APRIL 12] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 387

Open Seasons for Imported Game and Native Game in North
Canterbury and Wellington Acclimatization Districts

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 amend the
Warrant dated 23rd March, 1945, made under the Animals Pro-
tection and Game Act, 1921–22, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 21 of the 27th idem at page 329 et seq., by deleting all
those portions of such Warrant included under the headings “North
Canterbury Acclimatization District” and “Wellington Acclima-
tization District,” and doth hereby declare open seasons for
imported game and/or native game of the kinds hereinafter specified
in the acclimatization districts specified hereunder, except in the
areas shown under the heading “Excepted Areas,” during the
periods set forth in connection with each district, subject, in each
case, to the following general conditions and subject to the special
conditions specified in connection with each district. Any person
taking or killing any imported game or native game otherwise than
in terms of this notification (including the general conditions here-
inafter set out and the special conditions specified in connection
with each acclimatization district) is liable on conviction to a fine
of £20.

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GENERAL 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 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.

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ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICTS

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;
   (e) Five head of chukor; and
   (f) Twenty head of pukeko.

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.

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.

(7) 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.

(8) All that area in the Canterbury Land District, being Rural
Sections 4300, 4357, 4591, 4592, and 5235, situated in
Block XVI, Waipara Survey District.

(9) 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’s 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.

(10) 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.