Game Hunting Regulations




MAR. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 427

  1. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game within the East Coast Acclimatization District will be
    issued to any person on payment of the sum of thirty shillings
    (30s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill imported
    game and native game within the said district will be issued
    to persons receiving an age benefit or a Miner's benefit under
    the Social Security Act, 1938, on payment of the sum of
    twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the East
    Coast Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by
    such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign
    and issue the said licenses.
  2. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
    (a) Twenty-five head in all of cock pheasants, Californian,
    Australian, and Virginian quail, grey duck, shoveller
    duck, and black swan;
    (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck and shoveller duck;
    (c) Nine head of cock pheasants; and
    (d) Eight head of pukeko.
  3. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    (1) Hauomatuku Block 4c 63AB and Mangaone Block 113
    and C 1A and 1D, being the property of William
    Morris.
    (2) Gisborne Borough Council's Waterworks Reserve: All
    that area comprising parts 3, 4, and 6 of Maraetaha
    No. 2, Nuhaka Survey District, containing 2,561
    acres.
    (3) The property of the J. T. A. Orr estate as under:—
    (a) Hauomatuku No. 7 Block, eontaining 506 acres
    3 roods 23·9 perches, being the whole of the land
    comprised in certificate of title, Volume 82, folio
    153, Gisborne Registry.
    (b) The Mangaoae No. 2D 3 Block, situated in the County
    of Waikohu, containing 463 acres, more or less,
    and being the land comprised and described in
    certificate of title, Volume 45, folio 200, Gisborne
    Registry.
    (c) The Mangaoae 2B Block, delineated on the public map
    of Block XIV, Waingaromia Survey District, con-
    taining 129 acres 1 rood, and being the land comprised
    in certificate of title, Volume 43, folio 99, Gisborne
    Registry.
    (d) The Mangaoae 2c Block, delineated on the public
    map of Waingaromia Survey District, containing
    144 acres 3 roods ll perches, and being the land
    comprised in certificate of title, Volume 45,
    folio 176, Gisborne Registry.
    (e) The Papakorokoro No. 10 Block, delineated on the
    public map of Block XIV, Waingaromia Survey
    District, containing 256 acres, more or less, and
    being the land in certificate of title, Volume 39,
    folio 189, Gisborne Registry.
    (f) The Papakorokoro 9A Block, delineated on the public
    map of Block XIV, Waingaromia Survey District,
    containing 18 acres 3 roods 9 perches, and being
    the land in certificate of title, Volume 45, folio 180,
    Gisborne Registry.

GREY DISTRICT ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March,
1925, at page 750.)

  1. Season for black swan: 6th May to 3lst July, 1939
    (both days inclusive).
  2. Season for grey duck and shoveller duck: 6th May to
    30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).
  3. Season for pukeko: 6th May to 12th May, 1939 (both
    days inclusive).
  4. Season for paradise duck: 6th May to 12th May, 1939
    (both days inclusive): Provided that these birds may not
    be taken or killed in the area bounded as follows: Com-
    mencing at a point at the junction of Coal Creek with the
    Grey River; thence in an easterly direction for approximately
    two miles to Gentle Annie Bluff; thence in a northerly
    direction in a straight line for a distance of approximately
    two miles to Camp Railway Crossing; thence in a westerly
    direction along the foot of the Rapahoe Range to the junction
    of Coal Creek and the Grey River the point of commencement.
  5. Licenses to take or kill such native game within the
    Grey District Acclimatization District will be issued to any
    person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each;
    and the Secretary of the Grey District 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—
    (a) Twenty head in all of grey duck, shoveller duck,
    paradise duck, and black swan;
    (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck, shoveller duck, and
    paradise duck;
    (c) Fifteen head of black swan;
    (d) Five head of paradise duck; and
    (e) Eight head of pukeko.

HAWERA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March,
1925, at page 750.)

  1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, and black
    swan: 6th May to 31st July, 1939 (both days inclusive).
  2. Season for grey duck: 6th May to 30th June, 1939
    (both days inclusive).
  3. Season for pukeko: 6th May to 19th May, 1939 (both
    days inclusive).
  4. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game within the Hawera Acclimatization District will be
    issued to any person on payment of the sum of thirty
    shillings (30s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill
    imported game and native game within the said district will
    be issued to persons receiving an age benefit, or a miner’s
    benefit under the Social Security Act, 1938, on payment of
    the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of
    the Hawera 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—
    (a) Ten head of cock pheasants;
    (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck and black swan;
    (c) Ten head of grey duck; and
    (d) Eight head of pukeko.

HAWKE’S BAY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March,
1925, at page 750.)

  1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, Australian
    quail: 6th May to 31st July, 1939 (both days inclusive).
  2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill or shoveller
    duck, and black swan: 6th May to 30th June, 1939 (both
    days inclusive).
  3. Season for pukeko: 6th May to 19th May, 1939 (both
    days inclusive).
  4. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
    game within the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District will
    be issued to any person on payment of the sum of thirty
    shillings (30s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill
    imported game and native game within the said district will
    be issued to persons receiving an age benefit or a miner’s
    benefit under the Social Security Act, 1938, on payment of
    the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary
    of the Hawke’s Bay 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—
    (a) Twenty-five head in all of cock pheasants, grey duck,
    shoveller duck, mallard duck, black swan, and
    pukeko;
    (b) Five head of cock pheasants;
    (c) Fifteen head in all of mallard duck, grey duck, shoveller
    duck and pukeko;
    (d) Two head of pukeko; and
    (e) Five head of black swan.
  6. No person shall take or kill imported or native game on
    the 6th, 7th, or 8th days of May, 1939, 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 22nd day of April, 1939,
    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 100 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 half an hour 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.
  7. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native
    game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
    All that parcel of land containing by admeasurement
    2,428 acres 3 roods 29 perches, being Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4,
    Puketitiri Bush, and Sections 5, 7, 10/25, 33, 34, 35, 40/46,
    49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, part 60, and that part of Section 9A,
    marked as Lot 1, D.P. 2217, all in Block XIV, Pohui Survey
    District, and parts Sections 6 and 7 of Puketitiri Reserve,
    being parts of Blocks 96 and 115, Patoka Crown Grant


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