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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 25

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Nelson 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 quail may be taken or killed within the Nelson District, consisting of the Counties of Waimea and Collingwood, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 Nelson is 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 abovementioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both days inclusive.

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

J. G. WARD.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., North 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 hares, cock pheasants, and quail may be taken or killed within the North Canterbury District, consisting of the Counties of Cheviot, Ashley, Akaroa, and Selwyn, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 Christchurch is 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 abovementioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both days inclusive.

And I do also declare that no cylinder or box exceeding two feet six inches in depth shall be used for the purpose of taking or killing wild duck or other native or imported game on any lake or stream in the above-mentioned district.

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

J. G. WARD.

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 first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two.

J. G. WARD.

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 and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 aforementioned Mount Egmont Forest Reserve, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both days inclusive.

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

J. G. WARD.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Wairoa Acclimatisation 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 Wairoa Acclimatisation District, described in the Schedule hereto, excepting therefrom the area described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, page one thousand and sixteen, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 Wairoa and Mohaka 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 abovementioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both days inclusive.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay and Auckland Land Districts bounded towards the north generally by the Whakatane County from the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block to the watershed between the Te Waiotukapiti and Mangainuiohou Rivers; thence by that watershed to Whakatakaa Trig. Station; thence by the watershed between Waikaremoana and the Whakatane River over Huiarau and Maungapohatu and Manuaha Trig. Stations to the southern boundary of the Whakatane County; thence again by that county and by Cook County to the sea: thence towards the east and south-east generally by the sea to Moeangiangi: thence towards the south generally by the leading spur and the southern watershed of the Waikare River to Taraponui