New Zealand Gazette – 1926 – No. 14

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✨ Game Hunting Regulations



Notice respecting Native and Imported Game.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th March, 1926.

T HE attention of sportsmen and others is called to the
following provisions of the Animals Protection and
Game Act, 1921–22.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT, 1921–22.

SECTION 6. (3.) Every reserve under the Scenery Preservation
Act, 1908, shall be deemed to be a sanctuary under
the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.
(4.) Every person who unlawfully takes or kills any animal
within a sanctuary is liable to a fine of ten pounds for every
such offence, and to a further fine of one pound for each
animal so taken or killed.
Section 9. The season for taking and killing imported or
native game opens on the 1st day of May, 1926, and closes
on the 31st day of July, 1926, unless otherwise specified in
the Warrant fixing the open season in any district.
Section 11. (1.) No imported or native game shall be
trapped or taken by means of traps or by a y other means
than by hunting or shooting, nor shall any trap, net, or
snare be erected or set for the purpose of such trapping or
taking at any time whatever, except by any person duly
authorized under section thirty-one of the Animals Protection
and Game Act, 1921–22.
Section 12. (1.) No person shall kill or destroy any imported
game or native game, or shoot at, or attempt to shoot at, any
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imported game or native game, with any swivel gun or
pump gun, or use any gun other than a shoulder gun.
(2.) No gun shall be used for the purposes aforesaid the
bore of which is larger than the size known as number twelve
at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which exceeds ten
pounds in weight.
In addition to the above the use of any automatic or
auto-loading gun has been prohibited unless it is converted
into a gun capable of carrying two cartridges only.
The use of any rifle or pea-rifle, or punt-gun, in the taking
or killing of game is also prohibited.
Section 13. (1.) No person shall use any cylinder for the
purpose of taking or killing imported or native game in
any lake or river; nor shall the apparatus known as a
silencer be used on any gun in the taking or killing of
imported game or native game.
(2.) No person shall use any live decoys for the purpose
of taking or killing imported game or native game.
Section 14. (1.) No person shall take or kill any imported
game or native game during an open season in any district
unless he is the holder of a license under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, to take or kill imported
game or native game in such district during that
season:
Provided, however, that the occupier of property, and any one
son or daughter of such occupier, may take or kill without
license during an open season imported or native game which
may be taken in the acclimatization district in which such
property is situated, or the occupier may in writing appoint
one other person to shoot in his stead.
The fee for a license to take or kill both imported and
native game is one pound (£1): Provided that in the Lakes,
Nelson, North Canterbury, Otago, and South Canterbury
Acclimatization Districts a separate license to take or kill



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🌾 Notice respecting Native and Imported Game

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
11 March 1926
Game hunting, Regulations, Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22
  • Richd. F. Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs