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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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shillings (10s.); and a similar fee is payable in the case of
the Ashburton, Southland, Waimate, and Waitaki Districts
wherein native game only may be taken or killed during
the present season; in the Buller and Grey Acclimatization
Districts a license is obtainable to take or kill imported game
only—viz., hares—at a fee of ten shillings (10s.), and a license
to take or kill native game only at a similar fee.

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.

A short season for paradise duck and for pukeko—viz.,
1st May to 14th May, 1923—has been granted in respect of
some acclimatization districts. The issue of licenses to take
or kill these birds is provided for in the Warrants fixing the
open season in the districts concerned.

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

Acclimatization District.
Ashburton ..
Auckland ..
Bay of Islands ..
Buller ..
Coromandel ..
East Coast ..
Feilding and district
Grey District ..
Hawera ..
Hawke’s Bay ..
Hobson ..
Lakes District ..
Marlborough ..
Mangonui-Whangaroa
Nelson ..
North Canterbury ..
Opotiki ..
Otago ..
Rotorua ..
South Canterbury ..
Southland ..
Stratford ..
Taranaki ..

Imported and Native Game.
Grey duck, black teal, black swan,
and paradise duck.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, black swan, black
teal, and grey duck.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, black teal,
and black swan.
Hares, grey duck, and pukeko.
Cock pheasants, Californian quail,
grey duck, black teal, and black
swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian quail,
grey duck, and black teal.
Hares, cock pheasants, Californian
and Australian quail, grey duck,
and black swan.
Hares, grey duck, black teal, and
black swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian quail,
grey duck, black teal, and black
swan.
Cock pheasants, mallard duck, Cali-
formian and Australian quail, grey
duck, black teal, widgeon (or
shoveller), and black swan.
Cock pheasants, grey duck, and black
teal.
Californian quail, grey duck, black
swan, paradise duck, and pukeko.
Californian quail, grey duck, and
black swan.
Cock pheasants, Australian quail, grey
duck, black teal, spoonbill duck (or
shoveller), and black swan.
Californian quail, grey duck, and
black swan.
Californian quail, grey duck, spoon-
bill duck (or shoveller), black swan,
paradise duck, and pukeko.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, black teal,
and black swan.
Californian quail, mallard duck, grey
duck, spoonbill duck (or widgeon),
black swan, paradise duck, and
pukeko.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, spoonbill
duck, black teal, and black swan.
Mallard duck, grey duck, black teal,
black swan, and paradise duck.
Grey duck, spoonbill duck, black
swan, and paradise duck.
Cock pheasants, Californian quail,
grey duck, black teal, and black
swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, and
black swan.

Acclimatization District.
Tauranga ..
Waiapu ..
Waimarino ..
Waimate ..
Waitaki ..
Wanganui ..
Wellington ..
Westland ..
Whangarei..

Imported and Native Game.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, black teal,
and black swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, black teal,
and black swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, and black
teal.
Grey duck, black swan, paradise duck,
and pukeko.
Grey duck, black swan, and paradise
duck.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, grey duck, spoonbill
duck (or shoveller), black teal, and
black swan.
Cock pheasants, Californian and Aus-
tralian quail, mallard duck, hares,
grey duck, black teal, shoveller,
and black swan.
Close season.
Cock pheasants, Australian quail,
grey duck, black teal, and black
swan.

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 is absolutely protected.

SALE OF NATIVE AND IMPORTED GAME.

No sale this season.

Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.—Protection of
Native Birds.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th April, 1923.

THE public are earnestly requested to assist in preserving
for posterity the native birds of New Zealand.

Under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, it is
illegal for any person to take or kill any protected birds, or
have in possession the skins of any such birds, without the
consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

It is also illegal for any person to rob or destroy the nest
of any bird to which the Act applies.

Every person who offends against such provisions is liable
to a fine of £25 for every such offence.

NATIVE GAME.

Native game can only be shot during the open season,
and then only such kinds of native game as are specified in
the annual shooting-season warrants.

The following is a list of native game :—

Black swan.
Duck—
Black teal.
Grey duck.
Paradise.
Shoveller.

Eastern golden plover.
Godwit or curlew.
Knot.
Pukeko.
Turnstone.

ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED BIRDS.

The following is a list of absolutely protected birds :—

Albatross—
Black-browed mollymawk.
Bounty Island mollymawk.
Campbell Island molly-
mawk.
Royal albatross.
Snares Island mollymawk.
Sooty albatross.
Wandering albatross (toroa).
Yellow-nosed mollymawk.
Australian tree-swallow.
Avocet.
Bell-bird, or mocky (kori-
mako).
Auckland Island bell-bird.
Chatham Island bell-bird.
Bittern (matuku-hurepo).
Little bittern (kioriki).
Canary—
Bush canary (mohua).
White-head canary (popo-
kotea).
Creeper (South Island), (pipi-
pi, toitoi).

Crow—
North Island crow (ko-
kako).
South Island crow (ko-
kako).
Cuckoo (Family Cuculidae)—
Long-tailed cuckoo (koe-
koea).
Shining cuckoo (pipiwha-
rauroa).
Dottrel—
Banded dottrel.
New Zealand dottrel.
Duck—
Auckland Island duck.
Blue or mountain duck
(whio).
Brown duck.
Grey teal.
Fantail—
Black fantail (tiwaka-
waka).
Chatham Island pied fan-
tail.
Pied fantail (tiwakawaka).