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imported game or native game on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on a n y sanctuary or public domain.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any snob imported game or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such imported game or native game, with any automatic ‘I 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 particular water within an area of 100 yards square.

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

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

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Taranaki and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Taungatara Stream and proceeding thence up the middle of that stream to Mount Egmont ; along a right line to the north-eastern corner of Section 11, Block VI, Kaupokonui Survey District, along the eastern boundaries of Sections 11, 13, 16, and 1, Block VI,, the northern boundaries of Section 79, Block X, and Sections 80, 81, 103, and 107, Block II ; northwards along the middle of Palmer Road ; eastwards along the northern boundaries of Sections 29, 31, and 32, Block VIII, Kaupokonui; north-westerly along Hastings Road ; and easterly along Finnerty Road, to the Waingongoro River ; down the middle of that river ; along the northern boundary of Block X, Ngaiire Survey District ; south-easterly along Korepu Road and Ngaiire Road ; northerly along Oru Road to the north-western boundary of Section 35, Block XI, Ngaiire Survey District; thence slant that boundary and the north-eastern boundary of said Section 35 and of Section 36 to the northern boundary of Block XI, aforesaid ; easterly along that block boundary to the south-western boundary of Subdivision 16, Pukengahu Block ; along that boundary and the south-eastern boundary of said Subdivision 16, the north-eastern boundary of Subdivision 15 to Trig. Station B (Rahui) ; along the northern boundary of Block XII, Ngaiire Survey District, to Section I,, Block VIII: thence by the western and northern boundaries of said Section 11 to the Pates. River; down that river, and along the southern boundary of Subdivision 7 , Matemateonga Block. the eastern boundaries of Subdivisions 7 and 6 to the northernmost corner of Section 1 of Subdivision 1 of Matemateonga Block; thence along’ the southern boundary of Section 8, Block II, Omona Survey District, the western boundaries of Sections 14 and 11, Block VII, the southern boundaries of Sections 11 and 12, Block VII, the southern boundary of Section 5, Block VIII, Omona Survey District; across Moawatea Road ; along the western boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block V, Taurakawa Survey District, the southern boundaries of Sections 2 and 3, Block V, and along the southern boundaries of Blocks VI, VII, and VIII, Taurakawa Survey District, to a range forming the county boundary, and along that range passing through Waitu and Manga-rau Trig. to the Pokeka Road; thence by the Pokeka-Pipiriki Road to the Watershed Road forming thr western boundary of Section 5, Block IV, Momahaki Survey District ; thence southerly along Watershed Road to the southern boundary of Mangapapa No. lo Block; thence westerly along the said southern boundary to the western boundary of Lot 1, Mangapapa 1a Block ; thence generally southerly along the western boundaries of Lots 1 and 3, Mangapapa 1a Block, to the Manganui-o-tahu Stream ; thence down that stream to the western boundary of the Manganui-o-tahu Block ; thence by the western and southern boundaries of the Manganui-o-tahu Block to Pakira Trig. Station; thence westerly to Orangi-hongi Trig. Station; thence southerly along the western boundaries of Lots 14 and 17 on plan 918, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington, and the eastern boundary of Lot 4, plan 659, deposited as aforesaid, to south-eastern corner of Lot 4 aforesaid ; thence down the Mangaone Stream to the. eastern boundary of Section 16, Block V, Nukumaru Survey District. ; thence along the said eastern boundary to Wharekaranga Trig. Station ; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the said Section 16 to the Mangaone Stream ; thence down the Mangaone Stream

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to the Waitotara River ; thence down the Waitotara River to the sea-coast ; and thence north-westerly along the se&coast to the mouth of the Taungatara Stream. the place of commencement.

As witness my hand this 14th day of March, 1928.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fees, &c., Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District.

In exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, Maui Pomare, Acting Minister Of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of May to the 30th day of June, 1928 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Hawke’s Bay 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., cook pheasants, Californian quail, Australian quail, mallard duck, grey duck, widgeon, and black swan ; and the period from the 1st day of January to the 28th day of February, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an “pen 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, 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 only-viz., godwits—will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each ; and the Secretary of the Hawke’s Bay 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 five cock pheasants, twenty Californian quail, ten Australian quail, five mallard duck, and twenty-five head in all of grey duck, widgeon, and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and native game (including godwits) or native game only —viz., godwits—shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native game (including godwits) or native game only—viz., 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 particular water within an area of less than 100 yards square.

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

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

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, Mangamaiire 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 6A ; 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 River to the sea ; 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 Akito County; thence by the northern boundaries of Waimata and Mount Cerberus Survey Districts