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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officer under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th April, 1943.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Henry Greathhead Rex Mason, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the Reverend Frank O. B. Lane, of Sydenham, Christchurch, as an Honorary Child Welfare Officer for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending the 31st December, 1943.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Education.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 19th April, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant Alfred Cyril Davis

to be Police Gaoler at Wairoa, vice Sergeant J. T. Moore, transferred.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Resignation of Minister.

Official Secretary's Office,
Government House, Wellington, 16th April, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of—

The Honourable Robert Semple, of the office of Minister of Public Works.

By Command—

D. E. FOUHY, Official Secretary.

Minister appointed.

Official Secretary's Office,
Government House, Wellington, 16th April, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint—

The Honourable Robert Semple to be Minister of Works.

By Command—

D. E. FOUHY, Official Secretary.

Appointment of Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th April, 1943.

BY direction of the Hon. Minister of Marine it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Alexander Thomas Newlands Simpson, of Balclutha,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Otago Acclimatization District.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th April, 1943.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

Henry Hubert Hickling

to be Resident Agent of the Island of Aitutaki under section 12 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915; a Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands under sections 103 and 104 of the said Act; a Deputy Registrar of the High Court under section 110 of the said Act; and Postmaster at Aitutaki, on and from the 26th day of August, 1942.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 10th April, 1943.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

Vernon Dudley Montague Plank, Esquire,

of Hastings, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

A. H. NORDMEYER, Minister in Charge.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game in Hobson 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 Hobson Acclimatization District as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 750, 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: 1st May to 30th June, 1943 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, black swan, and pukeko: 1st May to 16th May, 1943 (both days inclusive).

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, 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.

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.

6. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Hobson 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 Hobson 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-five head in all of cock pheasants, grey duck, and black swan;
   (b) Eight head of cock pheasants;
   (c) Two head of black swan;
   (d) Fifteen head of grey duck;
   (e) Twenty-five head of Californian and/or Australian quail; and
   (f) Eight head of pukeko.

8. No person shall take or kill native or imported game on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd days of May, 1943, 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, 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 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.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1943.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 46/16/7.)