APRIL 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1395

Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th April, 1914.

THE attention of sportsmen, game-dealers, and others is called to the following provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910 :—

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT, 1908.

Section 36.—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. No gun shall exceed 10 lb. in weight.

Any person offending against this provision is liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

Section 19.—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. Fee £2. Penalty not exceeding £10.

Section 21.—No sale of imported or native game shall take place prior to 1st June.

If any person holds 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.

Section 31.—No imported game or native game to be exported without the written consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Section 3.—Season for taking or killing native and imported game (other than deer and godwits), 1st May to 31st July.

Section 10.—Fee for license to take or kill imported game (other than deer) to be £1.

Section 30.—No imported or native game, whether chilled or otherwise, to be held in possession for a greater period than seven days after close of season.

THE ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT, 1910.

Section 2.—Use of cylinders prohibited.

Section 10.—Every person who destroys or injures or captures any bird which is indigenous to New Zealand, or who robs or destroys the nest of any such bird, is liable to a fine not exceeding £20.

The following native game has been exempted from above provisions during shooting season: Pukeko, teal, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, and wild geese.

STATEMENT SHOWING THE KINDS OF GAME WHICH MAY BE KILLED IN EACH DISTRICT.

Acclimatization District. Imported and Native Game.
Ashburton .. Grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Auckland .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Bay of Islands .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Buller .. Hares, pukeko, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Canterbury .. Californian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck, pukeko, and black swan.
Coromandel .. Cock pheasants, grey duck, spoonbill duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
East Coast.. .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Feilding and district Cock pheasants, quail, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Grey district .. Hares, grey duck, spoonbill duck, pukeko, teal, and black swan.
Hawera .. Cock pheasants, quail, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Hawke’s Bay .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Hobson .. Cock pheasants, grey duck, spoonbill duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Lake County .. Quail, grey duck, and black swan.
Mangonui–Whangaroa Cock pheasants, Australian quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.

Marlborough .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan.
Nelson .. Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan.
Otago .. Californian quail, grey duck, pukeko, teal (except black teal), and black swan.
Rotorua .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
South Canterbury .. Grey duck, teal, black swan, and wild geese.
Southland .. Hares, grey duck, spoonbill duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Stratford .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Taranaki .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Tauranga .. Cock pheasants, quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Waimarino .. Cock pheasants, quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Waitaki–Waimate—
Waitaki Branch .. Grey duck, and black swan.
Waimate Branch .. Grey duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Wanganui .. Cock pheasants, quail, grey duck, teal, pukeko, and black swan.
Wellington.. .. Cock pheasants, quail, hares, grey duck, teal, and black swan.
Westland .. Grey duck and black swan.

NOTE.—Not more than twenty-five head of native game and not more than twelve cock pheasants may be killed by any one person in any one day in any district.

CLOSE SEASON.

A close season has been declared in Whangarei and Opotiki Acclimatization Districts, and no imported or native game may therefore be shot in such districts this year.

SALE OF NATIVE AND IMPORTED GAME.

The game named hereunder may be sold in the districts mentioned as from 1st June, 1914. License fee, £2.

Acclimatization District Imported and Native Game.
Coromandel .. Cock pheasants.
Lake County .. Quail and grey duck.
Tauranga .. Cock pheasants and quail.
Wellington.. .. Hares.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this third day of April, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY 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 fourteen, and ending on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, with respect to the species of birds indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

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

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

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.