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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Ending of Period of Summer Time.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1937.

IT is hereby notified for general information that under the Summer Time Act, 1929, and Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, summer time which commenced at 2 o’clock in the morning of Sunday, the 27th September, 1936, ends at 2 o’clock New Zealand standard time in the morning of Sunday, the 25th April, 1937.

The time will therefore be put back 30 minutes as from 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on Sunday, the 25th April, 1937.

W. E. PARRY,
For Prime Minister.

(I.A. 1933/196/4.)

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game in Otago Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Edward Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend the Warrant dated 16th March, 1937, made under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of the 23rd idem, at page 630, by deleting all that portion of such Warrant included under the heading “Otago Acclimatization District,” and do hereby declare open seasons for the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game of the kinds hereinafter specified in the Otago Acclimatization District as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 751, except in the areas described in Condition No. 10 hereof during the periods set forth in each case and subject in all cases to the conditions set out hereunder :—

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

2. Season for Californian quail: 1st May to 31st July, 1937 (both days inclusive): Provided that these birds may not be taken or killed in the Counties of Taieri, Waikouaiti, Waihemo, and Clutha.

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

4. Season for black swan: 1st May to 30th June, 1937 (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.

5. Season for chukor: 1st May to 30th June, 1937 (both days inclusive).

6. Season for pukeko: 1st May to 14th May, 1937 (both days inclusive).

7. Season for paradise duck (in Counties of Maniototo and Vincent only): 1st May to 7th May, 1937 (both days inclusive).

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

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. (a) No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys nor shall use more than fifteen artificial decoys at any one time, and no such artificial decoys shall be spread over a greater area than thirty yards square.

(b) No person shall place any artificial decoys within 100 yards of the nearest of any other artificial decoys set out by any other person.

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 unmoored 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, mudhole, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall use more than one gun: Provided that a person so engaged may have a second gun in a condition not immediately suitable for use, and held for use only in the event of the first gun becoming damaged or otherwise unfit for use.

6. 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—viz., 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.

7. No person shall in any one day take or kill imported game and/or native game exceeding in number twenty head in all of mallard duck, chukor, cock pheasants, grey duck, spoonbill duck, and paradise duck, or take or kill more than thirty head of Californian quail, or take or kill more than twelve head of mallard duck, or take or kill more than five head of paradise duck; provided that the total head of paradise duck which may be taken or killed by any one person during the open season shall not exceed twenty-five head in all, or take or kill more than fifteen head in all of mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, and paradise duck, or take or kill more than eight head of pukeko, or take or kill more than ten head of black swan (provided that in estimating the total head of game which may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day pukeko and black swan shall not be taken into consideration), or take or kill more than five head of chukor, or take or kill more than two head of cock pheasant, or take or kill more than twenty head of godwits.

8. No person shall use or cause to be used on any water within the district for the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo except within a distance of half a chain from the edge of such water in non-tidal waters, or half a chain from low-water mark in tidal waters, or, where raupo abounds, half a chain from the outside edge of such raupo.

9. 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.

10. 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 Peninsula).
    Section 22, Block IV, Sutton District, being the property of Mr. E. J. Docherty.
    Section 121c, Block IX, Dunback and Hummockside Districts, the property of Mr. John Philip, Palmerston.
    Run 238E, Wakefield Survey District, known as Northburn 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).
    Finegand Lagoon, on the property of Mr. M. McAllister, of Balclutha, being Section part 11, Block XVII, and Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, Block XXII, Clutha Survey District.

11. Any person taking or killing any imported game or native game otherwise than in terms of this notification is liable on conviction to a fine of £20.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1937.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/39/13.)

Special Order made by the Ngaroto Drainage Board altering the Boundaries of the Subdivisions of the Ngaroto Drainage District and fixing Representation therefor.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th April, 1937.

THE following special order made by the Ngaroto Drainage Board is published in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1920.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1937/135/1.)

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by section 16 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and section 2 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1920, and of each and every other power it thereto enabling, the Ngaroto Drainage Board hereby resolves by way of special order as follows:—

1. On and after the 1st day of April, 1937, the boundaries of the Paterangi Subdivision of the Ngaroto Drainage District