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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20.

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, pukeko, 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., godwits 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 each of paradise duck and pukeko; 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 one hour before sunrise and must cease not later than one 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 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:—

1. 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.

2. Ahuriri Lagoon.

3. Horse-shoe Lake.

4. Glenmark Lagoon.

5. Cheviot Lagoon.

6. 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 26th day of March, 1926.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

[NOTE.—The above notification is published in substitution for that published on page 641 of New Zealand Gazette No. 14 of 14th March, 1926.]

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for E. Franks, G. Ricketts, and W. Smith, Hobart.

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 hereunder 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 any of the said persons shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to any 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.

E. Franks, 94, Argyle Street, Hobart.
G. Ricketts, 94, Argyle Street, Hobart.
W. Smith, 9, Melville Street, Hobart.

Dated this 27th day of March 1926.

C. J. PARR, Postmaster-General.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 25th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long-service Medal to Lieutenant-Colonel R. Wyman, D.S.O., 4th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Waikato).

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 27th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence rifle club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909:—

Rangitikei Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Bull's.

Dated 6th March, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Dismissals from the Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 27th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned soldiers of the Territorial Force from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, they having been convicted by the Civil power:—

SOUTHERN DEPOT, CORPS OF NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS.
Sapper C. S. J. Dell.
Sapper V. T. A. Gray.

Dated 20th March, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Government Railway Department.

NEW CAR AND WAGON SHOPS AT OTAHUHU NEAR AUCKLAND.

WRITTEN tenders will be received up to noon on the 30th September, 1926, at the office of the Railway Board, Wellington, New Zealand, for the erection of new car and wagon workshops at Otahuhu, near Auckland.

Plans, specifications, and conditions of contract may be seen at the offices enumerated below:—

United Kingdom .. The office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London.
Canada .. The office of the Department of Labour, Ottawa.
Australia .. The New Zealand Government Offices at Sydney and Melbourne.
New Zealand .. The Chief Engineer’s Office, Railway Buildings, Wellington.
The Railway Engineer’s Offices at Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Telegraphic tenders will not be considered.

By Order.