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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

REGULATIONS.

1. FALLOW-DEER bucks may be taken or killed within the Wanganui Acclimatization District from the 1st day of April, 1918, to the 15th day of May, 1918, both days inclusive.

2. Licenses to take or kill such deer may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, on payment of a license fee of £1, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations. The number of such licenses shall not exceed thirty; provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

3. No licensee shall take or kill more than two bucks, and no buck shall be killed carrying antlers with less than four points.

4. No doe 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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 (bucks), of not less than
points, within the Wanganui 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.

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.

Regulations for Deer-shooting in the Counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South (Haurangi Reserve).

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “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 that part of the Wellington Acclimatization District comprised in the Counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South (excepting that portion of the said counties lying to the westward of the Wellington-Napier Railway line, and excepting also the area described in the First Schedule hereto), and further prescribing the conditions affecting such deer-shooting, the form of license, and the fee payable in respect thereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. RED-DEER stags and hinds may be taken or killed within that portion of the Wellington Acclimatization District hereinbefore described from the 29th March, 1918, to the 31st May, 1918 (both days inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill such deer may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, or by the Postmasters at Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Featherston, and Martinborough, on payment by the licensee of a license fee of £2. Not more than one such license shall be issued to any one person. Every such license shall be in the form in the Second Schedule hereto.

3. No licensee under these regulations shall take or kill more than four stags and six hinds, and no stag shall be taken or killed carrying antlers with less than ten points.

4. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant while stalking in the district to which his license relates.

5. Nothing in these regulations or in any license issued thereunder shall be deemed to authorize a licensee to take or kill any stag or hind in any part of the Wellington Acclimatization District other than that part to which these regulations apply, or in any other acclimatization district.

6. Regulations as to deer “tags,” per New Zealand Gazette No. 40, Vol. I, of 20th May, 1900, page 1408, shall be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition thereto, shall return all unused “tags” to the secretary of the Wellington Acclimatization Society, Wellington, 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.

7. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to authorize any person to sell any deer or any part thereof.

8. Every person who commits a breach of these regulations is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Excluded Area.

All that area of land in the Huangarua Survey District, in the Counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South, being Sections 29 to 41 (inclusive), 59, 71, 72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 87, and 84 (in the occupation of Mr. John Martin and Mr. Featherston Johnston, and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station).

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Red-deer Stags.

, of
, having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill four red-deer stags, of not less than ten points, and six hinds, within that part of the Wellington Acclimatization District described in the endorsement hereon, from the
, 1918, to the
, 1918 (both days inclusive). This license is issued subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and to the regulations thereunder in force within the said part of the Wellington Acclimatization District.

Dated at
this
day of
, 1918.

Chief Postmaster [or Postmaster].

ENDORSEMENT.

District to which License relates.

The Counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South, excepting therefrom all that part of the said counties lying to the westward of the Wellington-Napier Railway line, and excepting also all that area of land in the Huangarua Survey District, being Sections 29 to 41 (inclusive), 59, 71, 72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 87, and 84 (in the occupation of Mr. John Martin and Mr. Featherston Johnston, and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station).

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.

Kawakawa River and its Tributaries, Auckland Land District, notified under the Timber-floating Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of the Timber-floating Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the undermentioned stream and its tributaries may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.

THE Kawakawa River and its tributaries.

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

D. H. GUTHRIE,
For Minister of Lands.