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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Westland Land District bounded on the north by the Punakaiki or Deadman’s River to its source on the Paparoa Range; thence by the summit of that range to Mount Faraday, down the Otututu River and up the Grey River to the nearest point thereof to Mount Haast; along a right line to Mount Haast and along the summit of the southern watershed of the Maruia River to the summit of the Southern Alps; thence southerly along the summit of the range to the Hurunui Saddle, the source of the Taramakau River; thence down the said Taramakau River to the sea-coast; and thence northerly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Punakaiki stream, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds and fallow-deer bucks and does within the Grey District Acclimatization District, from the 26th day of March, 1929, to the 30th day of June, 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 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
……………, Chief Postmaster

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1929.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/20/11.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Wellington Acclimatization District.

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 28th day of March, 1929, to the 31st day of May, 1929 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Wellington Acclimatization District as described in the First Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred to in condition No. 6 and in the Second Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game—viz., red-deer stags and hinds and sambur deer stags and hinds—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds and sambur deer stags and hinds may be issued by the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £2, in the form prescribed in the Third 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 three red deer stags or three sambur deer stags: Provided that not more than three stags in all may be taken or killed by any one licensee; and provided further no red-deer stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten 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 Wellington Acclimatization Society, Wellington, 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 and sambur deer stags and hinds shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill red-deer stags or hinds or sambur 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 Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Wangaehu River, and proceeding thence up the middle of that river to a point 18 chains due west of the western boundary of Block XIV, Mangawhero Survey District; thence south-easterly along a right line, passing through Okaipe Trig. Station, to the summit of the eastern watershed of the Wangaehu River; north-easterly along the summit of that watershed to Trig. Station DD (Maungakaretu); along a right line to the south-western corner of Section 1, Block X, Maungakaretu Survey District; along the south-western boundary of said Section 1 and the southern boundaries generally of Ruanui Blocks Nos. 2B 7, 2B 6, 2B 5, 2B 4, and 2B 3, and along the middle of the Panemango Stream to its junction with Tomakomako Stream; thence along a right line to Trig. Station 32; along a right line to Trig. Station 16 (Kanaeke), a right line to Trig. Station Auahitotara, a right line to Trig. Station Te Rotete, a right line to Trig Station 28 (Manukaiapu), a right line to Trig. Station 27 (Motumatai), and along a right line in the direction of Trig. Station 26 (Tawakitohunga) to the Rangitikei River; thence down the middle of that river to its intersection by a right line between Trig. Stations 32 and E (Aorangi); thence along that line to Aorangi, and along a right line in the direction of the confluence of the Makaroro and Waipawa Rivers, to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence southerly along the summit of that range to the source of the Pourangaki Stream; down the middle of that stream, the middle of the Kawhatau Stream, and the middle of the Rangitikei River, to the Awahuri–Bulls Road; along that road to the Oroua River at Awahuri; up the middle of that river to the North Island Main Trunk Railway line; along that railway-line, along Stony Creek Road, and along the Palmerston–Ashhurst Road to Section 457; thence along the south-western boundaries of Sections 457 and 456 to the Manawatu River; thence up the middle of that river and along the provincial district boundary to the sea at the mouth of the Waimata River; thence along the sea-coast southerly, westerly, and northerly, passing Cape Palliser and Cape Terawhiti to the mouth of the Wangaehu River, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Excluded Areas.

All that area of land in the Huaranga Survey District in the counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South, being Sections 29 to 41 (inclusive), 59, 71, 72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 87, and 84 (in the occupation of Mr. John Martin and Mr. Featherston Johnston, and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station).

Also all that piece of land containing 6,500 acres being parts of Blocks VIII, IX, X, and XVII, Rimutaka Survey District, and shown on the Crown lands provisional map of the Hutt County as a timber and water reserve, the said land being the catchment area for the Wellington City Councils’ reservoir situated at Wainui-o-mata.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £2, is hereby authorized to take or kill three red-deer stags, of not less than ten points, or three sambur deer stags: Provided that not more than three stags in all may be taken or killed by any one licensee and an unlimited number of hinds of both breeds, within the Wellington Acclimatization District described in the endorsement hereon, from the 28th day of March, 1929, to the 31st day of May, 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 and sambur 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 or sambur 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 , 1929.
……………, Secretary,
Wellington Acclimatization Society.