Num. 24.

913

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1906.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1906.

Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1906.

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 Section 12 of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” is repealed.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.

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“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.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

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

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 Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Thames, and the Postmasters at Cambridge, Hamilton, Mercer, Papakura, Pukekohe, and Coromandel, to sign and issue licenses to take or kill imported game—namely, cock pheasants, and Californian and Australian quail—within the Auckland District, consisting of the Counties of Rodney, Waitemata, Manukau, Coromandel, Thames, Ohinemuri, Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Piako, Rotorua, Kawhia, Awakino, Waitomo, and Taupo West (excepting the areas described in the Schedule hereto), to any person on the payment of the sum of one pound.

SCHEDULE.

1. ALL that area in the County of Waitemata bounded on the north by the Wairau Creek from its mouth to the main road from Devonport to Waiwera; on the west by the said road to its junction with the Sea View Road; on the south by that road to the sea; and on the east by the sea to the point of departure.

2. Little Barrier Island, Hauturu, Auckland (see New Zealand Gazette No. 104, of the 14th December, 1899, page 2266).

3. Hen and Chickens Islands.

4. The whole of the area comprised in the County of Eden.