Result of Election of a Member of the New Plymouth Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1940.
THE following result of the election of a member of the
New Plymouth Fire Board has been reported to the
Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance
with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926:-
New Plymouth Fire Board . . . . . . A. G. Ross.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 76/4/26.)
Results of Elections of Members of the Ohakune and Taihape Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1940.
THE following results of the elections of members of the
Ohakune and Taihape Fire Boards have been reported
to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and are notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926 :-
Ohakune Fire Board . . . H. S. Bowden.
Taihape Fire Board . . . H. S. Bowden.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 76/4/28-55.)
Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game in Hawke's Bay Acclimatization District.
IN exercise of the powers vested in him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby declare open seasons for the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game of the kinds hereinafter specified in the Hawke's Bay Acclimatization District as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 750, except in the areas described in Condition No. 9 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, Californian and Australian quail : 4th May to 31st July, 1940 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, black swan, and pukeko : 4th May to 18th May, 1940 (both days inclusive).
   CONDITIONS.
3. 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.
4. (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.
   (c) No person shall in any place, during the period in that place of the open season hereby declared use in connection with the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game any form of decoying game by the aid of corn, wheat, oats, barley, maize, or any other grain or any products of grain, or any other food placed by any person in or near the margin of any river, stream, lagoon, pond, swamp, estuary, or other water.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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, paradise duck, and black swan;
   (b) Five head of cock pheasants;
   (c) Fifteen head in all of mallard duck, grey duck, shoveller duck, and paradise duck;
   (d) Five head of pukeko;
   (e) Two head of paradise duck; and
   (f) Five head of black swan.
10. No person shall take or kill imported or native game on the 4th, 5th, or 6th days of May, 1940, 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 20th day of April, 1940, 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.
11. Excepted area 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 District, situated in Blocks XIV and XV, Pohui Survey District, and Blocks II and III, Patoka Crown Grant District, being the property of John Holt, Ltd.
    Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of April, 1940.
    W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
    (I.A. 46/16/6.)
    The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.- Notice of Cancellation of Registration.
    Department of Labour,
    Wellington, 8th April, 1940.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Southland Oyster Trade Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1474, situated at Bluff, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.
    G. M. F. JACKSON,
    Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions.
    The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.- Notice of Cancellation of Registration.
    Department of Labour,
    Wellington, 2nd April, 1940.
    NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Dairy Products Limited (Southland) Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1516, situated at Invercargill, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.
    G. M. F. JACKSON,
    Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions.