APRIL 3]

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 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.
5. Excepted areas wherein imported game and/or native game
   shall not be taken or killed during the open season:
   (1) The Council's reserve at Lake Ngatau.
   (2) Kaitaia Town District.
   (3) Pukepoto No. 7 Block, Takahue Survey District.
   (4) Part Old Land Claim No. 8, Blocks V and IX, Takahue Survey District.
   (5) Part of land in D.P. 8655, North Auckland Land District,
   being portion Pukepoto 8A, Ahipara and Takahue Survey Districts.
   (6) Sections 8 and 9, Block VI, and Sections 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, and
   18, Block X, Takahue Survey District.
   (7) Sections 49, 50, 55, 56, and 31, Block X, Takahue Survey District.
   (8) Part Section 13 and part Section 14, Block X, Takahue Survey District.

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

1. Season for Californian quail and chukor : 6th May to 31st July, 1944 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, and black swan : 6th May to 28th May, 1944 (both days inclusive).
3. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Marlborough Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the Marlborough 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) Twenty-five head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, and black swan;
   (c) Ten head in all of grey duck, paradise duck, and spoonbill duck;
   (d) Five head of paradise duck;
   (e) Fifteen head of black swan; and
   (f) Six head of chukor: Provided that not more than twenty-four head may be taken or killed by any one person during the open season hereby declared.
5. 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.)

1. Season for Californian quail : 6th May to 31st July, 1944 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for grey duck and paradise duck : 6th May to 28th May, 1944 (both days inclusive).
3. Season for black swan (in Collingwood County only): 6th May to 28th May, 1944 (both days inclusive).
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian quail, and chukor : 6th May to 30th June, 1944 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, pukeko, Canadian goose, and black swan : 6th May to 28th May, 1944 (both days inclusive).
3. 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.
4. 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) Three head of cock pheasants;
   (d) Fifteen head of pukeko;
   (e) Five head of paradise duck; and
   (f) Five head of chukor.
5. No person shall take or kill native or imported game during the period 6th to 28th May, 1944 (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 6th 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 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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) Glenmark Lagoon.
    (4) Cheviot Lagoon.
    (5) 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.
    (6) 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.