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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 or cause to be used on any lake, pond, lagoon, mere, estuary, or other dead water any power-boat for the purpose of taking or killing, whether by himself or any other person by driving, chasing, frightening, or stalking any imported or native game. For the purposes of this clause “power-boat” means and includes any launch, boat, canoe, or other similar craft propelled either wholly or partly by mechanical power: Provided always that this clause shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of any power-boat for camping purposes or for the purpose of travelling to or from a rendezvous or generally, or to prohibit shooting from a moored power-boat.

8. It shall be an offence for any person to aid, incite, abet, or procure the commission of any act prohibited under section 7 hereof.

9. 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, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the Puwhenua Trig. Station (situated in Block VII, Tapapa East Survey District), and proceeding north-west along a right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station to a point due west from Otanewainuku Trig. Station in Block XVI, Otanewainuku Survey District; thence due east along a right line to that trig. station and again due east along that line produced to a point due south of Trig. Station J1 in Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a right line running due north through Trig. J1 aforesaid to high-water mark, Bay of Plenty; thence along high-water mark, Bay of Plenty, in a south-easterly direction to the western side of Maraetotara Road (Block III, Whakatane Survey District); thence along the western side of that road to its junction with the Nukuhou-Maraetotara Road (Whakatane-Opotiki main road); thence along the western side of the last-named road to its junction with the Nukuhou (Waimana-Ohiwa) Road; thence along the western side of that road to the “confiscation line”; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary-line of Waimana 1e Block; thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 21, Block IV, Waimana Survey District, and the south-eastern side of Waimana 1c and 1d to Paitaua; thence along the south-western boundary of Waimana 1d Block to the Waimana or Tauranga River; thence up that river to its source; thence south-westerly along summit of range to Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence south-easterly along a right line in the direction of Puketapu Trig. Station to its intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII, Tuahu Survey District; thence down that river to the northern boundary of S.G.R. 84, and thence along the northern boundary of said S.G.R. 84 and along the northern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block VIII, Tuahu Survey District, to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana Road; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to Bushy Knoll Road; thence along the middle of that, road to the northern-most, corner of Section 2, Block IS, Hangaroa Survey District; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 1, Block TX aforesaid; thence south-easterly generally along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 4, Block IX aforesaid; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of Tauwharetoi 4b Block; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of said block and Tauwharetoi 3b 1 Block, and along the south-eastern boundary of Tauwharetoi 3a Block to the Hangaroa River; thence down the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ruakituri River; thence along a right line to the sea at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu Survey District); thence southerly along high-water mark of the sea to the southernmost point of Mahia Peninsula; thence along high-water mark, Hawke’s Bay, to the mouth of the Mohaka River; thence to and up the middle of the Mohaka River to a point in line with Trig. Stations 68a and 65a; thence along that line to said Trig. Station 65a; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki Tohunga, in Block XII, Mangamairo Survey District; thence south-westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 27; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 28, Manukaiapu; thence north-westerly along a right line to Ruapehu Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line to Paretetaitonga Trig. Station; thence towards the north-east along a right line to Ngauruhoe Trig. Station; thence northerly along a right line to Tongariro Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line in the direction of the mouth of the Waihi Stream, Lake Taupo, to the Wanganui River; thence down the middle of that river to the western boundary of the Waione Block, and northerly along that boundary to Maungaku Trig. Station; thence northerly along a mountain range passing through Haukungaroa, Motere, Tuhingamata, and Weraroa Trig. Stations to the source of the Ongaruhe River; thence north-westerly along a right line to Rangitoto Mountain; and thence north-easterly along a right line to Puwhenua Trig. Station, the place of commencement; and including White and Whale Islands and the Ru Rima Rocks.

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. Lakes Ngahewa, Okataina, Rotokawa or Bitter Lake near Taupo, and Rotoaira, and the land within one mile of the shores of these lakes.

2. All land and water within one mile of the Okere Wharf.

3. All that area of land and water in the Auckland Land District comprised in the properties of Messrs. Gee and Sons, and G. W. Vaughan, Esq., on the Rotorua-Maketu Road, including Lake Rotokawa and adjacent lands. (Note: The plan of this area has been supplied to the Department of Internal Affairs.)

4. That portion of Lake Taupo bounded by right line commencing at a point at the mouth of the Kurutau River and running in an easterly direction across the lake in a right line to the mouth of the Tauranga-Taupo River; thence by the shore of Lake Taupo in a south-western direction to Waihi; thence in a northerly direction to the mouth of the Kouratau River, being the point of commencement.

5. The property of John B. Lawrie, Esq., comprising 100 acres on the Taupo and Atiamuri Roads, near Rotorua.

6. Section 2, Block II, Section 2, Block III, and Sections 10 and 11, Block VII, all of Tarawera Survey District, together with the lake known as Lake Okareka.

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., South Canterbury 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 31st day of July, 1928 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the South Canterbury Acclimatization District, as described in the First Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred to in condition No. 3 and in the Second Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game and native game—viz., mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, and black swan; and the period from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of March, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open 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, 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 or kill such native game only, including godwits, will be issued to any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the secretary of the South 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 imported game and native game, or native game only, that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed twelve mallard duck, ten godwits, twenty head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, black teal, and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and native game, including godwits (or native game only, including 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, 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