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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 26

Acclimatization District.
Bay of Islands .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Buller .. Hares, grey duck, and black swan.
Coromandel .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

East Coast .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail.

Feilding and district Hares, cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Grey District .. Hares, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Hawera .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Hawke’s Bay .. Cock pheasants, mallard duck, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, widgeon (or shoveller), and black swan.

Hobson .. Cock pheasants, Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Lakes District .. Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Marlborough .. Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Mangonui-Whangaroa Close season.

Nelson .. Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

North Canterbury .. Californian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck (or shoveller), and black swan.

Opotiki .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Otago .. Californian quail, mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck (or widgeon), and black swan.

Rotorua .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck, eastern golden plover, turnstone, black teal, and black swan.

South Canterbury .. Mallard duck, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Southland .. Grey duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan.

Stratford .. Cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Taranaki .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Tauranga .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, and black swan.

Waimarino .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan.

Waimate .. Close season.

Waitaki .. Grey duck and black swan.

Wanganui .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, and black swan.

Wellington .. Cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, mallard duck, hares, grey duck, black teal, shoveller, and black swan.

Westland .. Grey duck and black swan.

Whangarei .. Close season.

NOTE.—Not more than twenty-five head of native game may be killed by any one person in any one day in any district.

Native pigeon, paradise duck, and pukeko are absolutely protected.

SALE OF NATIVE AND IMPORTED GAME.

No sale this season.

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

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., cock pheasants, Californian quail, and Australian quail—may be taken or killed within the Auckland Acclimatization District, comprising all that area in the North Auckland, Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington

Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Mokau River, and proceeding thence along high-water mark, Tasman Sea, in a northerly direction generally (crossing the mouths of all harbours and rivers by the way) to the Kaipara Harbour entrance to a point midway between Kaipara Heads; thence up the centre of the channels, Kaipara Harbour, leading to the mouth of Oruawhero River; thence up the middle of that river, Topuni River, and Hakaru River to the north-west corner of Section 33, Oruawhero Parish; thence along the south-western boundaries of Sections 65, 64, 61, 60, 57, 56, 51, and 50, all in Mangawhai Parish, and along the eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to a public road; thence south-easterly along that road to a point opposite south-west corner of Section 92 in the aforesaid parish; thence across that road and proceeding along the western boundaries generally of said Section 92 and Sections 90, 89, 88, 87, and 86 in the aforesaid parish to a public road; thence north-westerly along that road to a stream near the headwaters of the Mangawhai Harbour; thence down the middle of that stream and the middle of that harbour to the sea; thence along high-water mark of the sea, Hauraki Gulf and Firth of Thames (crossing the mouths of all harbours and rivers by the way), to the mouth of the Waikawau River in Block VI, Hastings Survey District; thence up the middle of that river to its source, and along a right line from said source to Northhead, Tairua Harbour; thence southerly along high-water mark, Bay of Plenty (crossing the mouths of all harbours and rivers by the way), to the mouth of the Waihi River in Block III, Waihi North Survey District; thence south-westerly along a right line to Mount Te Aroha Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line (in the direction of Ngakuriawhare Trig. Station, Block I, Katikati North) to the western boundary of the Tauranga Confiscation Block; thence south-easterly by right lines from hill to hill along the summit of the range forming the western boundary of the aforesaid Tauranga Confiscation Block and passing over Ngatamahinerau, Mimiotohana, and Waianuanu to Te Weraiti Trig. Station; thence south-easterly along a right line to Puwhenua Trig. Station (in Block VIII, Tapapa Survey District); thence south-westerly along a right line to Rangitoto Mountain; thence south-easterly along a right line to the source of the Ongaruhe River; thence southerly along a mountain range passing through Weraroa, Tuhingamata, Motere, and Hauhangaroa Trig. Stations to Maungaku Trig. Station; thence southerly along the western boundary of the Waione Block to the Wanganui River; thence down the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ohura River; thence up the middle of the Ohura River to the 39th parallel of south latitude; thence easterly along the said parallel of latitude to the western boundary of Block IV, Pouatu Survey District; thence due north along that boundary and the western boundary of Block XVI, Waro Survey District, to the confiscation line; thence north-easterly along that line to the Tangarakau Stream; thence up the middle of that stream and up the middle of the Waitaanga Stream to the Kotare Road at the southern boundary of Section 2, Block VII, Waro Survey District; thence westerly along the Kotare Road to the south-west corner of Section 1, Block VII; thence along the south-west boundary of the said section and along the southern, western, and northern boundaries of Section 3, Block VI, Waro Survey District, to the western boundary of Section 4, Block VI, Waro Survey District; thence along the western boundaries generally of Sections 4 and 5, and along the south-western and northern boundaries of Section 6 (all in Block VI, Waro Survey District) to the Mohakatino Road; thence northerly along that road to a stream which crosses the Mohakatino-Parininihi 1b East Block and flows into the Mohakatino Stream near the westernmost corner of Section 1, Block III, Waro Survey District; thence down that stream to the said confluence and up the said Mohakatino Stream and along the northern boundary of Section 3, Block III, Waro Survey District, to Tawhitirau Trig. Station; thence along the south-western and western boundaries of Mokau-Mohakatino 1b Block to the Mokau River; thence down the middle of that river to the sea, the place of commencement: including in the hereinbefore-described area the islands of Waiheke and Ponui and Great Barrier Islands: (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 the following native game—viz., grey duck, black teal, and black swan may—be taken or killed within the said district (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. And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Thames, and the Postmasters at Ahuroa, Aria, Avondale, Awakino, Buck-