APRIL 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1107
Authorizing a Flag for Samoan Vessels.
THE following is published for general information.
F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of External Affairs.
ADMIRALTY, S.W.
By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord
High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, &c.
WHEREAS we deem it expedient that vessels belonging to
inhabitants of the Islands of Western Samoa shall be permitted to wear the Red Ensign of His Majesty's Fleet with
the Badge of the Islands of Western Samoa on the fly
thereof—to wit, three palm-trees proper:
We do, therefore, by virtue of the power and authority
vested in us, hereby warrant and authorize the Red Ensign
of His Majesty's Fleet with the Badge of the Islands of
Western Samoa to be used on board vessels belonging to the
inhabitants of the Islands of Western Samoa.
Given under our hands and the Seal of the Office of
Admiralty this sixteenth day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.
M. SEYMOUR.
JOHN D. KELLY.
By command of Their Lordships.
O. MURRAY.
Notification of Approval of Rules, Southland Acclimatization Society.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th April, 1925.
PURSUANT to the provisions of section 25 of the
Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I hereby
notify that copies of the rules made by the Southland
Acclimatization Society on the 12th day of March, 1925,
have been forwarded to me and were approved on the 20th
day of April, 1925.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., North Canterbury 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 30th day of June, 1925 (both days inclusive), to
be an open season in the North 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
native game—viz., grey duck, spoonbill duck (or shoveller),
and black swan; and 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 said district for the taking or killing of the
following imported game—viz., Californian quail; and the
period from the 1st day of May to the 7th day of May, 1925
(both days inclusive), to be an open season for the taking or
killing of the following imported game—viz., Canadian goose;
and the period from the 1st day of May to the 7th day of May,
1925 (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, 1926 (both days inclusive), to be
an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of
the following native game—viz., godwits and knots; subject
to the following conditions.
CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game, including godwits and knots, 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 the
   following native game—viz., grey duck, spoonbill duck (or
   shoveller), paradise duck, and black swan—will be issued to
   any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and
   licenses to take or kill the following native game—viz., god-
   wits and knots—will be issued to any person on payment of
   ten shillings (10s.) each; and the secretary of the North
   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 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, spoonbill duck (or
   shoveller), and five head of paradise duck, and two head of
   Canadian goose.
3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
   and native game, including godwits and knots (or native
   game only, including godwits and knots), shall authorize
   the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and
   native game, including godwits and knots (or native game
   only, including godwits and knots), 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, 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 £20.
   FIRST SCHEDULE.
   All that area in the Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury
   Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Whitcombe
   Pass, and proceeding north-easterly along the summit of the
   Southern Alps and the Spencer Mountains to Mount Humboldt ; thence along a right line to Barefell Pass, a right line
   to Palmer Saddle, and thence down to the Conway River to
   its mouth; thence southerly along the sea-coast to Rakaia
   River, and up that river to its source at Whitcombe Pass, the
   point 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 :—
7. All that area in the County of Akaroa, situated in the
   Akaroa and Ellesmere Survey Districts, Canterbury Land
   District, containing by admeasurement 1,540 acres, more or
   less, being the lake known as Lake Forsyth, including all
   roads fronting on the shores of the said lake; and all those
   reserves in the said county and survey districts numbered
   3186, 3187, 3185, 2903, 890, and 157, excluding therefrom
   Native Reserve 385 adjoining Lake Forsyth, and those portions
   of R.S. 2474, 4804, and 6012, being the flat land adjoining
   Okute and Little River Streams and Lake Forsyth.
8. Ahuriri Lagoon.
9. Horse-shoe Lake.
10. Glenmark Lagoon.
11. Cheviot Lagoon.
12. All that area within one mile on each side of the West
    Coast (Christchurch – Hokitika) Road from Springfield to
    Dillmanstown.
    As witness my hand this 20th day of April, 1925.
    RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
    Minister of Internal Affairs.
    [NOTE.—The above notification is published in substitution
    for that published on page 955 of the New Zealand Gazette
    No. 22, of the 1st April, 1925.]
    Shooting Season for Imported Game (Sambur or Ceylon Deer),
    Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, Rangitikei, and
    Horowhenua.
    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 notify that the following imported game
    —viz., Sambur or Ceylon deer –may be taken or killed within
    the counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, Rangitikei, and
    Horowhenua (hereinafter called the said district), subject to
    the following conditions.
    CONDITIONS.
13. Such deer may be taken or killed within the said district
    from the 1st day of June, 1925, to the 31st day of July, 1925,
    both days inclusive.
14. A license to take or kill such deer may be issued to any
    person applying for same on payment of the sum of £2, and