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, con-
sisting of the Counties of Whangarei, Hobson, and Otamatea,
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 restric-
tions 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 shil-
lings each; and the Postmasters at Whangarei, Waipu,
Hikurangi, Mangaturoto, Paparoa, Pahi, Matakoe, Darga-
ville, Te Kopuru, Aratapu, and Tokatoka are hereby ap-
pointed 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.

Warrant exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of
“The Mining Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twenty of “The Mining Act,
1898,” it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor
may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any
Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining
purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of
that Act; and that the lands to which any such notice
relates shall be specified therein by words of particular
description:

And whereas it is desirable that the lands specified in the
Schedule hereto should be exempted from mining, or from
any specified mining purpose, or from “The Mining Act,
1898,” or from any specified provisions of that Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and in exercise of the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act, and
of all powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in
that behalf, do hereby exempt the lands particularly de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto from mining, or from any
specified mining purpose, or from the operations of “The
Mining Act, 1898,” or from any specified provisions of the
said Act.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, con-
taining 27,000 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks XIV.,
XV., and XVI., Wangapeka Survey District, Blocks II.,
III., IV., VI., VII., VIII., X., XI., XII., XIV., XV., and
XVI., Tadmor Survey District, and Blocks III. and IV.,
Howard Survey District. Commencing at a point on the
south-eastern boundary of Section 10, Block XIV., Wanga-
peka Survey District, where it is intersected by the summit
of the range, and following that boundary north-easterly to
the south-western corner of Section 11: thence following
the south-western and south-eastern boundaries of Sec-
tion 12, Block XIV., the western boundaries of Sections 27,
28, and 17, and the northern boundary of Section 18, Block

XV., Wangapeka Survey District; and the northern, west-
ern, and southern boundaries of Section 19, Block XIV.,
Wangapeka Survey District; the western and southern
boundaries of Sections 148, Square 5, 45, and 16, the
western boundaries of Sections 17 and 46, the southern
boundaries of Sections 46, 23, 8, and 7, and the western bound-
aries of Sections 24 and 25, Block III., Tadmor Survey Dis-
trict; the western boundaries of Sections 1, 29, 28, 27, and
26, the north-western boundaries of Sections 25, 23, and 24,
Block VII., the north-western boundary of Section 38, Block
XI., the northern and western boundaries of Sections 19, 18,
12, 15, 14, 8, 11, and 17, and the south-western boundary of
the last-mentioned section, and the western and southern
boundaries of Sections 7 and 5, Block X., and the eastern
boundary of the latter section, the southern boundaries of
Sections 31, 29, 27, and 25, and the south-eastern bound-
aries of Sections 25, 24, 3, and 2, Block XI., the south-
eastern boundary of Section 11, Block XII., and the eastern
and north-eastern boundaries of Sections 6, 5, and 4, and the
eastern boundaries of Sections 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3, Block VII.,
the northern boundary of the latter section, and the eastern
and northern boundaries of Section 26, and the eastern
boundaries of Sections 133 and 130, Square 5, the southern,
eastern, and northern boundaries of Section 30, the eastern
boundaries of Sections 126 and 124, Square 5, the south-
western boundaries of Sections 20, 1, and 36, the south-
eastern boundary of Section 36, the north-eastern boundary
of Sections 36 and 2, Block III., Tadmor Survey District;
the south-eastern boundary of Section 16, the south-western
and south-eastern boundary of Section 6, the south-western
boundary of Section 5, the south-eastern boundary of Sec-
tions 35, 34, and 33, and the western boundaries of Section 94,
Square 5, Block XVI., Wangapeka Survey District; the
western and southern boundary of Section 64, Square 5, the
western boundaries of Sections 68, 65, and 66, Square 5, the
northern, western, and southern boundaries of Sections 6
and 7, the western boundary of Section 93, Square 5, the
northern and western boundary of Section 1, Block IV.,
Tadmor Survey District; the western and southern bound-
aries of Section 3, the north-western and south-western
boundaries of Sections 36 and 37, Square 5, the northern,
north-western, and southern boundaries of Sections 7 and 8,
the western boundaries of Sections 40, 42, 43, 44, and 70,
Square 5, all in Block VIII., the northern and western
boundary of Section 1, the western boundary of Section 2,
and the northern, western, and southern boundaries of Sec-
tion 3, Block XII., to the Clark River: thence following the
said river to its source: thence to the Hope Saddle: thence
in a north-westerly direction along the summit of the range
to Trig. E: and thence following the summit of the range
between the Dart and Sherry Rivers to the commencing-
point.

Also all that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District,
situated in Blocks XVI., Wangapeka Survey District, and
XIII., Wai-iti Survey District, containing 1,200 acres, more
or less, commencing at the north-eastern corner of Sec-
tion 10, Block XVI., Wangapeka Survey District: thence
following the southern boundary of Section 34, Square 6,
the western and southern boundary of Section 36, Square 6,
the western boundaries of Sections 87, 86, Square 5, and 60,
Upper Motueka, and the north-western boundaries of 57 and
56, Upper Motueka, the northern boundary of Section 94,
Square 5, the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of
Section 38, the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries
of Section 43, and the south-eastern boundaries of Sections
45, 46, and 10, Block XVI., Wangapeka Survey District, to
the commencing-point.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Declaring it unlawful to take Oysters in a Part of the
Southern Subdivision of Northern Oyster-fishery.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS it is, amongst other things, enacted by
section fifteen of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,”
that the Governor may from time to time declare any bay,
estuary, or tidal waters in the colony to be an oyster-fishery,
and prescribe the subdivisions thereof wherein it shall be
lawful and unlawful to take oysters:

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the Governor
dated the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month, the
Northern Oyster-fishery was constituted and divided into
subdivisions:

And whereas by Warrant dated the twelfth day of March
one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of the same