Feb. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 397

tion of the secretary of the Lakes District Acclimatization
Society, on payment of a license fee of £4, in the form pre-
scribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said
Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. Pro-
vided that not more than one such license shall be issued to
the same person.

2. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no metal-
   patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such
   deer.

3. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either
   himself or any attendant he may have with him.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

5. Regulations as to the use of marks of identification of
   deer-heads contained in section 6 of the regulations under the
   Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, published in the
   New Zealand Gazette of the 7th February, 1924, page 437, shall
   be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition thereto,
   shall return all unused “tags” to the secretary of the Lakes
   District Acclimatization Society, Queenstown, immediately
   he has finished stalking for the season for which such
   “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the
   number of deer shot.

6. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and
   hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer
   stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any
   registered acclimatization society for acclimatization pur-
   poses, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any
   land excepted from the operation of the notification declaring
   an open season for the district.

7. The licensee must give notice to the said Postmaster of
   the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such
   notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear
   days before such date.

8. Any person committing a breach of any of these condi-
   tions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area known as the Aspiring, Upper Wanaka,
Wilkins, and Matukituki Districts.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of
£4, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags and
hinds within that part of the Lakes District Acclima-
tization District known as the Aspiring, Upper Wanaka,
Wilkins, and Matukituki Districts, from the 31st day of
March, 1926, to the 21st day of May, 1926 (both
days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and all regulations and
notifications affecting red-deer stags and hinds made there-
under and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take
or kill red-deer stags or hinds on lands actually and ex-
clusively used by any registered acclimatization society for
acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
domain, or on any land excepted from the operation of the
notification declaring an open season for the district.

Dated at this day of , 1926.

……………, Postmaster.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of
February, 1926.

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

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Open Season for Red-deer Shooting, 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 31st
day of March, 1926, to the 21st day of May, 1926 (both
days inclusive), to be an open season in the Lakes District
Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the
following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—
within that part of the said acclimatization district de-
scribed in the First Schedule hereto, subject to the following
conditions.

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CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be
   issued by the Postmaster at Queenstown, on the recom-
   mendation of the secretary of the Lakes District Acclima-
   tization Society, on payment of a license fee of £4, in the
   form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject
   to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this noti-
   fication. Provided that not more than one such license shall
   be issued to the same person.

2. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no
   metal-patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing
   such deer.

3. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either
   himself or any attendant he may have with him.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

5. Regulations as to the use of marks of identification of
   deer-heads contained in section 6 of the regulations under the
   Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, published in the
   New Zealand Gazette of the 7th February, 1924, page 437, shall
   be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition thereto,
   shall return all unused “tags” to the secretary of the Lakes
   District Acclimatization Society, Queenstown, immediately
   he has finished stalking for the season for which such
   “tags” have been issued, together with a statement of the
   number of deer shot.

6. Nothing in any license to take or kill red-deer stags and
   hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer
   stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively used by any
   registered acclimatization society for acclimatization pur-
   poses, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any
   land excepted from the operation of the notification declaring
   an open season for the district.

7. The licensee must give notice to the said Postmaster of
   the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such
   notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear
   days before such date.

8. Any person committing a breach of any of these condi-
   tions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area known as Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn,
and Dart Valleys.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of
£4, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds
within that part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District,
known as the Glacier Creek, Routeburn, Rockburn, and Dart
Valleys, from the 31st day of March, 1926, to the 21st day
of May, 1926 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions
of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and all
regulations and notifications affecting red-deer stags and
hinds made thereunder and in force within the said district.

This license does not authorize the holder thereof to take
or kill red-deer stags or hinds on lands actually and exclusively
used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatiza-
tion purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on
any land excepted from the operation of the notification de-
claring an open season for the district.

Dated at this day of , 1926.

……………, Postmaster.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of
February, 1926.

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

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Union Islands.—Transfer of Control to New Zealand.

Wellington, 11th February, 1926.

HIS Majesty’s Orders in Council under the Colonial
Boundaries Act, 1895, excluding the Union Islands
from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and making pro-
vision for the administration of the same by New Zealand,
are published hereunder by the authority of His Excellency
the Governor-General of New Zealand, for general informa-
tion.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of External Affairs.

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At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of November,
1925.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Lord Stamfordham. Mr. Walter Guinness.
Secretary Sir W. Joynson- Major George Tryon.
Hicks.

WHEREAS by the Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895, it is provided
that where the boundaries of a colony have, either before or
after the passing of that Act, been altered by Order in Council