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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 15

Open Season for Deer-shooting; Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of April, 1924, to the 15th day of May, 1924 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags may be issued by the secretary of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization 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. Provided that not more than one license shall be issued to the same person.
2. No licensee shall take or kill more than four stags, and no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten 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 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 secretary of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization Society, Napier, 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 shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer stags 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.
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 in the Auckland, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington Land Districts, commencing at a point in the centre of the Rangitikei River with the intersection of a right line running between Trig. Stations 27 and 26, Tawaki-Tohunga, and situated in Blocks XV and XII, Mangamaire Survey District, respectively; thence towards the north generally by a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki-Tohunga; thence by a right line to Trig. Station 65A; thence by a right line in a north-easterly direction through Trig. Station 68A to the middle of the Mohaka River; thence by the middle of the Mohaka and Taharua Rivers to a point in line with the north-western corner of Wharetoto No. 8 Subdivision B Block; thence by a right line to the intersection of the Taupo-Napier Road with the western boundary of Wharetoto No. 9 Block; thence by a right line running in the direction of the most northern shore of Lake Waikaremoana to its intersection with the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block; thence by that boundary to Maungataniwha Trig. Station in Tuatawhata Survey District; thence by the leading spur and the western watershed of Te Hoe River to a point on the Hautapu River due east of Pohokura Trig. Station; thence by a right line to Pohokura Trig. Station aforesaid; thence by the eastern watershed of the Mokomokonui Stream to the Tararakino Mountain; thence by the leading spur to the confluence of the Mohaka and Waipunga Rivers; thence by the leading spur to Trig. Station 69A, Taraponui; thence by the leading spur and the southern watershed of the Waikare River to the sea at Moeangi; thence towards the east generally by high-water mark of the sea to the middle of the Waimata River, being the north-eastern corner of Waimata Survey District in Akitio County; thence by the northern boundaries of Waimata and Mount Cerberus Survey Districts and the northern boundary of Wellington Land District to the middle of the Manawatu River; thence by the middle of the Manawatu River to a point in line with the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence to and by the summit of that range to a right line running between Aorangi Trig. Station and the confluence of the northern branch of the Waipawa River with the Makaroro River; thence by

that line to Aorangi Trig. Station; thence by a right line running in the direction of trig. numbered 3? to the middle of the Rangitikei River, and by the middle of that river to the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags of not less than ten points, within the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization District, from the day of , 1924, to the day of , 1924 (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 made thereunder and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer stags 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 , 1924.

……… Secretary,
Hawke's Bay Acclimatization Society.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of March, 1924.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Deer-shooting. Wanganui Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of April, 1924, to the 15th day of May, 1924 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Wanganui Acclimatization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., fallow-deer bucks and does—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill fallow-deer bucks and does may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, 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 Chief Postmaster shall not exceed thirty. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.
2. No licensee shall take or kill more than two bucks and three does, and no buck shall be killed carrying antlers with less than twelve 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 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 and does shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill fallow-deer bucks or does 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. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Post-master of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer, such notice to be posted or delivered or telegraphed three clear days before such date.
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 in the Wellington and Taranaki Land Districts bounded by a line commencing on the sea-coast at the mouth of the Waitotara River, and proceeding thence up the middle of that river to and up the middle of the Mangaone Stream to a point in line with the southern boundary of Section 16, Block V, Nukumaru Survey District; thence to and along the said southern boundary to the trig. station on Whare-karangi; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 16 aforesaid to and up the middle of the Mangaone Stream to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Lot 4 on