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and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society
for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
domain.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any such imported game
   or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such
   imported game or native game, with any automatic or auto-
   loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of
   carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle or pea-rifle,
   swivel-gun or pump-gun, or shall use any gun other than
   a shoulder-gun; and no gun shall be used for the purpose
   aforesaid the bore of which is larger than the size known
   as No. 12 at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which
   exceeds 10 lb. in weight.

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

SCHEDULE.

All that area comprising the Waimea, Takaka, Colling-
wood, and Murchison Counties, and part of the Inangahua
County at present date, bounded towards the north-west
and north-east generally by the Tasman Sea, Golden Bay,
and Tasman Bay from Kohaihai Bluff, in Block XII,
Whakapoa Survey District, to a point on the shore
of Croisilles Harbour due west of the westernmost point of
Elaine or Brown’s Bay; thence towards the north by a
right line running due east to said westernmost point of
that bay and by southern shore of that bay to its south head;
thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to
Trig. Station Y (boundary trig.), and by a line along the
summit of the range over Mount McLaren, Editor Peak,
Mount Duppa, and Saddle Hill to the source of the Heringa
Stream; thence by a line down the middle of that stream
to its confluence with the Pelorus River; thence by a line up
the middle of the Pelorus River to its source near Red
Hills; thence by a right line to the summit; thence by a line
along the summit of the range over Red Hills, Mount Rintoul,
and Bush Cone to the summit of Ward’s Pass; thence by
a right line to Trig. Station Top 2 (Mangatawai); thence by
a line along the summit of St. Arnaud Range and the summit
of the Spenser Mountains; thence towards the south-west
by a line along the summit of the southern watershed of the
Maruia River to Mount Haast; thence by a line due north
to the right bank of the Inangahua River, and along
that bank to and along the left bank of the Buller River to
the mouth of the Eight-mile or Boundary Creek; thence by a
line up a leading spur on the western side of said Boundary
Creek to Bald Hill, and by a line along the summit of Lyell
Range and along the summit of a range over Mount Luna to
Mount Arthur; thence towards the south-west by a line along
the summit of the western ranges over Mount Peel and Mount
Snowdon to Mount Cobb; thence towards the south-east by a
line along the summit of range over Mount Domett and down
a leading spur to the Tasman Sea at Kohaihai Bluff, the place
of commencement.

As witness my hand this 6th day of April, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., North Canterbury 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 declare the period from the 1st day
of May to the 31st day of July, 1923 (both days inclusive),
to be an open season in the North Canterbury Acclimatiza-
tion District, as described in the First Schedule hereto,
except in the areas referred to in condition No. 3 and in
the Second Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the
following imported game and native game—viz., Californian
quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck (or shoveller), and black
swan; and the period from the 1st day of May to the 14th day
of May, 1923 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the
said district for the taking or killing of the following native
game—viz., paradise duck and pukeko; and the period from
the 1st day of January to the 31st day of March, 1924 (both
days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the
taking or killing of the following native game—viz., godwits
and knots—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game, including godwits and knots, within the said district
   will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty
   shillings (20s.) each, and licenses to take or kill such native
   game only, including godwits and knots, will be issued to
   any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the

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secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatization Society
or any person authorized by such secretary in that behalf, is
hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such native game that may be taken
   or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed
   twenty-five head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck (or
   shoveller), and black swan, and six head each of paradise duck
   and pukeko.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
   and native game, including godwits and knots (or native game
   only, including godwits and knots), shall authorize the holder
   thereof to take or kill imported game and native game,
   including godwits and knots (or native game only, including
   godwits and knots), on lands actually and exclusively used by
   any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization
   purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or any land
   mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any such imported game
   or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such
   imported game or native game, with any automatic or auto-
   loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of
   carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle or pea-rifle,
   swivel-gun or pump-gun, or shall use any gun other than
   a shoulder-gun; and no gun shall be used for the purpose
   aforesaid the bore of which is larger than the size known
   as No. 12 at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which
   exceeds 10 lb. in weight.

5. 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 Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury
Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Whitcombe
Pass, and proceeding north-easterly along the summit of the
Southern Alps and the Spenser Mountains to Mount Hum-
boldt; thence along a right line to Barefell Pass, a right line
to Palmer Saddle, and thence down the Conway River to its
mouth; thence along the sea-coast to Rakaia River, and up
that river to its source at Whitcombe Pass, the point of
commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Areas, in addition to those referred to in condition No. 3,
excepted from the open season wherein imported game and
native game shall not be taken or killed:

1. All that area in the County of Akaroa, situated in the
   Akaroa and Ellesmere Survey Districts, Canterbury Land
   District, containing by admeasurement 1,540 acres, more or
   less, being the lake known as Lake Forsyth, including all
   roads fronting on the shores of the said lake; and all those
   reserves in the said county and survey districts numbered
   3186, 3187, 3185, 2903, 890, and 157, excluding therefrom
   Native reserve 385 adjoining Lake Forsyth, and those portions
   of R.S. 2474, 4804, and 6012, being the flat land adjoining
   Okute and Little River Streams and Lake Forsyth.

2. Ahuriri Lagoon.

3. Horse-shoe Lake.

4. Glenmark Lagoon.

5. Cheviot Lagoon.

6. All that area containing 162 acres, more or less, being
   Section No. 7409, Block XII, Grey Survey District, the said
   section being the property of Frederick Busch, of Newlands,
   Amberley.

7. All that area within one mile on each side of the West
   Coast (Christchurch-Hokitika) Road from Springfield to
   Dillmanstown.

As witness my hand this 6th day of April, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., Opotiki 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 declare the period from the 1st day
of May to the 31st day of July, 1923 (both days inclusive),
to be an open season in the Opotiki Acclimatization District,
as described in the Schedule hereto, except in the areas
referred to in condition No. 3, for the taking or killing of
the following imported game and native game—viz., cock
pheasants, Californian quail, Australian quail, grey duck,
black teal, and black swan; and the period from the 1st
day of January to the 31st day of March, 1924 (both days
inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the
taking or killing of the following native game—viz., godwits
—subject to the following conditions.