Manager in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue
the said licenses.

2. The number of such imported and native game that
   may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day
   shall not exceed ten cock pheasants, six mallard duck, and
   twenty head in all of black teal, grey duck, eastern golden
   plover, turnstone, and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
   and native game, including godwits and knots, or the following
   native game only—viz., godwits and knots—shall authorize
   the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native
   game, including godwits and knots, or godwits and knots
   only, 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 con-
   ditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, and
Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at
the Puwhenua Trig. Station (situated in Block VII, Tapapa
East Survey District), and proceeding north-west along a
right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station to a point
due west from Otanewainuku Trig. Station in Block XVI,
Otanewainuku Survey District; thence due east along a
right line to that trig. station and again due east along that
line produced to a point due south of Trig. Station J1 in
Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a
right line running due north through Trig. J1 aforesaid to
high-water mark, Bay of Plenty; thence along high-water
mark, Bay of Plenty, in a south-easterly direction to the
western side of Maraetotara Road (Block III, Whakatane
Survey District); thence along the western side of that road
to its junction with the Nukuhou-Maraetotara Road (Whaka-
tane-Opotiki main road); thence along the western side of the
last-named road to its junction with the Nukuhou (Waimana-
Ohia) Road; thence along the western side of that road to
the “confiscation line”; thence south-easterly along the
north-eastern boundary-line of Waimana lE Block; thence
along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of
Section 21, Block IV, Waimana Survey District, and the
south-eastern side of Waimana lo and ld to Paitaua; thence
along the south-western boundary of Waimana ld Block to
the Waimana or Tauranga River; thence up that river to its
source; thence south-westerly along summit of range to
Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence south-easterly along
a right line in the direction of Puketapu Trig. Station to its
intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII, Tuahu
Survey District; thence down that river to the northern
boundary of S.G.R. 84, and thence along the northern
boundary of said S.G.R. 84 and along the northern and
south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block VIII, Tuahu
Survey District, to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana Road; thence
north-easterly along the middle of that road to Bushy Knoll
Road; thence along the middle of that road to the northern-
most corner of Section 2, Block IX, Hangaroa Survey District;
then along the eastern boundary of Section 1, Block IX
aforesaid; thence south-easterly generally along the north-
eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 4, Block IX aforesaid;
then north-easterly along the north-western boundary of
Tauwharetoti 4B Block; thence along the north-eastern
boundaries of said block and Tauwharetoti 3B 1 Block, and
along the south-eastern boundary of Tauwharetoti 3A Block
to the Hangaroa River; thence down the middle of that
river to its confluence with the Ruakituri River; thence
along a right line to the sea at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu
Survey District); thence southerly along high-water mark of
the sea to the southernmost point of Mahia Peninsula; thence
along high-water mark, Hawke’s Bay, to the mouth of the
Mohaka River; thence to and up the middle of the Mohaka
River to a point in line with Trig. Stations 68A and 65A;
then along that line to said Trig. Station 65A; thence westerly
along a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki Tohunga, in
Block XII, Mangamaire Survey District; thence south-westerly
along a right line to Trig. Station 27; thence westerly along a
right line to Trig. Station 28, Manukaiapu; thence north-

westerly along a right line to Ruapehu Trig. Station; thence
north-easterly along a right line to Pareteaitonga Trig.
Station; thence towards the north-east along a right line to
Ngauruhoe Trig. Station; thence northerly along a right line to
Tongariro Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a
right line in the direction of the mouth of the Waihi Stream,
Lake Taupo, to the Wanganui River; thence down the
middle of that river to the western boundary of the Waione
Block, and northerly along that boundary to Maungaku
Trig. Station; thence northerly along a mountain range
passing through Hauhungarooa, Motere, Tuhingamata, and
Werarora Trig. Stations to the source of the Ongaruhe River;
thence north-westerly along a right line to Rangitoto Mountain
and thence north-easterly along a right line to Puwhenua Trig.
Station, the place of commencement : and including White and
Whale Islands and the Ru Rima Rocks.

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 :

1. Lakes Ngahewa, Okataina, Rotokawa or Bitter Lake
   near Taupo, and Rotoaira, and the land within one mile
   of the shores of these lakes.

2. All land and water within one mile of the Okere Wharf.

3. All that area of land and water in the Auckland Land
   District comprised in the properties of Messrs. Gee and Sons,
   and G. W. Vaughan, Esq., on the Rotorua-Maketu Road,
   including Lake Rotokawa and adjacent lands. (Note : The
   plan of this area has been supplied to the Department of
   Internal Affairs.)

4. That portion of Lake Taupo bounded by right line
   commencing at a point at the mouth of the Kurutau River
   and running in an easterly direction across the lake in a
   right line to the mouth of the Tauranga-Taupo River ; thence
   by the shore of Lake Taupo in a south-western direction to
   Waihi ; thence in a northerly direction to the mouth of the
   Kouratau River, being the point of commencement.

5. The property of John B. Lawrie, Esq., comprising 100
   acres on the Taupo and Atiamuri Roads, near Rotorua.

As witness my hand this 11th day of March, 1926.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., South 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 31st day of July, 1926 (both days inclusive), to
be an open season in the South 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
imported game and native game—viz., mallard duck, grey
duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, and black swan; and the
period from the 1st day of May to the 7th day of May, 1926
(both days inclusive), to be an open season in that portion of
the County of Mackenzie forming part of the South Canter-
bury Acclimatization 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, 1927
(both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district
for the taking or killing of the following native game—viz.,
godwits ; subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game, including godwits, 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, including godwits, will be issued to any person on pay-
   ment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the secretary of the
   South Canterbury Acclimatization Society, or any person
   authorized by such secretary in that behalf, is hereby autho-
   rized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such imported game and native game,
   or native game only, that may be taken or killed by any one
   person in any one day shall not exceed twelve mallard duck,
   ten godwits, six paradise duck, twenty head in all of grey
   duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and
   native game, including godwits (or native game only, includ-
   ing 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 ex-