APRIL 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1093

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Ernest Valentine Sanderson,

of Paekakariki, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of the first-mentioned Act.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Marine.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 11th April, 1928.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Frederick Charles Cleverley, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Motupiko (at Kohatu), as from the 23rd day of March, 1928.

Charles Leslie Albert Stevenson, Esquire,

to be Assistant Clerk of Magistrates’ Court at Whakatane for the purposes of Section 8 of the Magistrates’ Court Amendment Act, 1922, as from the 2nd day of April, 1928.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 30th March, 1928.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Mangawara Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

MANGAWARA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Mangawara Drainage District was taken on the 3rd day of March, 1928, on the proposal of the Mangawara Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £250 for the constructing and improving of watercourses and drains in, and providing outfalls for water from, the Northern Subdivision of the Board’s district, and to provide for the purchase of any necessary tools, equipment, machinery, or plant for the work and engineering or other incidental expenses arising therefrom.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 22; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 3; the number of informal votes was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 6th day of March, 1928.

R. W. G. RUTHERFURD, Chairman.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fees, &c., Otago Acclimatization District

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, 1, Robert Alexander Wright, 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 Otago 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, Canadian goose, grey duck, spoonbill duck (or widgeon), pukeko, and black swan; and the period from the 1st day of June to the 31st day of July, 1928 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., Californian quail; and the period from the 2nd day of January to the 12th day of February, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season 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 the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Otago 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 in all of mallard duck, Canadian goose, Californian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck (or widgeon), black swan, and pukeko; provided that not more than twelve head per day of pukeko or twenty head per day of Californian quail shall be taken by any one person; provided further that Californian quail shall not be taken or killed in the following districts, viz.: Waikai, Heriot, Hindon, Maungatua, Waihola, Waipori, Salisbury, Pukerangi, and Puerua, nor may more than two head of Canadian goose be taken by any one person during the open season.

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 (or native game only) 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 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 10lb. in weight.

5. A license issued pursuant to this notification to take or kill imported and native game or native game only shall entitle the holder thereof to take or kill native game in the Southland Acclimatization District, during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in the notification fixing an open season for native game in that district.

6. Shooting may begin not earlier than one hour before sunrise and must cease not later than one hour after sunset.

7. 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.

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

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 Otago and Southland Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Broderick’s Pass and proceeding along the summit of the range passing through Mount Huxley, Lindis Pass, to Mount St. Bathans; along a right line due east to and along the summit of the Hawkdun Range, through Mount Domet and along the summit of the Kakanui Range to the source of the Waianakarua River; down that river to the eastern boundary of Section 27, Block III, Waihemo Survey District; south-westerly along that boundary to a public road; south-easterly along that road to the eastern boundary of Section 4, Block XIV, Moeraki Survey District; along that boundary, along the northern and eastern boundaries of Block XII, Moeraki Survey District, to the northern boundary of Section 31; easterly along that boundary to the north-eastern corner of said Section 31; thence along a public road to the southern boundary of Section 43, Block IX, Moeraki Survey District; along the southern boundaries of Sections 43, 44, and 45, all of Block IX, and along the western boundary of Section 1 of 20, Block III, Moeraki, to the sea; thence by the sea to the mouth of the Mataura River; thence up the Mataura River to the north-western boundary of Section 4, Block III, Nokomai Survey District; thence north-easterly along that boundary and the north-western boundary of Section 3, Block III aforesaid, to a public road; across that road, and northerly along same to the northern boundary of Section 2, Block III, Nokomai Survey District; thence north-easterly along the summit of the Hector Mountains passing through Lorn Peak, James Peak, and Ben Nevis to Ben Cruachan; thence easterly through Mount Edward to Mount Rosa; thence by a right line to the confluence of the Nevis and Kawarau Rivers; thence down the Kawarau River to its junction with the Roaring Meg Stream; thence up the Roaring Meg Stream to its source on Mount Pisa; thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Pisa; thence by a right line northerly to