436 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 13

the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £4 for the Hunter Valley, Dingle, Hawea Flat, and Makarora districts; and £3 for the Greenvale, Wart Hill, Upper Pomahaka, and Whitecomb districts; and licenses to take or kill fallow-deer bucks may be issued by the said Chief Postmaster and the Postmaster at Tapanui, upon a like recommendation, on payment of a license fee of £2; such licensee to be issued in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations.

4. No licensee shall take or kill more than four red-deer stags in the Hunter Valley, Dingle, Hawea Flat, or Makarora districts, nor more than two red-deer stags in the Greenvale, Wart Hill, Upper Pomahaka, and Whitecomb districts, nor more than 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.

5. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster or the Postmaster at Tapanui 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. 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.

7. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or any 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 Otago Acclimatization Society 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area known as the Greenvale, Wart Hill, Upper Pomahaka, and Whitecomb districts.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Game (Deer).

No. , of , having this day paid the sum of £ , 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. , District , from the day of , 1920, to the day of , 1920 (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 , 1920.

........................ Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Lakes District.

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 Lakes District 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 Lakes District Acclimatization District from the 1st day of April, 1920, to the 21st day of May, 1920 (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).

No. , 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 , 1920, to the day of , 1920 (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 , 1920.

........................ Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Nelson.

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 Nelson Acclimatization District, comprising the Waimea, Takaka, Collingwood, and Murchison Counties, and part of the Inangahua County of present date, bounded towards the north-west and north-east generally by Tasman Sea, Golden Bay, and Tasman Bay from Kohaihai Bluff, in Block XIII, Whakapoai Survey District, to a point on shore of Croiselles Harbour due west of the westernmost point of Elaine or Brown's Bay; thence towards the north by a right line running due east to said westernmost point of that bay, and by southern shore of that bay to its south head; thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to Trig. Station Y (boundary trig.), and by a line along the summit of the range over Mount McLaren, Editor Peak, Mount Duppa, and Saddle Hill to the source of the Heringa Stream; thence by a line down the middle of that stream to its confluence with the Pelorus River; thence by a line up the middle of the Pelorus River to its source near Red Hills; thence by a right line to the summit; thence by a line along the summit of the range over Mount Rintoul and Bush Cone to the summit of Wairau Pass; thence by a right line to Trig. Station Top 2 (Mangatawai); thence by a line along the summit of St. Arnaud Range and the summit of the Spencer Mountains; thence towards the south-west