972

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, Licenses, Fees, &c., Rotorua 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 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, and twenty head in all of grey duck, 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 conditions 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, Hangaroa 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 J1 in Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a right line running due north through Trig. J1 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 Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block, the point of commencement; and including White and Whale Islands and the Ru Rima Rocks.

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:—

1. Lakes Okataina, Rotokaua or Bitter Lake near Taupo, and Rotoaira, and the land within one mile of the shores of these lakes.

2. All land and water within half a mile of the Okere Power-station.

3. All that area of land and water in the Auckland Land District comprised in the properties of Messrs. Gee and Sons and G. W. Vaughan, Esq., on the Rotorua-Maketu Road, including Lake Rotokawa and adjacent lands. (Note: The plan of this area has been supplied to the Department of Internal Affairs.)

4. The property of Alexander McLean, Esq., of Awakeri.

5. The property of John B. Lawrie, Esq., comprising 100 acres on the Taupo and Atiamuri Roads, near Rotorua.

6. Section 2, Block III, and Sections 10 and 11, Block VII, all of Tarawera Survey District.

7. All that area between Lakes Rotoehu and Rotoma, being part of Block X, Rotoma Survey District, containing approximately 40 acres, as shown on plan No. 13034, in the Native Land Court, being the property of Samuel Emery, of Rotoiti.

8. That portion of Opoho Block, Wairoa, Block V, Nuhaka Survey District, lying between the Wairoa-Gisborne Road and the sea, being an area of approximately 350 acres, the property of T. W. G. Tombleson, Esq.

As witness my hand this 7th day of April, 1931.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/17/15.)

[Issued in substitution for Warrant dated 12th March, 1931, and gazetted on the 13th idem at page 610, declaring an open season for imported game and native game in the Rotorua Acclimatization District.]