exceeds 10 lb. in weight, and no cartridge shall be used the
length of which exceeds 2¼ in.

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 or cause to be used any aeroplane
   in connection with the taking or killing of imported game or
   native game:

Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as
to prohibit the use of any aeroplane for the purpose of
travelling either to or from a rendezvous.

8. No person shall use or cause to be used on any lake,
   pond, lagoon, mere, estuary, or other dead water any power-
   boat for the purpose of taking or killing, whether by himself
   or by some other person or persons at his direction, by driving,
   chasing, frightening, or stalking any imported game or native
   game. For the purpose of this condition, power-boat means
   and includes any launch, boat, canoe, or other similar craft
   propelled either wholly or partly by mechanical power :

Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as
to prohibit the use of any power-boat for camping purposes
or for the purpose of travelling either to or from a rendezvous
or generally or to prohibit shooting from a moored power-boat.

9. Any person committing a breach of any of these condi-
   tions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District com-
mencing on the sea-coast at the north-western corner of
Block V, Waipoua Survey District, and bounded by the
southern boundaries of Blocks I, II, III, and IV, Waipoua
Survey District, to a public road ; across that road ; and
by the western, southern, and south-eastern boundaries of
Section 10, Block I, Tutamoe Survey District, to the north-
eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; across a public
road, and by the north - eastern boundaries of Sections 5,
6, and 7, Block V, Tutamoe Survey District, to the south-
western corner of Section 5, Block I, Tutamoe Survey Dis-
trict; thence by the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 5,
4, 3, and 14 of the last-mentioned block, and part of the
southern boundary of Section 5, Block II, Tutamoe Survey
District, to the intersection of a line running between the
north-western corner of Section 3, Block XIII, Punakitere
Survey District, and Tutamoe Trig. Station ; thence by
the last-mentioned line to Tutamoe Trig. Station ; thence
by a right line running in the direction of Trig. Station No.
18 on Tarai-o-Rahiri to the western boundary of Section
No. 26, Block IX, Mangakahia Survey District ; thence
south-easterly along the western boundaries generally of
Sections 26, 23, and 22, Block IX aforesaid, to the road
forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 22 aforesaid ;
across that road and along its eastern side to the southern-
most corner of Section 11 of Block IX aforesaid; thence
north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of said
Section 11 to its easternmost corner; thence south-easterly
along that part of the western boundary of Section 2 and
the western and southern boundaries generally of Sections 8A
and 9 to the westernmost corner of the reserve forming
the northern boundary of Section 2, Block XIII, Mangakahia
Survey District; thence south-easterly along the southern
boundary of the said reserve to a public road, across that
road, and southerly along the eastern side of the aforesaid
road and the south-western boundaries of Sections 11, 10, 9,
and 8, Block XIV, Mangakahia Survey District, to the Wairoa
River; thence down the Wairoa River to its junction with
the Tangihua River; thence up the Tangihua River to
its junction with the Waiotama River; and thence up the
Waiotama River to its intersection by the road forming
the eastern and southern boundaries of Section 1, Block I,
Tangihua Survey District; thence southerly and westerly
along that road to a point in line with the western
boundary of Section 7A, Block I, Tangihua Survey Dis-
trict; thence southerly along the western boundaries of
Sections 7A and 7 to the westernmost corner of the last-
mentioned section; thence southerly along the western
boundaries of Sections 16, 15A, and 14 to Horakaka Trig.
Station ; thence by a right line to the north-eastern corner
of Allotment No. 1A, Walton's Grant; thence down the
stream forming the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 1A
aforesaid to the Tauraroa River; thence down the said
Tauraroa River to its junction with the Mangonui River;
thence up the said Mangonui River to its junction with the
north-western boundary of Section 1, Block II, Matakohe
Survey District; thence north-easterly along the north-
western boundaries of the said Section 1, Block II aforesaid,
the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 44, 51, 63, Block
III, Matakohe Survey District, the south-eastern boundaries

of Sections 59, 61, 65, 66, and part of 67, Block XV, Tangihua
Survey District, the south-eastern boundaries of part of
Section 67 and Sections 68, 159, 157, 156, 155, and 154,
Block XVI, Tangihua Survey District, to the easternmost
corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by the eastern
boundaries of the parishes of Mareretu and Wairau to the
main road to Waipu; thence by the western side of that
road through Maungaturoto to the Great North Road;
along the western side of that road to the Hakaru River;
thence down the middle of that river, the middle of the
Topuni River, the middle of Oruawharo River, and the middle
of the channel of the Kaipara Harbour to its entrance;
thence northerly along the sea-coast to the north-western
corner of Block V, Waipoua Survey District, the point of
commencement.

As witness my hand this 12th day of March, 1931.

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

(I.A. 25/17/9.)

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

I N 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 May to the 31st day of July, 1931 (both days inclusive),
to be an open season in the Lakes 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.,
Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan; and the period
from the 1st day of May to the 7th day of May, 1931 (both
days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district,
except as above, for the taking or killing of the following
native game—viz., paradise duck—subject to the following
conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game 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 will be issued
   to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.)
   each; and the Postmasters at Queenstown, Arrowtown,
   Kingston, and Pembroke are hereby authorized to sign and
   issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such native game that may be taken or
   killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed
   ten head of grey duck and five head of paradise duck, pro-
   vided that the total number of grey duck and paradise duck
   which may be taken or killed 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 (or native game only) 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 acclimatiza-
   tion 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, and no cartridge shall be used the
   length of which exceeds 2¾ in.

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 or cause to be used any aeroplane
   in connection with the taking or killing of imported game or
   native game:

Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as
to prohibit the use of any aeroplane for the purpose of
travelling either to or from a rendezvous.

8. No person shall use or cause to be used on any lake,
   pond, lagoon, mere, estuary, or other dead water any power-
   boat for the purpose of taking or killing, whether by himself
   or by some other person or persons at his direction, by driving,