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mokonui Stream to Pohokina Mountain; thence by a line running due east to the Pukahunui Stream; thence by the leading spur and the western watershed of the Te Hoe River to Maungataniwha Trig. Station; and thence by the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block to the place of commencement.

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

C. H. MILLS.

Officer for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Waitaki-Waimate District (Waimate), appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Postmaster at Waimate to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, cock pheasants and Californian quail—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 to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound.

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

C. H. MILLS.

Officer for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, County of Waitaki, appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Chief Postmaster at Oamaru to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, hares—within the County of Waitaki, excepting that area described in the Schedule hereto, to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound.

SCHEDULE.

LAKE Ohau and its watershed, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 10, of the 6th February, 1902, page 240.

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

C. H. MILLS.

Officers for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Wanganui District, appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, and the Postmasters at Waverley, Waitotara, Fordell, and Mangamahu, to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, cock pheasants and quail—within the Wanganui District, consisting of the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. G. WARD.

Officers for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Wellington District, appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint 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, to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, cock pheasants and Californian quail—within the Wellington Acclimatisation District, as described in the Schedule hereto, and hares within the said district, excepting therefrom the County of Pahiatua, to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound; and also to sign and issue to any person licenses to sell native and imported game within the said district on payment of the sum of five pounds:

Provided that neither native nor imported game shall be taken or killed within the Wainui Forest Reserve, near Paraparaumu, Akatarawa Survey District, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, or within the area in the Haurangi, Waipawa, and Kaiwaka Survey Districts described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, or within the area known as the “mallard district,” near Martinborough, 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, or upon Lake Hokowhitu or Te Ngutu Lagoon and the area adjacent thereto, situated in the Borough of Palmerston North, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 10, of the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two.

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, Featherston, Castlepoint, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Akitio, Horowhenua, Kairanga, 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-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four.

C. H. MILLS.

Officer for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Westland District, appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Chief Postmaster at Hokitika to sign and issue to any person licenses to sell native game within the Westland District, consisting of the County of Westland (excepting Lake Kanieri and Lake Mahinapua and the road reserve around the shore of the said Mahinapua Lake, and Mahinapua Creek and the road reserves on either side of the said creek), on payment of the sum of five pounds.

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

C. H. MILLS.

Officers for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Whangarei District, appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Postmasters at Whangarei, Waipu, and Hikurangi to sign and issue licenses

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