Game Hunting Regulations




issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings
(10s.) each; and the Postmasters at Maungaturoto, Mau-
ngaturoto Railway, Paparoa, Pahi, Matakohe, Dargaville,
Donnelly's Crossing, Te Kopuru, Aratapu, Tangowahine,
Kaihu, Kirikopuni, Mititai, Raupo, Ruawai, Batley, Ma-
reretu, Naumai, Pukehua, Tutamoe, Whakapirau, Tangaihi,
Tinopai, and Tokatoka are hereby authorized to sign and
issue the said licenses.

  1. No person shall in any one day take or kill imported
    game and native game exceeding in number twenty-five head
    in all of cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, black
    swan, and black teal, or take or kill more than twelve head
    of cock pheasants, or take or kill more than twenty head in
    all of grey duck, black teal, and black swan, or take or kill
    more than twenty head of godwit.

LAKE DISTRICT ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March,
1925, at page 751.)

  1. Season for Californian quail and grey duck: 1st May
    to 31st July, 1933 (both days inclusive).

  2. Season for paradise duck: 1st May to 7th May, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  3. Season for black swan: 1st May to 31st July, 1933,
    both days inclusive: Provided that these birds may not be
    taken or killed on that portion of Lake Wanaka which is
    within the district or on any land within 5 chains of the
    shore of such portion.

  4. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game within the Lakes District Acclimatization 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.

  5. No person shall in any one day take or kill native game
    exceeding in number twenty-five head in all of grey duck,
    black swan, and paradise duck, or take or kill more than
    ten head of grey duck, or take or kill more than five head
    of paradise duck.

  6. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by
    admeasurement 230 acres, more or less, being part of
    the Town of Kinloch, and bounded as follows: Towards
    the north by the northern side of Loch Carron Street;
    towards the east by the eastern side of Nevis Street;
    towards the south by the southern side of Skye Street;
    towards the east generally by the eastern side of Armadale
    Street; towards the south by the southern side of Barra
    Street; towards the west by the western side of Islay
    Street: and excepting from the said parcel of land
    Sections 1 to 5, Block I, Sections 3, 4, and 27, Block XVII,
    Section 6, Block XVIII, Sections 3 to 7, 10 to 13, Block
    XX, Sections 8 to 15, Block XXI, Town of Kinloch.
    As the same is more particularly shown on plan marked
    L. and S. 23/807, and deposited in the Head Office of
    the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and
    thereon edged red.

MANGONUI - WHANGAROA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March,
1925, at page 751.)

  1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, Australian
    quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck (shoveller), and black swan:
    1st May to 30th June, 1933 (both days inclusive).

  2. Season for black teal: 1st May to 31st May, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  3. Season for godwits: 1st February to 31st March, 1934
    (both days inclusive).

  4. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and
    native game, including godwits, within the Mangonui-
    Whangaroa Acclimatization 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—will be issued to any person on
    payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each, and the
    Secretary of the Mangonui-Whangaroa Acclimatization Society,
    or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is
    hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

  5. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than
    twelve head of cock pheasants or take or kill native game
    exceeding in number twenty-five head in all of grey duck,
    spoonbill duck (shoveller), black swan, and black teal, or
    take or kill more than twenty head of godwit.

  6. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    The Council's reserve at Lake Ngatau.

MARLBOROUGH ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March,
1925, at page 751.)

  1. Season for Californian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck,
    and black swan: 1st May to 31st July, 1933 (both days
    inclusive).

  2. Season for paradise duck: 1st May to 7th May, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  3. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game within the Marlborough Acclimatization District will
    be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty
    shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the Marlborough
    Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such
    Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and
    issue the said licenses.

  4. No person shall in any one day take or kill imported
    game and/or native game exceeding in number twenty-five
    head in all of Californian quail, grey duck, spoonbill duck,
    black swan, and paradise duck, or take or kill more than
    fifteen head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, and spoonbill
    duck, or take or kill more than five head of paradise duck.

  5. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    Marlborough Electric-power Board's dam at Waihopai.

NELSON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March,
1925, at page 751.)

  1. Season for Californian quail and grey duck: 1st May
    to 31st July, 1933 (both days inclusive).

  2. Season for black swan (only in area included in County
    of Collingwood, comprising the tidal flats extending from the
    lighthouse at Cape Farewell along the northern shores of
    Golden Bay to Puponga): 1st May to 31st July, 1933 (both
    days inclusive).

  3. Season for godwits: 1st February to 31st March, 1934
    (both days inclusive).

  4. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game (including godwits) within the Nelson Acclimatization
    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 (viz., godwits) will be issued to any
    person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each;
    and the Chief Postmaster at Nelson, and the Postmasters at
    Motueka, Motupiko, Wakefield, Murchison, and Reefton, are
    hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

  5. No person shall in any one day take or kill imported
    game and/or native game exceeding in number twenty-five
    head in all of Californian quail, grey duck, and black swan,
    or take or kill more than twenty head of Californian quail,
    or take or kill more than five head of black swan, or take or
    kill more than ten head of grey duck, or take or kill more
    than twenty head of godwits.

  6. Nothing herein shall apply to Californian quail in the
    County of Murchison, in which county protection has been
    removed from Californian quail.

  7. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    (1) Lake Rotoiti.

(2) The Waimea Electric Co.'s two dams on the Wairoa
River at Brightwater.

NORTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of 12th March,
1925, at page 751.)

  1. Season for cock pheasants: 1st May to 31st May, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  2. Season for Californian quail, mallard duck, grey duck,
    spoonbill duck, and black swan: 1st May to 31st July, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  3. Season for paradise duck: 1st May to 7th May, 1933
    (both days inclusive).

  4. Season for godwit: 1st February to 31st March, 1934
    (both days inclusive).

  5. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game, including godwits, within the North Canterbury
    Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on pay-
    ment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and licenses
    to take or kill the following native game—viz., grey duck,
    spoonbill duck (or shoveller), and black swan—will be issued
    to any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.) each; and
    licenses to take or kill the following native game—viz., godwits
    —will be issued to any person on payment of ten shillings
    (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the North Canterbury
    Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such
    Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue
    the said licenses.



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17 March 1933
Game hunting, Regulations, Acclimatization districts, Licenses, Seasons