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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.
7. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than-
(a) Twenty head of Californian quail;
(b) Five head of grey duck;
(c) Five head of black swan;
(d) Five head of paradise duck; and
(e) Twenty head of godwit.
8. Excepted areas where 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 cock pheasants : 24th June to 30th June, 1938
   (both days inclusive).
2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck:
   2nd May to 30th June, 1938 (both days inclusive).
3. Season for Californian quail: 2nd May to 30th June, 1938
   (both days inclusive).
4. Season for paradise duck : 2nd May to 8th May, 1938
   (both days inclusive).
5. Season for black swan: 2nd May to 30th June, 1938
   (both days inclusive).
6. Season for godwit: 1st February to 14th February, 1939
   (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 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 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-
   (a) Ten head of Californian quail;
   (b) Five head of paradise duck;
   (c) Fifteen head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, spoonbill
   duck, and mallard duck;
   (d) Fifteen head of black swan;
   (e) Three head of cock pheasants; and
   (f) Twenty head of godwit.
9. No person shall take or kill native or imported game
   during the period 2nd to 8th May, 1938 (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, 1938,
   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 Heywards' 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 stip 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.)
15. Season for Californian quail: 2nd May to 31st July,
    1938 (both days inclusive): Provided that these birds may not
    be taken or killed in the Counties of Taieri, Waikouaiti,
    Waihemo, and Clutha.
16. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck:
    2nd May to 30th June, 1938 (both days inclusive).