APRIL 17. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 959

Woodville, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Martinborough, Featherston, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Foxton, Otaki, Bull’s, Hunter ville, 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 Para-paraumu, 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.

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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, 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, City of Wellington, and Miramar.

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

ALBERT PITT.

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Postmasters at Whangarei, Waipu, and Hikurangi to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, cock pheasants—within the Whangarei District, consisting of the County of Whangarei and part of the County of Otamatea, to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound.

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

ALBERT PITT.

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Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1905.

THE attention of sportsmen, game-dealers, and others is called to the provisions of “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1889,” “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1895,” “The Animals Protection Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” and “The Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1903,” which are now in force. A digest of the chief of such provisions is subjoined, viz.:

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1889.

Section 4. No person shall kill, destroy, or shoot at any game or native game with anything but a shoulder-gun, and no such gun must exceed size No. 10 at muzzle, or be fitted with barrels exceeding 36 in. in length. No gun shall exceed 10 lb. in weight.

Any person offending against this provision is liable to a penalty not exceeding £10.

Section 5. No person shall sell any native game, or take or kill any native game for the purpose of sale, without previously taking out the required license.

Penalty not exceeding £20.

Section 6. No sale of native game shall take place except during the period within which such native game may be taken or killed.

If any person hold a license to sell game—i.e., imported game—he is not liable to pay a second fee on taking out a license to sell native game. But both licenses must be taken out if it is intended to sell both kinds of game.

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1895.”

Section 6. Section 12 of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” is repealed. No person can now sell game, or dispose thereof for any gain or reward, unless he be the holder of a license to sell such game.

Penalty not exceeding £20.

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1900.”

Section 3. No game or native game to be exported without the written consent of the Colonial Secretary, nor held in possession for a greater period than seven days after close of season, whether such game or native game be frozen, chilled, or not.

“THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AMENDMENT ACT, 1903.”

Section 2. Season for taking or killing native and imported game (other than deer and godwits), 1st May to 31st July.

Section 5. Fee for license to take or kill game (other than deer) to be £1.

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

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By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.

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