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4. 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), paradise duck, and black swan—
   will be issued to any person on payment of ten shillings (10s.)
   each; and licenses to take to 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 Canter-
   bury 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
   fifteen head of Californian quail, or take or kill more than five
   head of paradise duck, or take or kill more than ten head of
   grey duck or more than ten head of spoonbill duck : Provided
   that not more than fifteen head in all of grey duck, paradise
   duck, and spoonbill duck may be taken or killed by any one
   person in any one day, and, provided further, that this number
   shall be reduced by the number of mallard duck shot, or take
   or kill more than fifteen head of black swan or take or kill more
   than twenty head of godwit.
6. No device or structure other than a hut made of scrub
   or rushes or a mud-hole or a mai-mai shall be used from or
   out of which native game may be taken or killed on or near
   Lake Ellesmere.
7. A mud-hole shall be constructed solely by means of the
   excavation of the soil and no timber, metal, or other material
   shall be used in the construction thereof.
8. No hut, mudhole, or mai-mai shall be used in any part
   of Lake Ellesmere in which the water is of a greater depth
   than twenty-four inches.
9. Notwithstanding anything contained in conditions 6 to 8
   hereof, a boat concealed among the vegetation growing along
   or near the margin of Lake Ellesmere may be used for the
   purpose of taking or killing native game on or near such
   lake, or such boat may be used for the purpose of recovering
   native game which has been shot : provided that no boat so
   used shall be artificially dressed or covered in any way.
10. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season :—
    (1) All that area in the County of Akaroa, situated in the
    Akaroa and Ellesmere Survey Districts, Canterbury
    Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,540
    acres, more or less, being the lake known as Lake
    Forsyth, including all roads fronting on the shores
    of the said lake ; and all those reserves in the said
    county and survey districts numbered 3186, 3187,
    3185, 2903, 890, and 157, excluding therefrom
    Native Reserve 385 adjoining Lake Forsyth, and
    those portions of R.S. 2474, 4804, and 6012, being
    the flat land adjoining Okute and Little River
    Streams and Lake Forsyth.
    (2) Ahuriri Lagoon.
    (3) Horse-shoe Lake.
    (4) Glenmark Lagoon.
    (5) Cheviot Lagoon.
    (6) R.S. 1352, 1269, part 1439, Block X, Rangiora Survey
    District, comprising 71 acres and part R.S. 1462,
    Block X, Rangiora Survey District, comprising
    77 acres 1 rood 17 perches, the property of the
    Andrews Twine Company.
    (7) All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded
    by a line commencing at the south-western corner of
    Rural Section 17571 ; thence north-easterly generally
    along Fairweather Road, Harper’s Road, and Dixon's
    Road to the northern boundary of Reserve 3415;
    thence along that boundary to a point due west of
    the easternmost corner of Rural Section 14341 ;
    thence along a right line to that point; thence
    westerly generally along the road forming the
    southern boundary of that section and of Rural
    Section 5785 to Heyward's Road ; thence north-
    westerly along Heyward's Road to its intersection
    with the south-eastern boundary of Reserve 3415 ;
    thence south-westerly generally along that boundary
    to a point in line with the southern boundary of
    Rural Section 17571; thence to and along that
    boundary to the south-western corner of the said
    Section 17571, the point of commencement.
    (8) All that area in the Canterbury Land District situated
    in Mytholm, Lake Sumner, Marion, Saddle, Minchin,
    Katrine, and Noble Survey Districts, and bounded
    as follows: Commencing at the junction of the
    north branch of the Hurunui River and the Sisters
    Stream; thence by the left bank of the aforesaid
    north branch of the Hurunui River in a north-
    westerly direction to Lake Sumner; thence by a
    right line in a northerly direction to the summit of
    Mount Longfellow; thence by a right line in the

north-westerly direction to the most northern point
of Lake Marion; thence by a line parallel to and one
mile on the north side of Lake Sumner and the
Hurunui River to the summit of the Southern Alps;
thence south along the aforesaid Southern Alps to a
point one mile on the south side of Harper Pass;
thence by a line parallel to and one mile south of the
Hurunui River, Lake Sumner, the Canal, Loch
Katrine, the Dray Road, Lake Taylor, to a point one
mile due south of Trig. Station T in Noble Survey
District; thence from the last-named point in an
easterly direction to Dog Hill; thence by a right line
to the point of commencement: save and excepting
from the above-described area Rural Section 33978,
Lake Sheppard, and a strip of land eleven chains wide
surrounding the said Lake Sheppard.

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

1. Season for Californian quail: 1st May to 30th June,
   1934 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill
   duck: 1st May to 31st May, 1934 (both days inclusive).
3. Season for black swan: 1st May to 31st May, 1934
   (both days inclusive). Provided that these birds may not be
   shot on Lake Hawea, or on that portion of Lake Wanaka
   which is within the district, or on any area within 5 chains
   of such lake and portion of a lake.
4. Season for godwits: 1st February to 31st March, 1935
   (both days inclusive).
5. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
   game, including godwits, within the Otago 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, including godwits, will be issued to any
   person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and
   the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society, or any
   person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby
   authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.
6. No person shall in any one day take or kill imported
   game and/or native game exceeding in number twenty head
   in all of Californian quail, grey duck, and spoonbill duck,
   or take or kill more than twenty head of Californian quail,
   or take or kill more than fifteen head of grey duck and/or
   spoonbill duck; provided that this number shall be reduced
   by the number of mallard duck shot, or take or kill more
   than ten head of black swan (provided that in estimating
   the total head of game allowed to be taken or killed by any
   one person in any one day black swan shall not be taken
   into consideration) or take or kill more than twenty head of
   godwits.
7. A license issued pursuant to this notification to take or
   kill imported and native game or native game only shall
   entitle the holder thereof to take or kill native game in the
   Southland Acclimatization District, during the period and
   subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in the
   notification fixing an open season for native game in that
   district.
8. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
   game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
   The Lagoon known as Tomahawk Lagoon (Otago Penin-
   sula).
   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
   Survey 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).

ROTORUA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of 20th June,
1929, at page 1721.)

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, Australian
   quail, mallard duck, grey 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 Rotorua 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