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prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations; provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

3. No licensee shall take or kill more than six stags, and no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than six points.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 Nelson Acclimatization Society, Nelson, 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. 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 or stags), of not less than points, within the Nelson Acclimatization District, from the day of , 1922, to the day of , 1922 (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 , 1922.

Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General 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 may be taken or killed within the Otago Acclimatization District, in the Hunter Valley, Dingle, Hawea Flat, and Makarora districts from the Ist day of April, 1922, to the 20th day of May, 1922 (both days inclusive), and in the Greenvale, Wart Hill, Upper Pomahaka, and Whitecomb districts from the 24th day of March, 1922, to the 13th day of May, 1922 (both days inclusive). In both districts stalkers are only authorized to shoot on the blocks specified in their respective licenses.

2. Fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the said district, except in the areas described in the First Schedule hereto, from the Ist day of April, 1922, to the 15th day of May, 1922 (both days inclusive).

3. 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 £5 for the Hunter Valley, Dingle, Hawea Flat, and Makarora districts, and £4 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, Dunedin, and the Postmaster at Tapanui, upon a like recommendation, on payment of a license fee of £2; such licenses 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 two 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.

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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. No person other than the license-holder, whether accompanying the license-holder or not, will be allowed to carry a rifle on the shooting blocks during the season as authorized by these regulations.

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. 1, 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.

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

SECOND 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 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 , 1922, to the day of , 1922 (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 , 1922.

Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Otago Acclimatization District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game -viz., mallard duck (English wild duck)-may be killed within the Otago Acclimatization District as described hereunder (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto) from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, both days inclusive; and Californian quail may be killed in the said district described hereunder (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto) from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, both days inclusive:-

All that area in the Otago and Southland Districts comprising the Counties of Vincent, Maniototo, Waihemo, Waikouaiti, Taieri, Peninsula, Tuapeka, Bruce, Clutha, and part of the County of Southland. Bounded on the east and south by the ocean from Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura River, on the west by the Mataura River and the County of Lake, on the north-west by the County of Westland, and on the north-east by the County of Waitaki; including the City of Dunedin and the boroughs within the above-described area (excepting therefrom the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto).

And I do also notify that licenses to kill such imported game within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings; and the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin and the Postmasters at Alexandra, Clyde, Cromwell, and Roxburgh are hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

And I do hereby restrict the number of mallard duck that may be killed by any one person in any one day to not more than twelve head in all.