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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 14

Open Season for Game in Acclimatisation Districts—North Island

IMPORTANT—The closed game areas published in the Supplement dated 3 May 1960 to the Gazette of 28 April 1960, and in any subsequent Gazette notice, apply to the 1963 open season for game, subject to any amendments thereto and deletions therefrom published in this notice.

This notice applies only to the open season for game in those acclimatisation districts which fall within the North Island.

PURSUANT to the Wildlife Act 1953, the Minister of Internal Affairs declares an open season for game of the kinds specified and in the acclimatisation districts specified in the Second Schedule hereto during the periods and shooting hours set forth in relation to each district, except in the closed game areas published in the Supplement dated 3 May 1960 to the Gazette of 28 April 1960, in the Gazette of 29 March 1961, 27 April 1961, 4 May 1961, 27 July 1961, 15 February 1962, and 5 April 1962, and in this notice, and subject to the special conditions published in this notice, and hereby calls the attention of sportsmen and others to the daily game possession limits set forth in the First Schedule hereto, and to the provisions set forth or referred to in the Fourth Schedule of the Supplement dated 3 May 1960 to the Gazette of 28 April 1960. Any person hunting or killing game otherwise than in the terms of this notification (including the special conditions specified in relation to any acclimatisation district) is liable on conviction to a fine of £50.

FIRST SCHEDULE

DAILY GAME POSSESSION LIMIT

Except where all game is labelled with the following details:

(a) The name and address of the person by whom the game was taken.

(b) The number of the licence to hunt or kill game held by the person by whom the game was taken;

(c) The name of the acclimatisation society by which that licence was issued; and

(d) The date on which the game was taken,

no person shall have in his possession on any one day those species of duck which are game in excess of the following numbers:

Saturday, 4 May 1963: A number of game corresponding to the number specified in this notification as the daily bag limit in respect of grey, mallard, shoveler (or spoon-bill), and paradise ducks.

Sunday, 5 May 1963: Twice the number of game specified for Saturday, 4 May 1963.

Every subsequent day: As for Saturday, 4 May 1963.

SECOND SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT

Reference to Descriptions: Gazette No. 62 of 16 October 1947, at page 1680.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill) mallard, and paradise duck (except that no duck may be hunted or killed on Great Barrier Island)

Black swan

Pukeko

Californian and Australian quail, and cock pheasants

Duration of 1963 Season

4 May to 19 May incl.

4 May to 9 June incl.

4 May to 9 June incl.

4 May to 30 June incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10.

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.

Mallard duck, 10.

Paradise duck, 10.

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill) mallard, and paradise duck, 10 in all.

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Special Conditions

1. No person shall use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Waikare any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo, except within 200 yd of the margin of the said lake.

2. No person shall use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Ngaroto any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo, except within 90 yd of the margin of the said lake.

3. No person shall claim any stand, hide, shelter, maimai, mudhole, loo, louvre, or position, except by the planting thereon of a stake having attached thereto either a board or an identifying label being plainly marked with the name and address of the claimant, and also having attached thereto a metal marker issued to the claimant with his licence.

Closed Game Areas

Add:

89. The Manurewa Oxidation Ponds; being all that land in the Manukau County in Block XIV, Otahuhu Survey District, being lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Deposited Plan No. 46600 (Auckland Registry), and the land below mean high water ordinary spring tides which is cut off from the sea by a bank and comprises the land of the oxidation pond of the Manurewa Sewage Treatment Plant. Also the water lying on and over any of the land herein before described. All as more particularly delineated on a plan lodged at the office of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board and numbered 3618.

90. All the land and river which is within the Borough of Ngaruawahia.

91. Allotments 18, 19, 19A, parts 13A, 14, 16, and 17, Puketura Parish, being 187 acres. The property of Mrs Ella May Fisher and Mr Roy Robert George Fisher.

92. Allotment 643. Whangamarino Parish, Block XI, Maramarua S. D., being 544 acres. The property of Mr G. H. L. Larner, R.D. 4, Te Kauwhata.

93. Part Section 36. Block XVI, Waitoa Survey District, situated Ngarua Road, Waihou, being 94 acres. Property of Mrs M. I. Colson, East Port Road, Waihou.

94. Part Allotments 4. 16. Allotments 17. 70, Otau Parish, Blocks II, III, Opaheke Parish, being 388 acres. The property of Mr Basil Oliver, Hunua via Papakura.

95. Part Lot Dp 9219 of Allotments 29. 52, and part Lot 3 of 30B, Onewhero Parish, and Block VIII, Onewhero S.D., and Block V, Maramarua S.D., being 313 acres. Property of Messrs Mowbray Bros., Murray's Road, Pukekawa R.D. 1, Tuakau.

96. Section 20. 45. Block III, Aroha S.D., being 100 acres. Property of Mrs J. H. Sleep, Box 17, P.O. Waihi.

97. Allotment 52, Lot 1, D.P. S. 3216. Parish of Onewhero and Allotment 54, Parish of Onewhero. Block VIII, Onewhero S.D., and Blocks I and V, Maramarua S.D., together with the riparian rights to approximately 1½ miles of the Waikato River, being 310 acres. The property of Mr C. W. Harper, Quarry Road, Pukekawa.

98. Section 7. 8. Block II, Awaroa S.D., being 946 acres. Property of Mr J. N. Bouskill, Onewhero.

99. Section 5. 6. Block II, Awaroa S.D., being 815 acres. Property of Mr W. W. Bouskill, Onewhero.

100. Section II, Block XV, Kaipara S.D., being 526 acres. Property of Mr A. G. Trotter, Lochnorrie R.D., Helensville.

Bay of Islands Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925, at page 749.

Duration of

Game that May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck, and black swan

Pukeko

Californian and Australian quail, and cock pheasants

Daily Bag Limits

Grey Duck, 10.

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.

Mallard duck (female), 10.

Mallard drake, 15.

Grey, shoveler (spoonbill), and mallard (male and female) duck, 10 in all, except that 5 extra mallard drakes only may be taken.

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

1963 Season

4 May to 26 May incl.

4 May to 9 June incl.

4 May to 30 June incl.

Black swan, 8.

Pukeko, 10.

Californian and Australian quail, no limit.

Cock pheasant, 6.

Hawera Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 14 of 25 February 1960, at page 249.

Duration of

Game that May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, paradise duck, and black swan

Pukeko

Californian quail and cock pheasants

Daily Bag Limits

Grey Duck, 10.

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.

Mallard duck, 10.

Paradise duck, 10.

Cock pheasant, 3.

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

4 May to 26 May incl.

4 May to 9 June incl.

4 May to 31 July incl.

Black swan, 5.

Pukeko, 10.

Californian quail, no limit.