Num. 26.

1009

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922.

Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th April, 1922.

THE attention of sportsmen, game-dealers, and others is called to the following provisions of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT, 1921–22.

SECTION 6. (3.)—Every reserve under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, shall be deemed to be a sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

(4.) Every person who unlawfully takes or kills any animal within a sanctuary is liable to a fine of ten pounds for every such offence, and to a further fine of one pound for each animal so taken or killed.

Section 11. (1.) No imported or native game shall be trapped or taken by means of traps or by any other means than by hunting or shooting, nor shall any trap, net, or snare be erected or set for the purpose of such trapping or taking at any time whatever, except by persons duly authorized under section thirty-one of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

Section 12. (1.) No person shall kill or destroy any imported game or native game, or shoot at, or attempt to shoot at, any imported game or native game, with any swivel gun or pump gun, or use any gun other than a shoulder gun.

(2.) No gun shall be used for the purposes aforesaid the bore of which is larger than the size known as number twelve at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which exceeds ten pounds in weight.

In addition to the above the use of any automatic or auto-loading gun has been prohibited.

Section 13. (1.) No person shall use any cylinder for the purpose of taking or killing imported or native game in any lake or river; nor shall the apparatus known as a silencer be used on any gun in the taking or killing of imported game or native game.

(2.) No person shall use any live decoys for the purpose of taking or killing imported game or native game.

Section 14. (1.) No person shall take or kill any imported game or native game during an open season in any district unless he is the holder of a license under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, to take or kill imported game or native game in such district during that season.

Provided, however, that the owner of property, or any one son or daughter of each owner, may take or kill without license during an open season imported or native game which may be taken in the acclimatization district in which such owner’s property is situated, or the owner may in writing appoint one other person to shoot in his stead.

The fee for a license to take or kill both imported and native game is one pound (£1): Provided that in the North and South Canterbury Acclimatization Districts a separate license to take or kill native game may be issued at a fee of ten shillings (10s.); and a similar fee is payable in the case of the Ashburton, Southland, Waitaki, and Westland Districts wherein native game only may be taken or killed during the present season.

Section 15. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game or native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game or native game on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any land excepted from the operation of the notification declaring an open season for the district.

Section 39. Except as otherwise expressly provided, nothing in any license or other authority under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, shall entitle the holder thereof to enter upon any private land without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, or upon any State forest or provisional State forest.

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

Acclimatization District. Imported and Native Game.
Ashburton . . Grey duck, black teal, and black swan.
Auckland . . Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, black swan, black teal, and grey duck,