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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

of March, 1928, to be an open season in the said district for
the taking and killing of the following native game—viz., god-
wits; 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 and kill the following native game
   only—viz., godwits—will be issued to any person on payment
   of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the secretary of
   the Feilding and District 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 imported game and native game
   that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one
   day shall not exceed twenty-five head of each kind of such
   imported game and twenty-five head in all of such native
   game.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and
   native game (including godwits) or native game only (in-
   cluding 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 exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society
   for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
   domain.

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. No live birds of any species shall be used as decoys, nor
   shall more than twenty-five artificial decoys be used at any
   one time (whether by one or several persons), on any par-
   ticular water within an area of less than 100 yards square.

7. No person shall use any power boat or launch in con-
   nection with the taking or killing of imported or native game.

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

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded
towards the north by the Kawhatau and Pourangaki Streams
from the Rangitikei River to the summit of the Ruahine
Range; thence towards the east generally by the summit
of that range to the Manawatu Gorge, and by the Manawatu
River to the Raukawa Road; thence towards the south
generally by that road which forms the north-eastern bound-
aries of Sections Nos. 455 and 454, Block VIII, Kairanga
Survey District, to the Palmerston—Ashhurst Road; thence
by that road to Stony Creek Road; thence by that road
and the railway-line to the Oroua River; thence by that
river to Awahuri; and thence by the Awahuri—Bull’s Road
to the Rangitikei River; and towards the north-west generally
by the Rangitikei River to the Kawhatau Stream, the place
of commencement.

As witness my hand this 14th day of March, 1927.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., Grey 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 2nd day of
May to the 31st day of July, 1927 (both days inclusive), to be
an open season in the Grey District Acclimatization District,
as described in the Schedule hereto, except in the areas
referred to in condition No. 3, for the taking or killing of the
following imported game and native game—viz., hares, grey
duck, and black swan—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game only
   within the said district will be issued to any person on
   payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and
   licenses to take or kill such native game only within the
   said district will be issued to any person on payment
   of the sum of 10s. (ten shillings) each; and the Chief
   Postmaster at Greymouth and the Postmasters at Ahaura,
   Blackball, Brunnerton, Moana, Nelson Creek, Ngahere, Otira,
   Roa, Runanga, Stillwater, Totara Flat, and Waiuta are
   hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such imported game and native game
   that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one
   day shall not exceed twenty hares, and twenty head in all
   of grey duck and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game or
   native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill
   imported game or native game on lands actually and exclu-
   sively used by any registered acclimatization society for
   acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
   domain.

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. No live birds of any species shall be used as decoys, nor
   shall more than twenty-five artificial decoys be used at any
   one time (whether by one or several persons) on any par-
   ticular water within an area of less than 100 yards square.

7. No person shall use any power boat or launch in con-
   nection with the taking or killing of imported or native game.

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

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Westland Land District bounded on
the north by the Punakaiki or Deadman’s River to its source
on the Paparoa Range; thence by the summit of that range
to Mount Faraday; down the Otututu River and up the Grey
River to the nearest point thereof to Mount Haast; along
a right line to said Mount Haast, and along the summit of
the southern watershed of the Maruia River to the summit
of the Southern Alps; thence southerly along the summit
of the range to the Hurunui Saddle, the source of the Tara-
makau River; thence down the said Taramakau River to
the sea-coast; and thence northerly along the sea-coast
to the mouth of the Punakaiki Stream, the place of commence-
ment.

As witness my hand this 14th day of March, 1927.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fee, &c., Hawera 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 2nd day of
May to the 31st day of July, 1927 (both days inclusive), to
be an open season in the Hawera Acclimatization District, as
described in the Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred
to in condition No. 3, for the taking or killing of the following
imported game and native game—viz., cock pheasants, Cali-
fornian quail, grey duck, and black swan—subject to the
following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game within the said district will be issued to any person
   on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the
   secretary of the Hawera 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 imported game and native game
   that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one
   day shall not exceed ten cock pheasants, twenty Californian
   quail, and twenty-five head in all of grey duck and black
   swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and
   native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill
   imported game and native game on lands actually and exclu-
   sively used by any registered acclimatization society for
   acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
   domain.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any such imported game
   or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such