✨ Hunting Regulations




APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

  1. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
    and native game, 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.

  2. 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, punt-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.

  3. Shooting may begin not earlier than half an hour before
    sunrise and must cease not later than half an hour after
    sunset.

  4. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of Β£20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District commencing on the sea-coast at the north-western corner of
Block V, Waipoua Survey District, and bounded by the
southern boundaries of Blocks I, II, III, and IV, Waipoua
Survey District, to a public road; across that road; and
by the western, southern, and south-eastern boundaries of
Section 10, Block I, Tutamoe Survey District, to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; across a public
road, and by the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 5,
6, and 7, Block V, Tutamoe Survey District, to the south-western corner of Section 5, Block I, Tutamoe Survey District; thence by the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 5,
4, 3, and 14 of the last-mentioned block, and part of the
southern boundary of Section 5, Block II, Tutamoe Survey
District, to the intersection of a line running between the
north-western corner of Section 3, Block XIII, Punakitere
Survey District, and Tutamoe Trig. Station; thence by
the last-mentioned line to Tutamoe Trig. Station; thence
by a right line running in the direction of Trig. Station No.
18 on Tarai-o-Rahiri to the western boundary of Section
No. 26, Block IX, Mangakahia Survey District; thence
south-easterly along the western boundaries generally of
Sections 26, 23, and 22, Block IX aforesaid, to the road
forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 22 aforesaid;
across that road and along its eastern side to the southern-most corner of Section 11 of Block IX aforesaid; thence
north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of said
Section 11 to its easternmost corner; thence south-easterly
along that part of the western boundary of Section 2 and
the western and southern boundaries generally of Sections 8A
and 9 to the westernmost corner of the reserve forming
the northern boundary of Section 2, Block XIII, Mangakahia
Survey District; thence south-easterly along the southern
boundary of the said reserve to a public road, across that
road, and southerly along the eastern side of the aforesaid
road and the south-western boundaries of Sections 11, 10, 9,
and 8, Block XIV, Mangakahia Survey District, to the Wairoa
River; thence down the Wairoa River to its junction with
the Tangihua River; thence up the Tangihua River to
its junction with the Waiotama River; and thence up the
Waiotama River to its intersection by the road forming
the eastern and southern boundaries of Section 1, Block 1,
Tangihua Survey District; thence southerly and westerly
along that road to a point in line with the western
boundary of Section 7A, Block I, Tangihua Survey District; thence southerly along the western boundaries of
Sections 7A and 7 to the westernmost corner of the last-
mentioned section; thence southerly along the western
boundaries of Sections 16, 15A, and 14 to Horokaka Trig.
Station; thence by a right line to the north-eastern corner
of Allotment No. 1A, Walton's Grant; thence down the
stream forming the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 1A
aforesaid to the Tauraroa River; thence down the said
Tauraroa River to its junction with the Mangonui River;
then up the said Mangonui River to its junction with the
north-western boundary of Section 1, Block II, Matakohe
Survey District; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundaries of the said Section 1, Block II aforesaid,
the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 44, 51, 63, Block
III, Matakohe Survey District, the south-eastern boundaries
of Sections 59, 61, 65, 66, and part of 67, Block XV, Tangihua
Survey District, the south-eastern boundaries of part of
Section 67 and Sections 68, 159, 157, 156, 155, and 154,
Block XVI, Tangihua Survey District, to the easternmost
corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by the eastern

boundaries of the parishes of Mareretu and Wairau to the
main road to Waipu; thence by the western side of that
road through Maungaturoto to the Great North Road,
and by the western side of that road to its intersection with
the Hakaru River; thence along the northern boundary
of the Auckland Acclimatization District, hereinbefore described, to the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour; thence
northerly by the sea to the north-western corner of Block V,
Waipoua Survey District, 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:-

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, situated
in Kai Iwi and Kaihu Survey Districts, Hobson County,
being the lakes known as Lake Waikere, Lake Taharoa, and
Lake Kai Iwi, and the area surrounding the said lakes included within a line running parallel to and 40 chains distant from the margins of the said lakes.

As witness my hand this 1st day of April, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., Lakes District 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 May to the 31st day of July, 1925 (both days inclusive),
to be an open season in the Lakes District 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., Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan; and the period
from the 1st day of May, 1925, to the 7th day of May, 1925
(both days inclusive), to be an open season in the localities
known as Garston, Nicholas, Greenstone, and Glenorchy,
being part of the said district, for the taking or killing of
the following native game-viz., paradise duck; subject to
the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

  1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
    game 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 will be issued
    to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.)
    each; and the Postmasters at Queenstown, Arrowtown,
    Kingston, and Pembroke are 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 and black swan, and
    six head of paradise duck.

  3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
    and native game (or native game only) shall authorize the
    holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native
    game (or native game only) on lands actually 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, punt-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. Shooting may begin not earlier than half an hour before
    sunrise and must cease not later than half an hour after
    sunset.

  6. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of Β£20.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Otago and Southland Land Districts
bounded on the north generally by the Westland Acclimatization District, hereinafter described, on the east by the
Otago Acclimatization District, hereinafter described, to
the point in the Mataura River in line with the north-western
boundary of Section 4, Block III, Nokomai Survey District;
then up the Mataura River to its source on Eyre Peak;



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1925, No 22


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🌾 Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fees, &c., Hobson Acclimatization District (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
1 April 1925
Hunting season, Licensing, Hobson, Game birds, Cock pheasants, Californian quail, Grey duck, Black swan, Pukeko, Godwits
  • RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs

🌾 Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fees, &c., Lakes District Acclimatization District

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Hunting season, Licensing, Lakes District, Game birds, Californian quail, Grey duck, Black swan, Paradise duck
  • Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs