MAR. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 841
August, 1916, is hereby abolished as from and including the
lst day of January, 1925.
As witness my hand this 10th day of March, 1925.
W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Hauraki Plains Rating District.-Penalty on Overdue Rates.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th March, 1925.
In pursuance of section 28 of the Rating Amendment Act,
1910, and the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908, the ratepayers
within the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are
hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to
all rates for the year ended 31st March, 1925, unpaid on the
I7th April, 1925.
Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the
"Collector of Rates," Box 1659, Auckland.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

NewZealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.-Closing of Registers.
The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th March, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand
4½-per-Cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 20th April,
1939, and the Register of New Zealand 5-per-Cent. Inscribed
Stock, maturing 20th April, 1929, will be closed from the
1st April to the 20th April, 1925, inclusive, for the purpose
of the issue of half-yearly interest.
F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of
Postal Correspondence for B. Bale, 119, Rawson Chambers,
Rawson Place, Sydney, and A. McArthur, "Evartstan,"
Heyde Avenue, Strathfield, Sydney.
THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand
having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons
whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule here-
under are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or
scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of
the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in
favour of either of the said persons shall be issued, and that no
postal packet addressed to either of the said persons (either by
his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to
either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a
name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post
Office of New Zealand.
SCHEDULE.
B. BALE, 119, Rawson Chambers, Rawson Place, Sydney.
A. McArthur, "Evartstan," Heyde Avenue, Strathfield,
Sydney.
Dated this 16th day of March, 1925.
J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General

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 23rd day of
March, 1925, to the 30th day of April, 1925 (both days in-
clusive), to be an open season in the Hawke's Bay Acclima-
tization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for
the taking or killing of the following imported game-viz.,
red-deer stags-subject to the fcllowing 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 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 Hawke's Bay Acclimatization Society, Napier, imme-
   diately 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 condi-
   tions 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 Tataraokino 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 Moeangiangi ; 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.
   No.
   License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).
   , of , having this day paid the sum of
   £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill four red-deer stags
   of not less than ten points, within the Hawke's Bay Accli-
   matization District, from the 23rd day of March, 1925,
   to the 30th day of April, 1925 (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 , 1925.
   Secretary,
   Hawke's Bay Acclimatization Society.
   As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of
   March, 1925.
   F. H. D. BELL,
   For Minister of Internal Affairs.