3624
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and all regulations and notifications affecting red deer and fallow deer 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 or fallow-deer bucks or does 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 , 1929.
……………, Postmaster.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of December, 1928.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/20/14.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Southland Acclimatization District (Fiordland National Park).

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 23rd day of March, 1929, to the 31st day of May, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Southland Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—and the period from the 1st day of March, 1929, to the 31st day of May, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., wapiti stags—within that part of the said acclimatization district comprising the Fiordland National Park, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Warrant made under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, published in the New Zealand Gazette of 22nd April, 1925, and in the Warrants published in the New Zealand Gazette of 13th December, 1928, red deer (stags and hinds), and wapiti stags may be taken or killed within the Fiordland National Park, Southland, during the periods hereinbefore mentioned, by persons to whom licenses may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill, pursuant to the Warrants published in the New Zealand Gazette of 13th December, 1928, declaring an open season for deer-shooting in the Southland Acclimatization District, subject, however, to the conditions fixed in those Warrants.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of December, 1928.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/20.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Westland Acclimatization District (Okuru Block), South Westland.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of March, 1929, to the 30th day of April, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in that part of the Westland 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 Postmaster at Hokitika on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Westland Acclimatization Society at Hokitika, on payment of a license fee of £5, in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and regulations thereunder and this notification. The number of such licenses to be issued by the said Postmaster shall not exceed two: Provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person, and also that stalkers shall shoot only on the blocks specified in their respective licenses, and if the number of applications received for licenses exceed the number of available licenses, then the persons to whom such licenses are to be issued shall be decided by ballot.

2. No licensee shall take or kill more than four stags. A licensee may also, pursuant to a license issued under this notification, take or kill an unlimited number of old hinds and stags with deformed heads. 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 Westland Acclimatization Society, Hokitika, 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 comprised in the Westland Acclimatization District, known as the Okuru Block, South Westland.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £5, is hereby authorized to take or kill four red-deer stags, also an unlimited number of old hinds and stags with deformed heads, within that part of the Westland Acclimatization District known as the Okuru Block, South Westland, upon Block No. , from the 1st day of March, 1929, to the 30th day of April, 1929 (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 Hokitika this day of , 1929.
……………, Postmaster.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 18th day of December, 1928.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/20/3.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Westland Acclimatization District (Kokatahi and Arahura Districts).

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of March, 1929, to the 30th day of April, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Westland Acclimatization District for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds—within that part of the said acclimatization district described in the First Schedule hereto, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be issued by the Postmaster at Hokitika, 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 such license shall be issued to the same person.

2. Ball cartridge only to be used: Provided that no metal-patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.