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Society, on payment of a license fee of £2, 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 Postmaster shall not exceed twenty. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

2. No licensee shall take or kill more than three fallow-deer bucks. 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 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.

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

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area as defined in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, comprising the counties of Geraldine and Levels and part of the County of Mackenzie.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill three fallow-deer bucks, within the South Canterbury Acclimatization District, 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 fallow-deer bucks made thereunder and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take or kill fallow-deer bucks 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.

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, Southland Acclimatization District (Fiordland National Park).

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 declare the period from the 24th day of March, 1923, to the 24th day of April, 1923 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Southland Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags—within that part of the said acclimatization district comprising the Fiordland National Park, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Warrant made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated the 19th day of October, 1909, and in the Warrants dated the 28th day of February, 1923, red deer (stags only) may be taken or killed within the Fiordland National Park, Southland, during the period hereinbefore mentioned, by persons to whom licenses may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, pursuant to the Warrants of 28th day of February, 1923, declaring an open season for deer-shooting in the Southland Acclimatization District, subject, however, to the conditions fixed in those Warrants.

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

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Open Season for Deer (Wapiti) Shooting, Southland Acclimatization District (Fiordland National Park).

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and notwithstanding anything contained in the Warrant made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated the 19th day of October, 1909, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 24th day of March, 1923, to the 31st day of May, 1923 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Southland Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., wapiti—within that part of the said acclimatization district described in the First Schedule hereto, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill wapiti stags may be issued by the Chief Postmaster, Invercargill, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Southland Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £10, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. The number of such licenses shall not exceed two. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person, and a notification shall first be published in a newspaper circulating in the district intimating the number of licenses to be issued and the fee payable therefor. Also providing that if the number of applications received for licenses exceeds the number of available licenses, then the persons to whom such licenses are to be issued shall be decided by ballot.

2. No licensee shall take or kill more than two wapiti stags.

3. No 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.

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 Chief Postmaster at Invercargill 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. The fees paid for licenses issued pursuant to this notification shall, after deducting the cost of and incidental to the issue of such licenses, and any other expenses in connection therewith, be paid to the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts and the Southland Acclimatization Society in equal proportions.

7. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable on conviction to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area within the Southland Acclimatization District comprising the Fiordland National Park.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £10, is hereby authorized to take or kill two wapiti stags in the Fiordland National Park, Southland, 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 wapiti deer made thereunder and in force within the Southland Acclimatization 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 (Moose) Shooting, Southland Acclimatization District (Fiordland National Park).

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and notwithstanding anything contained in the Warrant made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated the 19th day of October, 1909, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 24th day of March, 1923, to the 31st day of May, 1923 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Southland Acclimatization District for the taking or killing