MAR. 1.]

points. A licensee may, pursuant to a license issued under
this notification, take or kill an unlimited number of hinds.
Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no metal-patched
or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.
3. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either
himself or any attendant he may have with him.
4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.
5. Regulations as to deer “tags,” contained in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 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
Ashburton Acclimatization Society, Ashburton, 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.
6. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and
hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer
stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any
registered acclimatization society for acclimatization pur-
poses, 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.
7. Any person committing a breach of any of these con-
ditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Ashburton Acclimatization District
known as the Rakaia Gorge.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.
License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of
£5, is hereby authorized to take or kill three red-deer stags,
of not less than ten points, and an unlimited number of
hinds, within that part of the Ashburton Acclimatization
District known as the Rakaia Gorge, from the day of
, 1923, to the day of , 1923 (both
days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and all regulations and
notifications affecting red-deer stags and hinds made there-
under and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take
or kill red-deer stags or hinds on lands actually and exclu-
sively 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.

Dated at this day of , 1923.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 28th day of
February, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART.
Minister of Internal Affairs

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Auckland Acclimatization
District.

I n 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 declare the period from the 15th day of
March, 1923, to the 31st day of May, 1923 (both days in-
clusive), to be an open season in the Auckland Acclimatization
District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking
or killing of the following imported game—viz., fallow-deer
bucks—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill fallow-deer bucks may be issued
   by the Chief Postmaster at Auckland, and the Postmasters
   at Cambridge, Hamilton; Matamata, Morrinsville, Walton,
   Te Aroha, Thames, Paeroa, and Helensville, on payment of
   a license fee of £1, in the form prescribed in the Second
   Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations
   thereunder and this notification. The number of such licenses
   to be issued by the said Postmasters shall not exceed fifty.
   Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued
   to the same person.

2. No licensee shall take or kill more than five bucks, and
   no buck shall be killed carrying antlers with less than four
   points. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no
   metal-patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing
   such deer.

3. 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.

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

5. Nothing in any license to take or kill fallow-deer bucks
   shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill fallow-deer
   bucks on lands actually and exclusively used by any regis-
   tered 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.

6. Any person committing a breach of any of these con-
   ditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

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 afore-
said 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, Mimio-
tohanga, 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 Onga-
ruhe 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 con-
fiscation 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 boundary 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 1D East Block and flows into
the Mohakatino Stream near the westernmost corner of
Section 1, Block III, Waru 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 1H Block to the Mokau River ; thence
down the middle of that river to the sea, the place of com-

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