Mar. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 635

NELSON 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, 1937 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck: 1st May to 30th June, 1937 (both days inclusive).

3. 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 with the exception of the area described in subsection (3) of condition 7 of this notification): 1st June to 30th June, 1937 (both days inclusive).

4. Season for godwits: 1st February to 14th February, 1938 (both days inclusive).

5. 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.

6. 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 grey duck, or take or kill more than five head of black swan, or take or kill more than twenty head of godwits.

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.

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

1. Season for cock pheasants: 24th July to 31st July, 1937 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck: 1st May to 30th June, 1937 (both days inclusive).

3. Season for Californian quail: 1st May to 31st July, 1937 (both days inclusive).

4. Season for paradise duck: 1st May to 7th May, 1937 (both days inclusive).

5. Season for black swan: 1st May to 31st July, 1937 (both days inclusive).

6. Season for godwit: 1st February to 14th February, 1938 (both days inclusive).

7. 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.

8. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than ten 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 three head of cock pheasants, or take or kill more than twenty head of godwit.

9. No person shall take or kill native or imported game during the period 1st to 7th May, 1937 (inclusive), 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 31st day of March, 1937, 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 two hours 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.

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 10 to 12 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.

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;