MAR. 23.]

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Waitaki.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Animals Protection Act, 1880," and the Acts amending the same (hereinafter called "the said Acts"), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations respecting the deer-shooting season within the Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District.

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Waitaki and Waimate Acclimatisation District will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Oamaru, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Waitaki and Waimate Acclimatisation Society, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Acts and these regulations. 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.
2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill fallow deer (bucks only) as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 15th March, 1905, to the 29th April, 1905, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 1st April, 1905, to the 31st May, 1905. Ball cartridge only to be used.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer, or portion thereof.

SCHEDULE.
No.
License to take or kill Game (Deer).
£ , having this day paid the sum of , is hereby authorised to take or kill deer (bucks or stags only) of not less than points within the District of , from the day of , 1905, to the day of , 1905 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of "The Animals Protection Act, 1880," and the amendments thereof.

Dated at , this day of , 190 .
AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fencourt Drainage District, Counties of Waikato and Piako, constituted.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, situated partly in the County of Waikato and partly in the County of Piako, have presented

a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act;
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of "The Land Drainage Act, 1904," and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the "Fencourt Drainage District"; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five members, to be elected under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
FENCOURT DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 156, Tamahere Parish, to its easternmost corner; thence by the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 157, Tamahere Parish, to the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 337, Hautapu Parish; thence by the north-western boundary-line of the said Section No. 337 to Pukemoremore Trig. Station; thence by the Karokaro, Pukehinau, Kiwitahi No. 3A, and Kaipaka Blocks to the north-eastern corner of Te Miro Block; thence towards the south-east generally by the Maungakawa Block to the road intersecting the said Maungakawa Block; thence by that road and the road intersecting the Maunganui Block to the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 337, Hautapu Parish; thence by lines so as to include the said Section No. 337 to the south-western corner of that section; thence by the road forming the south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 295, 296, 225, 226, and 227; thence by the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 227 and 220, Hautapu Parish, to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned section; thence towards the south-west generally by the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 215, 214, and 213, by the road forming the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 213 and 212, and by the road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 206 and 204, to the southernmost corner of Section No. 320; thence by the said Section No. 320 to the road forming its north-eastern boundary; thence by a line across that road; and thence by that road and the road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 319, 318, 317, 316, 315, and 313, the road forming the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 313 and 314, and the road forming the south-western boundary of Section No. 337, to the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 165; thence by the said road to the southern boundary of Section No. 157; and thence by the southern and south-western boundaries of the said Section No. 157 to the southernmost corner of Section No. 156, the place of commencement.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Recreation Reserve in Auckland Land District brought under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of March, 1905.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserves for recreation in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of "The Public Domains Act, 1881"; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 4, Block XXII., Town of Paeroa. Commencing at a point on the southern side of Arney Street, the said point being dis.