Feb. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 611

the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Lakes District Acclimatization District, and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.

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REGULATIONS.

1. RED-DEER stags may be taken or killed within the Lakes District Acclimatization District from the 1st day of April, 1918, to the 21st day of May, 1918 (both days inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill red-deer stags may be issued by the Postmaster, Queenstown, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Lakes District Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £4 in the area described in the First Schedule hereto, and on payment of a license fee of £5 in the area described in the Second Schedule hereto; such licenses to be issued in the form prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations.

3. No licensee shall take or kill more than four red-deer stags, and no red-deer stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points. Ball cartridge only to be used.

4. The licensee must give notice to the said Postmaster 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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 Lakes District Acclimatization Society, Queenstown, immediately he has finished stalking for the season for which such “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the number of deer shot.

8. 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 known as Aspiring, Upper Wanaka, Wilkin, and Matukituki Districts.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

All that area known as Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn, and Dart Valleys.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorized to take or kill four red-deer (stags), of not less than ten points, within that part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District known as [Aspiring, Upper Wanaka, Wilkin, and Matukituki Districts], and within that part known as [Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn, and Dart Valleys], from the day of , 1918, to the day of , 1918 (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 , 1918.

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Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twentieth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

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Regulations for Deer-shooting, Waitaki.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Waitaki Acclimatization District, comprising all that area in the Canterbury and Otago Land Districts bounded towards the north-west by the summit of the Southern Alps from the north-eastern corner of Vincent County to Mount Cook; thence towards the north-east by a right line over Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, by the western side of the Tasman Glacier to the Tasman River, by a line along the middle of that river and through the middle of Lake Pukaki to and along the middle of the Pukaki River and the middle of the Waitaki River to the sea; towards the east by the sea to Waihemo County; and towards the south-west and west by Waihemo, Maniototo, and Vincent Counties to the summit of the Southern Alps, the place of commencement; and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.

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REGULATIONS.

1. RED-DEER stags may be taken or killed within the Waitaki Acclimatization District from the 1st day of April, 1918, to the 20th day of May, 1918 (both days inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill such deer may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Oamaru, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Waitaki Acclimatization Society, at Oamaru, on payment of a license fee of £3, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and the regulations made thereunder.

3. No licensee shall take or kill more than four stags, and no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points. Ball cartridge only to be used.

4. An additional license to take or kill red-deer stags may be issued to any person at a fee of £2, and no holder of such additional license shall take or kill more than two stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points. Ball cartridge only to be used.

5. No 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.

6. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster 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. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

8. 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 Waitaki Acclimatization Society, at Oamaru, immediately he has finished stalking for the season for which such “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the number of deer shot.

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

SCHEDULE.

No. License to take or kill Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorized to take or kill deer (stags), of not less than points, within the Waitaki Acclimatization District, from the day of , 1918, to the day of , 1918 (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 , 1918.

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Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twentieth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Regulations for Deer-shooting, Wanganui.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Wanganui Acclimatization District, comprising the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.