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Section 22, Block IV, Sutton District, being the property
of Mr. E.J. Docherty.

Section 121c, Block 9, Dunback and Hummockside Dis-
tricts, the property of Mr. John Philip, Palmerston.

Run 238E, Wakefield Survey District, known as Worthburn
Station, being the property of Mr. D.S. Middleton.

The Brighton River (known as Boat Harbour Creek) from
Duff's Bridge on the top of Lobb's boundary to the sea.

The lake on Section 1, Wilden Settlement, Wart Hill Sur-
vey District, and all the land included in an area of three-
quarters of a mile surrounding the said lake (the property
of Mr. Geo. R. Young).

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

P.A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 25/17/14.)

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fees, &c., Rotorua 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 1st day
of May to the 30th day of June, 1931 (both days inclusive),
to be an open season in the Rotorua Acclimatization District,
as described in the First Schedule hereto, except in the areas
referred to in Condition No. 3 and in the Second Schedule
hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported
game and native game-viz., cock pheasants, Californian
quail, Australian quail, Virginian quail, grey duck, spoonbill
duck, and black swan; and the period from the 2nd day of
February to the 30th day of April, 1932 (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., godwits and knots--subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native
   game, including godwits and knots, 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 the following
   native game only--viz., godwits and knots--will be issued to
   any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the
   Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs,
   Wellington, or any person authorized by the said Under-
   Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and
   issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such imported and native game that
   may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day
   shall not exceed six cock pheasants, fifteen grey duck, and
   twenty head in all of spoonbill duck, and black swan.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
   and native game, including godwits and knots, or the following
   native game only--viz., godwits and knots--shall authorize
   the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native
   game, including godwits and knots, or godwits and knots
   only, on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered
   acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on
   any sanctuary or public domain, or any land mentioned in
   the Second Schedule hereto.

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: Provided that no person
   engaged in shooting from any shelter, mai-mai, mud-hole,
   boat, louver, or other contrivance shall have or use more
   than one gun as above described, and no cartridge shall be
   used the length of which exceeds 2½ 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 con-
   ditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, and
Wellington Land Districts, bounded by a line commencing
at a point on the sea-coast in the Bay of Plenty in line with
the south-western boundary of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block;
thence to and along that boundary, the western boundary of
Whangaparaoa No. 3A Block, and the western and south-
western boundaries of Waikura No. 2 Block to Pakira Trig.
Station; thence along right lines to Whanakaoa Trig. Station
to Kapua Trig. Station, to Arowhana Trig. Station, to Tuanui-
o-te-Kahakaha Trig. Station; thence along a right line
passing through Trig. Station 140 to the Motu River; thence
up the Motu River and the Whakapaupakihi Stream to its
source; thence along a right line to Trig. Station 149A; thence
along a right line to Trig. Station Pokaikiri; thence along
the north-western boundaries of Section 2, Block V, Motu
Survey District, Sections 2, 1, and 4, Block IX, Motu Survey
District, and Sections 3 and 2, Block XII, Moanui Survey
District, S.G.R's 90 and 89, and that boundary produced to
a point in line with the western boundary of Tahora 2c 3,
Section 2 Block; thence to and along that boundary to its
intersection by a line running from Mangatapere Trig. Station
to Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence along a right line
running between Maungapohatu and Puketapu Trig. Stations
to its intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII,
Tuahu Survey District; thence down the Ruakituri River
to the northern boundary-line of S.G.R. No. 84; thence
along the northern boundaries of S.G.R. No. 84 and the
northern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block
VIII, Tuahu Survey District, to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana
Road; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to
Bushy Knoll Road; thence along the middle of Bushy Knoll
Road to the western boundary of Section 2, Block IX, Hanga-
roa Survey District; thence along the western boundaries of
Sections 2 and 5, Block IX aforesaid, to the north-western
boundary of Tauwharetoi 4B Block; thence along the north-
western and north-eastern boundaries of that block, and the
south-western and south-eastern boundaries of Tauwharetoi
No. 3A Block to the Hangaroa River; thence down the
middle of the Hangaroa River to its confluence with the
Ruakituri River; thence along a right line to the sea-coast
at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu Survey District); thence
southerly along high-water mark of the sea to the southernmost
point of the Mahia Peninsula; thence along high-water mark
Hawke Bay, to the mouth of the Mohaka River; thence to
and up the middle of the Mohaka River to a point in line with
Trig. Stations 68A and 65A; thence along that line to said
Trig. Station 65A; thence westerly along a right line to Trig.
Station 26, Tawaki Tohunga, in Block XII, Mangamaire
Survey District; thence south-westerly along a right line to
Trig. Station 27; thence westerly along a right line to Trig.
Station 28, Manukaiapu; thence north-easterly along a right
line to Ruapehu Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along
a right line to Paretetaitonga Trig. Station; thence towards
the north-east along a right line to Ngaruhoe Trig. Station;
thence northerly along a right line to Tongariro Trig. Station;
thence north-easterly along a right line in the direction of
the mouth of the Waihi Stream, Lake Taupo, to the Wanganui
River; thence down the middle of that river to the western
boundary of the Waione Block, and northerly along that
boundary to Maungaku Trig. Station; thence northerly
along a mountain range passing through Haukungaroa,
Motere, Tuhingamata, and Weraroa Trig. Stations to Pureora
Trig. Station, and thence north-easterly along a right line to
Puwhenua Trig. Station; thence north-westerly along a
right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station to a point
due west from Otanewainuku Trig. Station in Block XVI,
Otanewainuku Survey District; thence due east along a
right line to that trig. station, and again due east along that
line produced to a point due south of Trig. Station JI in
Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a
right line running due north through Trig. JI aforesaid to
high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty; thence south-easterly
and north-easterly along the aforesaid high-water mark to a
point in line with the south-western boundary of Whanga-