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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

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 conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the Puwhenua Trig. Station (situated in Block VIII, Tapapa Survey District), and proceeding north-west along a right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station (situated in Block VII, Tapapa East Survey District) to a point due west from Otanewainuku Trig. Station in Block XVI, Otanewainuku; thence due east along a right line to that trig. station and again due east along that line produced to a point due south of Trig. Station II in Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a right line running due north through Trig. II aforesaid to high-water mark, Bay of Plenty; thence along high-water mark, Bay of Plenty, in a south-easterly direction to the western side of Maraetotara Road (Block III, Whakatane Survey District); thence along the western side of that road to its junction with the Nukuhou-Maraetotara Road (Whakatane-Opotiki main road); thence along the western side of the last-named road to its junction with the Nukuhou (Waimana-Ohivi) Road; thence along the western side of that road to the “confiscation line”; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary-line of Waimana 1E Block; thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 21, Block IV, Waimana Survey District, and the south-eastern side of Waimana 1C and 1D to Paitaua; thence along the south-western boundary of Waimana 1D Block to the Waimana or Tauranga River; thence up that river to its source; thence south-westerly along summit of range to Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence south-easterly along a right line in the direction of Puketapu Trig. Station to its intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII, Tuahu Survey District; thence down that river to the northern boundary of S.G.R. 84, and thence along the northern boundary of said S.G.R. 84 and along the northern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block VIII, Tuahu Survey District, to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana Road; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to Bushy Knoll Road; thence along the middle of that road to the northernmost corner of Section 2, Block IX, Hangaroa Survey District; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 1, Block IX aforesaid; thence south-easterly generally along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 4, Block IX aforesaid; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of Tauwharetoi 4B Block; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of said block and Tauwharetoi 3B Block, and along the south-eastern boundary of Tauwharetoi 3A Block to the Hangaroa River; thence down the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ruakiture River; thence along a right line to the sea at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu Survey District); thence southerly along high-water mark of the sea to the southernmost point of Mahia Peninsula; thence along high-water mark, Hawke’s Bay, to Moeangiangi (Block XI, Moeangiangi Survey District); thence up a leading spur and along the southern watershed of the Waikare River to the summit of Taraponui Mountain; thence down a leading spur to the confluence of the Mohaka and Waipunga Rivers; thence along a right line to the summit of Tataraoikina Mountain; thence along the eastern watershed of the Mokomokonui Stream to the summit of Pohokura Mountain; thence along a right line running due east to Pukahunui or Hautapu Stream; thence up a leading spur and along the western watershed of Te Hoe River to Maungataniwha Trig. Station (Tuatawhata Survey District); thence along the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block to its intersection with a right line running from the northernmost point of Lake Waikaremoana through a point 180 chains due north of Maungataniwha Trig. Station; thence south-westerly along that line to the Taupo-Napier Road; thence along a right line to the north-western corner of Wharetoto No. 8 Subdivision B Block (Block V, Maruanui Survey District); thence down the Taharua and Mohaka Rivers to a point in line with Trig. Stations 68A and 65A; thence along that line to said Trig. Station 65A; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki Tohunga, in Block XII, Mangamaire Survey District; thence south-westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 27; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 28, Manukaiapu; thence north-westerly along a right line to Ruapehu Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line to Paretetaitonga Trig. Station; thence towards the north-east along a right line to Ngaruhoe Trig. Station; thence northerly along a right line to Tongariro Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line in the direction of the mouth of the Waihi Stream, Lake Taupo,

to the Wanganui River; thence down the middle of that river to the western boundary of the Waione Block, and northerly along that boundary to Maungaku Trig. Station; thence northerly along a mountain-range passing through Hauhangaroa, Motere, Tuhingamata, and Weraroa Trig. Stations to the source of the Ongaruhe River; thence north-westerly along a right line to Rangitoto Mountain; and thence north-easterly along a right line to Puwhenua Trig. Station, the place 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. Lakes Ngahewa, Okataina, Rotokawa or Bitter Lake near Taupo, and Rotoaira, and the land within one mile of the shores of these lakes.
2. All land within one mile of the Okere Wharf.
3. Mahia Peninsula.

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., South 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 South Canterbury Acclimatization 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., mallard duck, grey duck, black teal, 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 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.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native game, including godwits, 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, will be issued to any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the secretary of the South 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 imported game and native game, or native game only, that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed twelve mallard duck, ten godwits, twenty-five head in all of grey duck, black teal, and black swan, and five head of paradise duck.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and native game, including godwits (or native game only, including godwits), shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native game, including godwits (or native game only, including godwits), 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 conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area comprising the counties of Geraldine and Levels, and that portion of the County of Mackenzie lying to the east of a line commencing at Mount Cook and proceeding by a right line over the Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, thence along the western boundary of the Tasman Glacier