Open Seasons for Imported Game and/or Native Game in certain Acclimatization Districts.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare open seasons for imported game and/or native game, of the kinds hereinafter specified, in the acclimatization districts specified hereunder, except in the areas shown under the heading “Excepted Areas,” during the periods set forth in connection with each district, subject in all cases to the following general conditions and subject to the special conditions specified in connection with each district. Any person taking or killing any imported game or native game otherwise than in terms of this notification (including the general conditions hereinafter set out and the special conditions specified in connection with any acclimatization district), is liable on conviction to a fine of £20.

GENERAL CONDITIONS.

1. No person shall commence shooting earlier than one hour before sunrise or continue shooting later than one hour after sunset on any day during the open season concerned.

2. No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys nor use artificial decoys so that more than fifteen artificial decoys are used at any one time (whether by one or several persons) on any particular water within an area of less than 100 yards square (except in the Auckland Acclimatization District, where the number of artificial decoys for such area shall not be more than ten).

3. No person shall use or cause to be used any motor-vehicle in connection with the taking or killing of imported game and/or 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.

4. No person shall use or cause to be used for the purpose of taking or killing any imported or native game any un-moored floating stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo, or any boat artificially dressed or covered in any way.

5. No person engaged in shooting from any shelter, mai-mai, mud-hole, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall have or use more than one gun.

ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICTS.

ASHBURTON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 68, of 28th September, 1933, at page 2463.

1. Season for Californian quail, grey duck, mallard duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan: Ist May to 30th June, 1934 (inclusive).

2. Season for chukor: Ist May to 31st May, 1934. (both days inclusive).

3. Season for paradise duck: Ist May to 7th May, 1934 (inclusive).

4. Licenses to take or kill the above imported game and native game within the Ashburton 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 above native game only within the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Ashburton 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 twenty head of Californian quail or more than five head of chukor (provided that not more than twenty-five head of chukor may be taken or killed by any one person during the open season above provided for), nor take or kill more than twenty-five head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan, nor more than fifteen head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, and spoonbill duck (provided that this number shall be reduced by the number of mallard duck shot), nor take or kill more than ten head in all of grey duck and spoonbill duck nor more than five head of paradise duck.

6. Excepted area wherein native game only shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—

All that area of land contained within the boundaries of the Tripp Survey District.

7. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—

All that area of land in the Canterbury Land District, intersected by the Wakanui Creek, being Rural Sections 15104, 15510, 17411, and 16673, the property of Mr. G. W. Leadley.

AUCKLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 4, of 23rd January, 1930, at page 159.)

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, Australian quail, grey duck, mallard duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan: 1st May to 30th June, 1934 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for godwits: 1st February to 31st March, 1935 (both days inclusive).

3. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game, including godwits, within the Auckland 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 ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Auckland 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 more than nine head of cock pheasants, or take or kill more than fifteen head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan (provided that the number of grey duck and spoonbill duck shall be reduced by the number of mallard duck shot), or take or kill more than twenty head of godwit.

5. No person shall take or kill native or imported game on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd days of May, 1934, while occupying any stand, hide, loo, or position, as commonly used by duck-shooters (hereinafter referred to as “a stand”) which has been duly claimed by any other license-holder in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) A stand may be claimed by the planting thereon at any time after noon on the 7th day of April, 1934, of a stake with a board attached having plainly marked thereon the name and address of the claimant and the number of his license.

(b) No person shall claim more than one stand.

(c) No stand shall be claimed on or within one hundred yards of a stand which has already been duly claimed by any other person, except with the consent of such last-mentioned person:

Provided, however, that any stand which is not occupied by the claimant within half an hour after sunrise on any of the aforesaid days may be occupied on that day by any other license-holder:

Provided further that nothing in this clause contained shall be deemed to affect in any way whatsoever the rights of owners or occupiers of any lands in respect of shooting on such lands.

6. No person shall use or cause to be used for the taking or killing of imported game and native game on Lakes Waikare and Whangape, any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo except within 200 yd. of the water’s edge of the said lakes.

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

(1) Little Rotongaro Lake, near Huntly.

(2) Section 36, Selwyn Settlement, containing 3,400 acres, known as Afforestation Ltd., the property of New Zealand Perpetual Forests, Ltd.

(3) Sections 51 and 51A, Parish of Manurewa, being R. J. Self’s Beachlea Downs property.

(4) Rangitoto-Tuhua 52E, containing 1,300 acres, the property of W. E. L. Napier.

(5) Part Section 16, Block X, Wharekawa Survey District, D.P. 21593, containing 89 acres, the property of A. E. Jones, Wharepoa, Thames Valley.

(6) Section 5, Block I, Waihou Survey District, containing 310 acres, the property of W. F. Jones, Ngatea.

(7) Part Section 3, Block I, Waihou Survey District, containing 72 acres, the property of R. Nixon, Ngatea.

(8) Section 11, Block I, Waihou Survey District, containing 700 acres, the property of Motion Bros., Ngatea.

(9) Lot 2, Section 3, Block I, Waihou Survey District, containing 125 acres, the property of J. W. Neate, Hopai West Road, Ngatea.

(10) Lot 1 of part 1 of 3, Block I, Waihou Survey District, containing 52 acres, the property of S. Birkenhead, Hopai, Ngatea.

(11) Part 35 of II, Whangape Riding, containing 84 acres, the property of V. Nielson, Rangiriri.

(12) Section 5A, Block VIII, Kawhia South Survey District, containing 991 acres, the property of H. Brandon.

(13) Lot 2, Sections 17, 159, parts 189 and 382, Waipipi Parish, containing 700 acres, the property of W. Rutherford.

(14) Section 189, Waipipi Parish, containing 118 acres, the property of W. G. Hamilton.

(15) Sections 160, 186/7, and part 334, Waipipi Parish, containing 328 acres, the property of W. H. Kelland.

(16) Sections 14/8, S.W. 19, 20/22, 90, 180, Waiuku West, containing 701 acres, the property of John Muir.