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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 28

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Otago Acclimatization District, and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.

REGULATIONS.

1. RED-DEER stags may be taken or killed within the Otago Acclimatization District, except in the areas described in the First and Second Schedules hereto, from the 1st day of April, 1914, to the 20th day of May, 1914 (both days inclusive).

2. Fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the said district, except in the areas described in the First and Second Schedules hereto, from the 10th day of April, 1914, to the 15th day of May, 1914 (both days inclusive).

3. Red-deer stags may be taken or killed within that part of the said district described in the First Schedule hereto from the 1st day of April, 1914, to the 20th day of May, 1914 (both days inclusive), and in all that area described in the Second Schedule hereto from the 1st to the 15th day of April, 1914 (both days inclusive).

4. Licenses to take or kill red-deer stags may be issued by the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £4, and licenses to take or kill fallow-deer bucks may be issued by the said Chief Postmaster, upon a like recommendation, on payment of a license fee of £2; such licenses to be issued in the form prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations.

5. No licensee shall take or kill more than four red-deer stags or two fallow-deer bucks, and no red-deer stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points, and no fallow-deer buck shall be killed carrying antlers with less than fourteen points (on a palmate of less than 4 in.). Ball cartridge only to be used: Provided that not more than four red-deer stags shall be killed in the area described in the First Schedule hereto, and not more than two red-deer stags in the area described in the Second Schedule hereto.

6. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Post-master of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

7. No doe, hind, or fawn shall be taken or killed on any pretext whatever; and no licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him.

8. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

9. Regulations as to deer “tags,” per New Zealand Gazette No. 40, Vol. I, of 20th May, 1909, page 1408, shall be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition thereto, shall return all unused “tags” to the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society immediately he has finished stalking for the season for which such “tags” have been issued.

10. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area lying to the north of a line from Mount Pisa to the Town of St. Bathan's; thence bounded towards the west and north by the Lake and Westland Counties; thence towards the east by the Waitaki County to Dunstan Creek; thence by said creek to the Town of St. Bathan's.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

All that area known as the Greenvale, Wart Hill, and Whitecomb Districts.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum £ , is hereby authorized to take or kill deer (bucks or stags), of not less than ten points for red-deer stags, and fourteen points on palmate of not less than 4 in. for fallow-deer bucks, within the Otago Acclimatization District, upon Block No. , from the day of , 1914, to the day of , 1914 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and all regulations thereunder in force within the said district.

Dated at this day of , 1914.

Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

H. D. BELL,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

By Authority: JOHN MACKEY, Government Printer, Wellington.