2886
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Open Season for Red-deer Shooting, Otago Acclimatization District (Hunter Valley and Makarora Districts).

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of April, 1930, to the 20th day of May, 1930 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Otago 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 Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society, 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: 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.

2. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him. Ball cartridge only to be used; provided that no metal-patched or metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.

3. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

4. Regulations as to 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 Otago Acclimatization Society, Dunedin, 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.

5. 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.

6. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

7. Nothing in this warrant shall apply to deer within the area described in the warrant dated 8th November, 1923, and published in Gazette No. 80, of 15th November, 1923, in which area protection is removed from deer.

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

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area known as Hunter Valley and Makarora Districts.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

License to take or kill Imported Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £5, is hereby authorized to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds within that part of the Otago Acclimatization District known as the Hunter Valley and Makarora Districts, upon Block No. , from the 1st day of April, 1930, to the 20th day of May, 1930 (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 this day of , 1930.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 6th day of November, 1929.

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

(I.A. 25/20/12.)

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 9th November, 1929.

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

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

ELLERSLIE TOWN BOARD.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan of £1,200.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Ellerslie Town District, taken on the 30th day of October, 1929, on the proposal of the Ellerslie Town Board to borrow a sum of £1,200 for the purpose of extending the sewers connecting houses in the Waitemata watershed adjoining Marua Road and Umere Crescent, the number of votes cast was as follows:—

For the proposal .. .. .. 115
Against the proposal .. .. .. 61

176

And I hereby declare that such proposal was carried.

Dated this 1st day of November, 1929.

A. HEWSON, Chairman.

Date of Election by Fire Insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary Vacancies on Opotiki and Tauranga Fire Boards.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th November, 1929.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules made thereunder, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perelle, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Monday, the 25th November, 1929, to be the date for holding the election of one member of each of the Opotiki and Tauranga Fire Boards by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. Thomas Leslie Binney.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 11/5/35–36.)

Meetings of Auckland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th November, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Auckland Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m., on Tuesday, 21st January, 25th February, 25th March, 29th April, 27th May, 24th June, 29th July, 26th August, 30th September, Wednesday, 29th October, Tuesday, 25th November, and 16th December, during the year 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Meetings of North Auckland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th November, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the North Auckland Land Board being held at the Land Board Room, Government Buildings, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd January, 26th February, 26th March, 23rd April, 28th May, 25th June, 23rd July, 27th August, 24th September, 22nd October, 19th November, and 17th December, during the year 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Notice of Alteration of Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Hawera during the Week ending 23rd November, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 22 of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, I, William Andrew Veitch, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that, during the week ending 23rd November, 1929, the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Hawera shall be observed on Thursday, 21st November, in lieu of Wednesday, 20th November, and that the closing-hour specified for Thursday shall, in that week, be deemed to be specified for Wednesday.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of November, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, Minister of Labour.