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Provided, however, that any stand which is not occupied by
the claimant within half an hour after sunrise on any of the afore-
said 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.
(9) Section 4, Block III, Takahue Survey District. Present
occupier, C. B. Michie.
(10) Section 5s, Upokonui Settlement, Block III, Takahue
Survey District. All D.P. 25572, part Section 4, Block III,
Takahue Survey District, Koniti A 4 and A 4A, Block
VII, Takahue Survey District. Present occupier, R. H.
Michie.
(11) All land on D.P. 13672 of 1 of O.L.C. 214, Puckey’s Grant,
Block I, Takahue Survey District. Present occupier,
R. I. McDonald, formerly A. G. R. Wilkinson.
(12) All that piece of land bounded as follows : Commencing
from a point on Wireless Road at the intersection of
that road and the Awanui-Kaitaia Main Highway ;
thence along Wireless Road and a line projected in a
westerly direction to the Awanui River ; thence in a
northerly direction along the right bank of that river
to the intersection of Gill’s Road ; thence along Gill’s
Road in an easterly direction to the main Awanui-
Kaitaia Highway ; and thence in a southerly direction
along that highway to the point of commencement.

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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 : 4th May to 31st
   July, 1946 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise duck, pukeko,
   and black swan : 4th May to 2nd June, 1946 (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 and spoonbill duck ;
(d) Five head of paradise duck ;
(e) Fifteen head of black swan ;
(f) Ten head of pukeko ; and
(g) Six head of chukor.

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.

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

1. Season for Californian quail : 4th May to 31st July, 1946
   (both days inclusive).

2. Season for grey duck, pukeko, and paradise duck : 4th May
   to 2nd June, 1946 (both days inclusive).

3. Season for black swan (in Collingwood County only) : 4th
   May to 2nd June, 1946 (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 ;
(c) Ten head of paradise duck ; and
(d) Five head of pukeko.

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 :
   4th May to 30th June, 1946 (both days inclusive).

2. Season for mallard duck, grey duck, spoonbill duck, paradise
   duck, pukeko, Canadian goose, and black swan : 4th May to 2nd June,
   1946 (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) Five 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 4th May to 2nd June, 1946 (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 4th day of April, 1946, 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.