Mar. 27] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 333

3. 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.

4. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
   (a) Twenty-three head in all of cock pheasants, grey duck, and black swan;
   (b) Six 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.

5. No person shall take or kill native or imported game on the 12th, 13th, or 14th days of May, 1945, 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 28th day of April, 1945, 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:—
   (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.

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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: 12th May to 31st July, 1945 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, and black swan: 12th May to 3rd June, 1945 (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-five shillings (25s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill imported game and native game within the said district will be issued to any person receiving an age benefit or a miner’s benefit under the Social Security Act, 1938, on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.); 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 Mink 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: 12th May to 31st July, 1945 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck and paradise duck: 12th May to 3rd June, 1945 (both days inclusive).

3. Season for black swan (in Collingwood County only): 12th May to 3rd June, 1945 (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-five shillings (25s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill imported game and native game within the said district will be issued to any person 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 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) Ten 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.

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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: 12th May to 1st July, 1945 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, pukeko, Canadian goose, and black swan: 12th May to 3rd June, 1945 (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-five shillings (25s.) 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 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) Ten head of paradise duck; and
   (e) Five head of chukor.

5. No person shall take or kill native or imported game during the period 12th May to 3rd June, 1945 (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 12th day of April, 1945, 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 the 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.