APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1387

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game. License Fee, &c., Whangarei 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., cook pheasants—may be killed within the Whangarei Acclimatization District, comprising the County of Whangarei and part of the County of Otamatea (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, 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 the Postmasters at Whangarei, Waipu, Kamo, Maungakaramea, Whakapara, and Hikurangi are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

And I do further notify that the following native game—viz., grey duck—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 twelve, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, both days inclusive; and do hereby restrict the number of such native game that may be killed by any one person in any one day to not more than twenty-five head in all.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED AND 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 twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Certain Species of Birds indigenous to New Zealand not to be deemed protected.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of April, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, as amended by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby suspend the operation of section ten of the said Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, for the period commencing on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and ending on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, with respect to the species of birds indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the First Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth hereby suspend the operation of the said section for the period commencing on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and ending on the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, with respect to the bird indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto; provided, however, that the said birds shall not be taken or killed except in such districts and on such conditions as may be notified by the Governor under the said Acts.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Pukeko, teal, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, wild geese.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Paradise duck.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.