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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

Tern—
Black-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna albistriata).
Caspian tern (tara nui) (Hydroprogne caspia).
Grey noddy (Procelsterna caerulea).
Little tern (Sterna nereis).
Sooty tern (Sterna fuscata).
Swallow-tailed tern (Sterna vittata).
White-capped noddy (Megalopterus minutus).
White-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna striata).
White tern (Gygis alba).
White-winged black tern (Hydrochelidon leucoptera).

Thrush—
North Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra tanagra).
South Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra crassirostris).

Tomtit (miromiro)—
Auckland Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala marrineri)
Chatham Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala dieffenbachii).
North Island tomtit (Myiomoira toitoi).
South Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala).

Tropic bird (raukura) (Phaethon rubricauda).
Turnstone (Morinella interpres).

Warbler—
Chatham Island warbler (Pseudogerygone albifrontata).
Grey warbler (riroriro) (Pseudogerygone igata).
Superb warbler (or blue wren) (Malurus cyanochlamys).

Woodhen—
Black woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus brachypterus).
Brown woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis).
North Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis greyi).
South Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus hectori).
Stewart Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis scotti).

Wren—
Blue wren (or superb warbler) (Malurus cyanochlamys).
Green wren (Xenicus longipes).
Rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris).
Stephen Island wren (Traversia lyalli).

SANCTUARIES.

It is illegal, without the authority of the Minister of Internal Affairs, to take any dog or firearm on to a sanctuary, or to discharge any firearm or explosive thereon, or to do anything likely to cause any bird or animal to leave a sanctuary.

Every person who unlawfully takes or kills any bird or animal on a sanctuary is liable to a fine of £10 for such offence, and to a further fine of £1 for each animal or bird so taken or killed.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 46/16/33.)

Open Seasons for Imported Game and/or Native Game in certain Acclimatization Districts.

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 thereby declare open seasons for imported game and/or native game, of the kinds hereinafter specified, in the acclimatization districts specified hereunder, except in the areas shown under the heading “Excepted Areas,” during the periods set forth in connection with each district, subject in all cases to the following general conditions and subject to the special conditions specified in connection with each district. Any person taking or killing any imported game or native game otherwise than in terms of this notification (including the general conditions hereinafter set out and the special conditions specified in connection with any acclimatization district), is liable on conviction to a fine of £20.

GENERAL 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 (except in the Auckland Acclimatization District, where the number of artificial decoys shall be not more than ten), 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) In the Southland Acclimatization District not more than three persons shall take or kill or attempt to take or kill native game over the same set of decoys at any one time.

(d) 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 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.

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.

ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICTS.

ASHBURTON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 68 of 28th September, 1933, at page 2463.)

1. Season for Californian quail, chukor, grey duck, mallard duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, pukeko, Canadian goose, and black swan: 2nd May to 17th May, 1942 (inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill the above imported game and native game within the Ashburton 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 above native game only within the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each; and the Secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

3. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
   (a) Twenty head of Californian quail;
   (b) Ten head of chukor;
   (c) Ten head of mallard duck;
   (d) Twenty-five head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan;
   (e) Ten head in all of grey duck and spoonbill duck;
   (f) Five head of paradise duck;
   (g) Eight head of pukeko; and
   (h) Ten head of Canadian goose.

4. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—
   All that area of land in the Canterbury Land District, intersected by the Wakanui Creek, being Rural Sections 15104, 15510, 17411, and 16673, the property of the late Mr. G. W. Leadley.

AUCKLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 4 of 23rd January, 1930, at page 159.)

1. Season for cock pheasant, Californian quail, Australian quail, grey duck, mallard duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, and pukeko: 2nd May to 17th May, 1942 (inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Auckland 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 Auckland Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

3. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
   (a) Nine head of cock pheasants;
   (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, and mallard duck;
   (c) Fifteen head of black swan; and
   (d) Eight head of pukeko.

4. No person shall take or kill imported and/or native game on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th days of May, 1942, 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 10 a.m. on the 26th day of April, 1942, of a stake with a board attached having plainly marked thereon the name and full postal address of the claimant and the number of his license: