5 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
323

Cancellation of the Vesting in the Wallace County Council and Revocation of the Reservation Over Part of a Reserve

Pursuant to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby cancels the vesting in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wallace and revokes the reservation over that part of the reserve for a gravel pit described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT

Section 66 (formerly part Section 58), Block IV, Jacobs River Hundred: Area, 11 acres 3 roods 28·6 perches, more or less. Part certificate of title, Volume 118, folio 213 (S.O. Plan 7028).

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of March 1964.

R. G. GERARD, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 6/5/100; D.O. 8/5/18)

Open Season for Game in Acclimatisation Districts—South 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 1964 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 are in the South 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 Gazettes of 29 March 1961, 27 April 1961, 4 May 1961, 27 July 1961, 22 March 1962, 28 March 1963, and 24 April 1963, 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 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, 2 May 1964: A number of game corresponding to the number specified in this notification as the daily bag limit in respect of grey, mallard, shoveler (or spoonbill), and paradise ducks.

Sunday, 3 May 1964: Twice the number of game specified for Saturday, 2 May 1964.

Every subsequent day: As for Saturday, 2 May 1964.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Ashburton Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 68 of 28 September 1933, at page 2463.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, and paradise duck, and pukeko .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Black swan .... .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Californian quail and chukar .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10.

Shoveler, 5.

Mallard duck (female), 10.

Mallard drake, 15.

Paradise duck, 5.

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, 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.

Special Conditions

1. A licence issued subject to this notification to hunt or kill game shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill game on that portion of the bank and bed of the Rakaia River which lies within the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in this notification fixing an open season for game in that district.

2. A licence issued subject to this notification shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill game on that portion of the river bed of the Rangitata River which lies within the South Canterbury Acclimatisation District during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in this notification fixing the open season for that district.

Marlborough Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925, at page 751.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, and paradise duck .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Black swan .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Pukeko .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Californian quail .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Chukar .... .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10.

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.

Mallard duck (female), 10.

Mallard drake, 15.

Paradise duck, 10.

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, 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.

Special Conditions

A licence issued pursuant to this notification shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt game on that portion of the bank and bed of the Conway River which lies within the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in the notification fixing an open season in that district.

Closed Game Areas

Add:

(2) Opawa River from Blenheim Borough boundary to the butter factory at Riverslands.

Nelson Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 78 of 4 October 1951, at page 1465.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, and paradise duck, and black swan .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Pukeko .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Californian quail .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10.

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.

Mallard duck, 10.

Paradise duck, 4.

Grey, shoveler or (spoonbill), paradise, 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.

North Canterbury Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 68 of 28 September 1933, at page 2463.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Black swan .... .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Pukeko (but with a closed season north of Ashley River for the species) .... .... .... 2 May to 1 June incl.

Canada goose (only in that portion of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District which lies to the east of the South Island Main Trunk railway line) .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Californian quail .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.

Chukar .... .... .... 2 May to 31 July incl.