New Zealand Gazette – 1943 – No. 23

Page 416

✨ Hunting Regulations



  1. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native game
    shall not be taken or killed during the open season:-
    All that portion of the Opawa River, situated in the Marlborough
    County, from the eastern boundary of the Borough of
    Blenheim to the western boundary of Mr. M. B. Hope's
    property, known as Blink Bonnie, being Section 33, Opawa
    Registration District, Block XVII, Cloudy Bay Survey
    District.
    NELSON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
    (As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925,
    at page 751.)
  2. Season for Californian quail: 1st May to 30th June, 1943
    (both days inclusive).
  3. Season for grey duck: 1st May to 16th May, 1943 (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): 1st May to 16th May, 1943
    (both days inclusive).
  5. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game
    within the Nelson Acclimatization District will be issued to any
    person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) 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.
  6. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than-
    (a) Twenty head of Californian quail;
    (b) Five head of grey duck; and
    (c) Five head of paradise duck.
  7. Excepted areas wherein 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.
    NORTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
    (As described in New Zealand Gazette No 68 of 28th September,
    1933, at page 2463.)
  8. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, and chukor:
    22nd May to 3rd July, 1943 (both days inclusive).
  9. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise
    duck, pukeko, Canadian goose, and black swan: 1st May to 16th
    May, 1943 (both days inclusive).
  10. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game
    within the North Canterbury Acclimatization District will be issued
    to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.)
    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.
  11. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than-
    (a) Ten head of Californian quail;
    (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, spoonbill
    duck, and mallard duck;
    (c) Twenty-five head of black swan;
    (d) Three head of cock pheasants;
    (e) Ten head of pukeko;
    (f) Five head of paradise duck;
    (g) Ten head of Canadian goose; and
    (h) Five head of chukor.
  12. No person shall take or kill native or imported game during
    the period 1st to 16th May, 1943 (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 1st day of April, 1943, 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Notwithstanding anything contained in conditions 6 to 8
    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, provided
    it is not a power-boat as described in paragraph (3) of Regulation 6,
    Animals Protection and Game Regulations 1939, 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.
  17. 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 Heyward's 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 strip of land
    11 chains wide surrounding the said Lake Sheppard.
    (11) The property of Mr. Douglas Deans, of Darfield, being
    Rural Sections 4010x, 4012, 8985, 8985x, 17568, 17568x,
    22175x, 22176x, 22176w, 22176y, and 22176z, and parts
    of Rural Sections 3222, 3838, 3839, 4010, 4011, 4116,
    4117, 4118, 4119, 8982, 8986, 16085, 22175, and 22176,
    situated in Blocks I and V, Hawkin's Survey District,
    containing by admeasurement 955 acres 3 roods 25 perches,
    and being the land in certificate of title, Vol. 281,
    folio 131, Canterbury Registry.
    (12) The property of the New Zealand Refrigeration Co., Ltd.,
    near Templeton, Islington, and Hornby, containing by
    admeasurement 285 acres 1 rood 23 perches, and being
    Rural Sections 3998, 3077, 4205, part 4382, 9199, 13501,
    1983, 3213, and 330; as the same is delineated more
    particularly on a plan numbered I.A. 52/49, deposited
    in the Head Office of the Department of Internal Affairs,
    Wellington, being thereon outlined in red.
    (13) All that area of land at Flaxton, 1 chain in width, including
    the roadway on either side of the main drain, extending
    in a westerly direction from the Skew Bridge to Smith's
    Road, a distance of two miles, comprising part Rural
    Sections 1762, 1446, 1621, 1613, 1220, 1640, 2066, 1283,
    2010, 1693, 1695, 1685, 1616, 1221, 1058, 1168, and 404,
    Rangiora Survey District.
    (14) All that area of land containing 62 acres, more or less, at
    Coutts Island, in the Land District of Canterbury, and
    being parts of Rural Sections 2208, 2272, 2383, 2384, and
    a portion of closed road situated in Block II of the
    Christchurch Survey District, as shown on plan marked
    I.A. 46/16/25, deposited in the Head Office of the Depart-
    ment of Internal Affairs at Wellington, being thereon
    edged in red.


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🌾 Hunting Regulations for Marlborough Acclimatization District (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Hunting seasons, Game regulations, Marlborough
  • M. B. Hope (Mr), Property owner

🌾 Hunting Regulations for Nelson Acclimatization District

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Hunting seasons, Game regulations, Nelson

🌾 Hunting Regulations for North Canterbury Acclimatization District

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Hunting seasons, Game regulations, North Canterbury
7 names identified
  • Douglas Deans (Mr), Property owner
  • F. C. Archer (Mr), Property owner
  • A. Todd (Mr), Property owner
  • R. B. Johnson (Mr), Property owner
  • L. W. Ferguson (Mr), Property owner
  • W. Antill (Mr), Property owner
  • A. Craighead (Mr), Property owner