Num. 29.

1265

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1911.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1911.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Auckland Acclimatization District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., cock pheasants and Californian and Australian quail—may be killed within the Auckland Acclimatization District, comprising the Counties of Rodney, Waitemata, Eden, Manukau, Coromandel, Thames, Ohinemuri, Piako, Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Kawhia, Awakino, Waitomo, and Ohura, and that part of each of the Counties of Matamata and West Taupo lying north of a right line extending south-westerly from the summit of Puwhenua Mountain, at the easternmost corner of Matamata County, to the summit of Rangitoto Mountain (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, both days inclusive. And I do further 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 each.

And I do further notify that the following native game—viz., grey duck, spoonbill duck, teal, native pigeon, and pukeko—may be killed within the above-mentioned district (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto) from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, both days inclusive; and that the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Thames, and the Postmasters at Cambridge, Hamilton, Mercer, Papakura, Pukekohe, Whitianga, Cabbage Bay, and Coromandel, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED AND NATIVE GAME SHALL NOT BE KILLED.

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. All those areas at Waitakerei, Nihotapu, and Huia, in the County of Waitemata, vested in or under the control of the Auckland City Council for the purposes of waterworks, recreation, or the conservation of the native flora and fauna.

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

4. Hen and Chickens Islands.

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

6. The Rangiriri (or Karaka) Lake, Waikato.

7. The Auckland Acclimatization Society’s hatchery and game-farm at Tapapa, near Okoroire, including a radius of a mile in all directions therefrom.

8. 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 fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.