488

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 Secretary of the Nelson 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 take or kill more than five
   head of black swan, 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.
   (3) All that area in Nelson Land District known as
   Farewell Spit, comprising all the land to the
   eastward of Section 2, Block III, Onetaua Survey
   District, and including also the surrounding tidal
   lands to the low-water mark, but excluding the
   Lighthouse Reserve of 531 acres at the eastern end
   of the Spit.

NORTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 68 of 28th September,
1933, at page 2463.)

1. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck :
   lst May to 30th June, 1936 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for Californian quail : 1st June to 31st July, 1936
   (both days inclusive).
3. Season for Canadian geese in that portion of the district
   lying to the east of the main Christchurch to Dunedin
   Railway Line: lst May to 3lst July, 1936 (both days
   inclusive).
4. Season for pukeko : 2nd May to 8th May, 1936 (both days
   inclusive).
5. Season for paradise duck : lst May to 7th May, 1936
   (both days inclusive).
6. Season for black swan : lst May to 31st July, 1936 (both
   days inclusive).
7. Season for godwit : lst February to 31st March, 1937
   (both days inclusive).
8. 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 payment
   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, pukeko, 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.
9. 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 fifteen head
   in all of grey duck, paradise duck, spoonbill duck, and mallard
   duck, or take or kill more than fifteen head of black swan, or
   take or kill more than five head of pukeko; provided that in
   estimating the total head of game which may be taken or
   killed by any one person on any one day, pukeko shall not be
   taken into consideration, or take or kill more than twenty
   head of godwit.
10. No device or structure other than a hut made of scrub
    or rushes or a mudhole or a mai-mai shall be used from or
    out of which native game may be taken or killed on or near
    Lake Ellesmere.
11. A mudhole shall be constructed solely by means of the
    excavation of the soil, and no timber, metal, or other materials
    shall be used in the construction thereof.
12. 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.
13. Notwithstanding anything contained in conditions 9 to 11
    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.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 22

14. 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) That portion of the Weka Stream and its tributaries
    flowing through or bounding the properties of
    Messrs. F. C. Archer, A. Todd, R. B. Johnson,
    L. W. Ferguson, W. Antill, and A. Craighead, in the
    Waikari Survey District.
    (9) All that area in the Canterbury Land District, being
    Rural Sections 4300, 4357, 4591, 4592, and 5235,
    situated in Block XVI, Waipara Survey District.
    (10) 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 a
    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 31st July,
   1936 (both days inclusive): Provided that these birds may not
   be taken or killed in the Counties of Taieri, Waikouaiti,
   Waihemo, and Clutha.
2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck :
   1st May to 30th June, 1936 (both days inclusive).
3. Season for black swan : 1st May to 30th June, 1936
   (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.