332 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 28

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

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

——

HAWKE’S BAY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 750.)

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail: 6th May to 2nd July, 1944 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, pukeko, and black swan, 6th May to 21st May, 1944 (both days inclusive).

3. 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.

4. 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 paradise duck;
   (e) Five head of black swan; and
   (f) Two head of pukeko.

5. No person shall take or kill imported or native game on the 6th, 7th, or 8th days of May, 1944, 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 3 p.m. on the 22nd day of April, 1944, 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.

6. Excepted areas 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.

——

HOBSON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 750.)

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black swan, and pukeko: 6th May to 21st May, 1944 (both days inclusive).

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. No person shall take or kill native or imported game on the 6th, 7th, or 8th days of May, 1944, 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 29th day of April, 1944, 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.

——

LAKES DISTRICT ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 62 of 9th August, 1934, at page 2451.)

1. Season for Californian quail: 6th May to 31st July, 1944 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, paradise duck, pukeko, and Canadian goose: 6th May to 28th May, 1944 (both days inclusive).

3. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Lakes District Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the Lakes District Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

4. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
   (a) Twenty-five head of Californian quail;
   (b) Fifteen head in all of grey duck and paradise duck;
   (c) Ten head of grey duck;
   (d) Ten head of paradise duck; and
   (e) Fifteen head of pukeko.

5. Excepted area wherein imported game and/or native game shall not be taken or killed during the open season:—

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 230 acres, more or less, being part of the Town of Kinloch, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by the northern side of Loch Carron Street; towards the east by the eastern side of Nevis Street; towards the south by the southern side of Skye Street; towards the east generally by the eastern side of Armadale Street; towards the south by the southern side of Barra Street; and towards the west by the western side of Islay Street; and excepting from the said parcel of land Sections 1 to 5, Block I, Sections 3, 4, and 27, Block XVII, Section 6, Block XVIII, Sections 3 to 7, 10 to 13, Block XX, Sections 8 to 15, Block XXI, Town of Kinloch. As the same is more particularly shown on plan marked L. and S. 23/807, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

——

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

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, and Australian quail, grey duck, black swan, and pukeko: 6th May to 21st May, 1944 (both days inclusive).

2. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Mangonui-Whangaroa 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 Mangonui-Whangaroa 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-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.