New Zealand Gazette – 1932 – No. 16

Page 468

✨ Hunting Regulations



468 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 16

Open Season for Godwits and Knots, License Fee, &c.,
Whangarei Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Adam Hamilton, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd day of January to the 31st day of March, 1933 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Whangarei Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March, 1925, at page 754, 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 the following native game—viz., godwits and knots—will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Whangarei Acclimatization Society or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

  2. Shooting may begin not earlier than one hour before sunrise and must cease not later than one hour after sunset on each and every day during the open season.

  3. 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.

  4. No person shall use or cause to be used any motor-vehicle in connection with the taking or killing of native game: Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of any motor-vehicle for the purpose of travelling either generally or to or from a rendezvous.

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

As witness my hand this 2nd day of March, 1932.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/17/28.)

Price 9d.] By Authority: W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, Wellington.


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🌾 Open Season for Godwits and Knots, Whangarei Acclimatization District

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
2 March 1932
Hunting, Game, Licenses, Whangarei District, Godwits, Knots
  • Adam Hamilton, Minister of Internal Affairs