APRIL 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1221

Egmont, and all lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game.

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Shooting Season for Native Game, Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District (Waitaki Branch).

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt from the operation of section twenty-six of the said Act that portion of the Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District comprising the County of Waitaki; and do notify that the following native game—namely, grey duck—may be killed within the said portion of the said Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten, to the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten, both days inclusive.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN NATIVE GAME SHALL NOT BE KILLED.

LAKE Ohau and its watershed, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 10, of the 6th February, 1902, page 240; and all lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game.

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Shooting Season for Native Game, Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District (Waimate Branch).

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt from the operation of section twenty-six of the said Act that portion of the Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District comprising 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; and do notify that the following native game—namely, black swan and grey duck—may be killed within the said portion of the said Waitaki-Waimate Acclimatisation District (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten, to the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten, both days inclusive.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN NATIVE GAME SHALL NOT BE KILLED.

ALL lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game.

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

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Shooting Season for Imported Game, Wellington Acclimatisation District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt from the operation of section twenty-six of the said Act

the Wellington Acclimatisation District; and do notify that the following imported game—namely, hares and Californian quail—may be killed within the said Wellington Acclimatisation District, described in the First Schedule hereto (except in the areas mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto), from the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten, to the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten, both days inclusive; and I do also notify that licenses to kill such imported game within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Palmerston North, Sanson, Mangaweka, *Taihape, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Martinborough, Featherston, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Petone, Foxton, Otaki, Bull’s, Hunter-ville, and Marton, are hereby authorised to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-west and north generally by the Counties of Wanganui, Waimarino, and East Taupo from the mouth of the Wangaehu River to the Rangitikei River; thence towards the east generally by the County of Hawke’s Bay and the summit of the Ruahine 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 Dannevirke, Woodville, and Weber 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, Makara, 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, Levin, Lower Hutt, Marton, Masterton, Melrose, Onslow, Palmerston North, Pahiatua, Petone, City of Wellington, Eastbourne, Miramar, and Taihape.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED GAME SHALL NOT BE KILLED.

THE Wainui Forest Reserve, near Paraparaumu, Akatarawa Survey District, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the 19th day of February, 1903; or within the area in the Haurangi, Waipawa, and Kaiwaka Survey Districts, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the 19th day of February, 1903; or within the area known as the “mallard district,” near Martinborough, described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the 9th day of April, 1896; 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 6th day of February, 1902; or in the Horowhenua Lake Reserve, as defined by “The Horowhenua Lake Act, 1905”; or upon Sections 36, 37, and 38 of the Ngarara West A Block, County of Horowhenua, comprising about 775 acres, and including the whole of the Totara Lake and portion of the Kawhakahia Lake; or upon Sections 86, 87, 88 (and part of a closed road), 211, 266, and 267, and part of Section 89, Hutt District, part of which is owned and occupied by John Barton, Trentham, and the remainder is occupied as golf-links by the Wellington Golf Club, containing about 670 acres; or within that area, containing 154 acres, being Section No. 374, and part of Sections Nos. 372 and 373, Palmerston North, the said area being owned and occupied by Charlotte Sarah Slack; or within that area, containing 296 acres, at Longburn, being Sections Nos. 18, 20, and 21, Kairanga Survey District, the said area being owned and occupied by William Edward Arthur Slack and John Upton Gaskell Slack; or within that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 195 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, and known as the Petone Waterworks Reserve; or within that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 209 acres 2 roods 29 perches, more or less, being Section No. 273, Block IV, Arawaru Survey District, and known as the Waterworks Reserve, Palmerston North; or within that piece or parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 39 acres 2 roods 10 perches, more or less, being portion of Rural Section No. 1536 on the plan of the Borough of Palmerston North, and known as the Esplanade; or within that area in the Wellington Land District, at Foxton, containing by admeasurement about 1,500 acres, situated in Block III, Mou-