New Zealand Gazette – 1955 – No. 14

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✨ Hunting Season Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 14

Bay of Islands Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 749.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, and mallard duck and black swan
Pukeko
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 29 May incl.
7 May to 26 June incl.
7 May to 26 June incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey, spoonbill, and mallard duck, 10 in all.
Black swan, 4.
Pukeko, 15.

East Coast Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 27 of 29 March 1923 at page 858.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck, black swan
Pukeko, Californian, Australian, and Virginian quail, and cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 29 May incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey and spoonbill duck, 10 in all.
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Cock pheasants, 3.
Mallard, 5.

Hawera Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 750.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, mallard, and paradise duck, and black swan
Pukeko
Californian quail and cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 29 May incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey, mallard, and paradise duck, 10 in all.
Black swan, 5.
Pukeko, no limit.
Californian quail, no limit.
Cock pheasants, 6.

Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 750.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck and black swan
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants
Pukeko

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 22 May incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey and spoonbill duck, 10 in all.
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Black swan, 5.
Pukeko, no limit.
Cock pheasant, 2.
Californian and Australian quail, 10 in all.
Paradise duck, 7.

Hobson Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 750.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard duck and black swan
Pukeko
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 29 May incl.
7 May to 19 June incl.
7 May to 19 June incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Black swan, 2.
Pukeko, 15.
Californian and Australian quail, 20 in all.
Cock pheasants, 6.
Mallard and Spoonbill duck, 2 in all.
Grey duck, 10.
Grey, spoonbill, mallard duck, black swan, and cock pheasant, 18 in all.

Mangonui-Whangaroa Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 751.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, and mallard duck and black swan
Pukeko
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 29 May incl.
7 May to 19 June incl.
7 May to 19 June incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey, spoonbill, and mallard duck, 10 in all.
Black swan, 4.
Pukeko, 15.

Marlborough Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925 at page 751.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck
Black swan and pukeko
Californian quail, chukar (except in the area bounded on the west by the Taylor Pass, south by the Awatere River, north by the Opawa River, and east by the sea)

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 5 June incl.
7 May to 5 June incl.
4 June to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey, spoonbill, paradise, and mallard duck, 10 in all.
Black swan, 15.
Pukeko, 20.
Californian quail, 15.
Chukar, 10.
Paradise duck, 5.

Nelson Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 78 of 4 October 1951 at page 1465.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey and paradise duck, black swan (in Collingwood County only)
Pukeko
Californian quail

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 5 June incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 5.
Paradise duck, 10.
Black swan, 5.
Pukeko, 10.
Californian quail, 20.

North Canterbury Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 68 of 28 September 1933 at page 2463.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck
Black swan and Canada goose*
Pukeko
Cock pheasants
Chukar
Californian quail

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 5 June incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
7 May to 12 June incl.
7 May to 22 May incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
4 June to 3 July incl.

*Canada goose: Only in that portion of the North Canterbury Acclimatization District which lies to the east of the South Island Main Trunk Railway line.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey and spoonbill duck, 10 in all.
Paradise duck, 5.
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Black swan, pukeko, and Canada goose, no limit.
Californian quail, 10.
Chukar, 10.
Cock pheasants, 2.

Special Conditions.—No hut, mudhole, stand, hide, shelter, mai-mai, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall be used in any part of Lake Ellesmere in which the water is of greater depth than 24 in.

Otago Acclimatization District
Reference to Description: New Zealand Gazette No. 50 of 26 July 1945 at page 945.

Game that May be Taken or Killed
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck
Black swan
Pukeko
Californian quail and chukar
Hen pheasants
Cock pheasants

Duration of 1955 Season
7 May to 5 June incl.
7 May to 5 June incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
7 May to 31 July incl.
4 June to 31 July incl.
4 June to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey and spoonbill duck, 10 in all.
Mallard duck, 12.
Paradise duck, 8.
Grey, spoonbill, mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Black swan, no limit.
Pukeko, no limit.
Californian quail, 20.
Chukar, 10.
Hen pheasant, 1.
Cock pheasant, 2.

Special Conditions.—1. No person shall use or cause to be used on any water within the district for the hunting or killing of game any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo except within a distance of half a chain from the margin of such

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