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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 21

3. Nothing in any license to kill take or imported game and native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game or native game on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain.

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 10 lb. in weight.

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

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 any aeroplane, powerboat, or launch in connection with the taking or killing of imported or native game.

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 in the Gisborne Land District bounded by a line commencing at Maungapohatu Trig. Station and proceeding thence along a right line towards Maungatapere Trig. Station to the south-western boundary of Tahora No. 2c 3, Section 2 Block; thence north-westerly along that boundary and its production to a point in line with the north-western boundary of S.G. Run 89; thence to and along that boundary, the north-western boundary of S.G. Run 90, the north-western boundaries of Sections 2 and 3, Block XII, Moanui Survey District, Sections 4, 1, and 2, Block IX, and Section 2, Block V, Motu Survey District, to Pokaikiri Trig. Station; thence along a right line to Trig. Station 149A; thence to and along the Whakapauakihi Stream, to and down the Motu River to a point in line with Trig. Stations 140 (Pungarehu) and 139A (Tuanui o te Kahakaha); thence along a right line passing through said Station 140 to aforesaid Trig. Station 139A; thence along a right line to Arowhana Trig. Station, and along a right line towards Kapua Trig. Station to the western boundary of Huiarua No. 3 Block; thence along the western and southern boundaries of Huiarua No. 3 Block to the Mata River; thence up the Mata River to the south-eastern boundary of Section 1, Block VI, Tutamoe Survey District; thence along the south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block VI, Section 2, Block V, and Section 1, Block IX, Tutamoe Survey District, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of Waipaoa Nos. 2 and 3b to the Waingaromia River; thence down that river to the south-western boundary of Section 1, Block VII, Waingaromia Survey District: thence along that boundary to the public road intersecting the said Section 1; thence north-easterly generally along that road to the northernmost corner of S.G.R. 42; thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of the said S.G.R. 42, the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Lot 1 of S.G.R. 43A to a public road; thence south-easterly and south-westerly along that road to the northern boundary of S.G.R. 58; thence along that boundary to the south-western boundary of Section 1, Block XVI, Waingaromia Survey District; thence along that boundary and along the southern and eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block XIII, Uawa Survey District, to the Pakarae River; thence down the Pakarae River to the northern boundary of the Pakarae Block; thence along the northern and north-eastern boundaries of that block to the sea; thence southerly generally along the sea-coast to Paritu; thence along a right line to the confluence of the Hangaroa and Ruakituri Rivers; thence up the Hangaroa River to the southern boundary of Tauwharetoa No. 3A Block, along that boundary and the north-eastern boundaries of Tauwharetoi No. 3b 1 and 4b Blocks, the north-western boundary of the last-named block, along the north-eastern and eastern boundaries generally of Sections 4, 3, and 1, Block IX, Hangaroa Survey District, to the Bushy Knoll Road; north-westerly along that road to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana Road, and westerly along that road to Section 1, Block VIII, Tuahu Survey District; thence along the south-eastern and northern boundaries of said Section 1, and along the northern boundary of S.G.R. 84 to the Ruakituri River, up that river to its intersection with a right line between Puketapu and Maungapohatu Trig. Stations; thence north-westerly along that right line to Maungapohatu, the point of commencement.

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:—

Hauomatuku Block 4c 63AB and Mangaoae Block 113 and C 1A and 1D, being the property of William Morris.

Gisborne Borough Council’s Waterworks Reserve.—All that area comprising parts 3, 4, and 6, of Maraetaha No. 2 Nuhaka Survey District, containing 2,561 acres.

As witness my hand this 20th day of March, 1930.

JAS. B. DONALD,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/17/27.)

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Feilding and District Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Philip Aldborough de la Ferrelle, 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, 1930 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Feilding and District Acclimatization District, as described in the Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred to in condition No. 3, for the taking or killing of the following imported game and native game—viz., cock pheasant, Californian quail, Australian quail, grey duck, mallard duck, and black swan, and the period from the 2nd day of February to the 31st day of March, 1931, to be an open season in the said district for the taking and 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 and kill the following native game only—viz., godwits—will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Feilding and District 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 of each kind of such imported game and twenty-five head in all of such native game: Provided that the number of grey and mallard duck which may be taken by any one person in any one day shall not exceed ten.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and native game (including godwits) or native game only (viz., godwits) shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native game (including godwits) or native game only (viz., godwits) on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain.

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 10 lb. in weight.

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

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 any aeroplane, power boat, or launch in connection with the taking or killing of imported or native game.

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

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north by the Kawhatau and Pourangaki Streams from the Rangitikei River to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence towards the east generally by the summit of that range to the Manawatu Gorge, and by the Manawatu River to the Raukawa Road; thence towards the south