Aumb. 13.

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1925.

Special Provision with respect to Deer in Portion of Westland
Acclimatization District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921-22 (hereinafter referred to
as "the said Act"), I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
amend the Warrant under the said Act (hereinafter referred to
as "the said Warrant"), dated the eighth day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and gazetted
on the fifteenth day of the same month, declaring deer to
cease to be imported game in portions of various acclimatiza-
tion districts, by deleting from the said Warrant all that area
in the Westland Acclimatization District described in the
Schedule thereto (hereinafter referred to as "the said area"):

And I do hereby further declare that deer shall be deemed to
be included in the Second Schedule of the said Act with
respect to the said area :

And I do hereby further declare that this Warrant shall
come into force on the second day of March, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five, and shall expire on the thirtieth
day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. and
that from and after the last-mentioned date deer shall cease
to be included in the Second Schedule of the said Act with
respect to the said area.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 23rd day of February, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Ashburton (Alford Forest)
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, 1925, to the 10th day of May, 1925 (both days in-
clusive), to be an open season in the Ashburton Acclimatization
District for the taking or killing of the following imported
game--viz., red-deer stags and hinds-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 red-deer stags and hinds may be
   issued by the Postmaster at Ashburton, upon the recom-
   mendation of the secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatization
   Society, on payment of a license fee of £5, in the form pre-
   scribed in the 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 eighteen. Provided that not more than one such license
   shall be issued to the same person ; and also 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 allow any dog to accompany either
   himself or any attendant he may have with him. Ball car-
   tridge only to be used; provided that no metal-patched or
   metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.

3. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

4. Regulations as to the use of marks of identification of
   deer-heads, contained in section 6 of the regulations under
   the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, published in
   the New Zealand Gazette of the 7th February, 1924, page 437,
   shall be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition
   thereto, shall return all unused "tags" to the secretary of
   the Acclimatization Society, Ashburton, 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.

5. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and
   hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer