Mar. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 429

MARLBOROUGH ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 751.)

1. Season for Californian quail: 6th May to 31st July, 1939 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan: 6th May to 30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).

3. Season for paradise duck: 6th May to 12th May, 1939 (both days inclusive).

4. Season for pukeko: 6th May to 12th May, 1939 (both days inclusive).

5. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Marlborough Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the Marlborough 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-five head of Californian quail;
   (b) Twenty-five head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, and black swan;
   (c) Ten head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, and spoonbill duck;
   (d) Five head of paradise duck;
   (e) Ten head of black swan; and
   (f) Eight head of pukeko.

7. 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 24th 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.

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NELSON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 751.)

1. Season for Californian quail: 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 black swan (only in County of Collingwood): 6th May to 30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).

4. Season for paradise duck (only in those portions of the Counties of Murchison and Inangahua included within the boundaries of the Nelson Acclimatization District): 6th May to 12th May, 1939 (both days inclusive).

5. Season for godwits: 1st February to 14th February, 1940 (both days inclusive).

6. 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.

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 wherein imported game and/or native game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
   (1) Lake Rotoiti.
   (2) The Waima Electric Co’s two dams on the Wairoa River at Brightwater.

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, 1939 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, and spoonbill duck: 6th May to 30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).

3. Season for Californian quail: 1st June, to 30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).

4. Season for paradise duck: 6th May to 12th May, 1939 (both days inclusive).

5. Season for black swan: 6th May to 30th June, 1939 (both days inclusive).

6. Season for godwit: 1st February to 14th February, 1940 (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., 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) Ten 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 6th to 12th May, 1939 (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 6th 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 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.