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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Francis Joseph Rolleston, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd day of April, 1928, to the 16th day of June, 1928 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be issued by the secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £2, in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification: Provided that not more than one license shall be issued to the same person.

2. A licensee may, pursuant to a license issued under this notification, take or kill an unlimited number of stags and hinds: Provided that no stags are taken or killed carrying antlers with less than eight points.

3. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no metal-patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.

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 Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization Society, Napier, 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 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.

7. 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 Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington Land Districts, commencing at a point in the centre of the Rangitikei River with the intersection of a right line running between Trig. Stations 27 and 26, Tawaki-Tohunga, and situated in Blocks XV and XII, Mangamaire Survey District, respectively; thence towards the north generally by a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki-Tohunga; thence by a right line to Trig. Station 65A; thence by a right line in a north-easterly direction through Trig. Station 68A to the middle of the Mohaka River; thence by the middle of the Mohaka and Taharua Rivers to a point in line with the north-western corner of Wharetoto No. 8 Subdivision B Block; thence by a right line to the intersection of the Taupo–Napier Road with the western boundary of Wharetoto No. 9 Block; thence by a right line running in the direction of the most northern shore of Lake Waikaremoana to its intersection with the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4 Block; thence by that boundary to Maungataniwha Trig. Station in Tuatawhata Survey District; thence by the leading spur and the western watershed of Te Hoe River to a point on the Hautapu River due east of Pohokura Trig. Station; thence by a right line to Pohokura Trig. Station aforesaid; thence by the eastern watershed of the Mokomokonui Stream to the Tataraoikino Mountain; thence by the leading spur to the confluence of the Mohaka and Waipunga Rivers; thence by the leading spur to Trig. Station 69A, Taraponui; thence by the leading spur and the southern watershed of the Waikare River to the sea at Moeangiangi; thence towards the east generally by high-water mark of the sea to the middle of the Waimata River, being the north-eastern corner of Waimata Survey District in Akitio County; thence by the northern boundaries of Waimata and Mount Cerberus Survey Districts and the northern boundary of Wellington Land District to the middle of the Manawatu River; thence by the middle of the Manawatu River to a point in line with the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence to and by the summit of that range to a right line running between Aorangi Trig. Station and the confluence of the northern branch of the Waipawa River with the Makaroro River; thence by that line to Aorangi Trig. Station; thence by a right line running in the direction of trig. numbered 32 to the middle of the Rangitikei River, and by the middle of that river to the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of
, having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill an unlimited number of red-deer stags with antlers of not less than eight points and an unlimited number of hinds within the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District, from the 2nd day of April, 1928, to the 16th day of June, 1928 (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 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 , 1928.

…………Secretary,
Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization Society.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/20/7.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Buller Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Francis Joseph Rolleston, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 17th day of March, 1928, to the 30th day of June, 1928 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Buller Acclimatization District, described in the First Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Westport, on payment of a license fee of £1, in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

2. No licensee shall take or kill more than four red-deer stags, and no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than eight points. A licensee may, pursuant to a license issued under this notification, take or kill an unlimited number of hinds. 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 Buller Acclimatization Society, Westport, 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 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.

7. Any person committing a breach of any of these conditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area comprising the Buller and Inangahua Counties bounded towards the north-west generally by a line starting at a point on the Tasman Sea coast at Kohaihai Bluff, in Block XIII, Whakapoi Survey District, and proceeding up