✨ Game Hunting Seasons




26 MARCH

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.
Decoy limit: 10.

Tauranga Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925, at
page 753.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck,
and black swan and pukeko
Californian and Australian quail, and cock
pheasants

Duration of
1965 Season
1 May to 23
May incl.
1 May to 4
July incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10.
Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5.
Mallard duck, 10.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill),
and mallard duck, 10 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: 10.

Waimarino Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 70 of 5 November 1964,
at page 2013.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck
and black swan
Paradise duck
Pukeko
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants

Duration of
1965 Season
1 May to 23
May incl.
1 May to 27
June incl.
1 May to 25
July incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5. Black swan, 8.
Grey duck, 10. Pukeko, 10.
Mallard duck (female), 10. Californian and Australian quail,
Mallard drake, 15. no limit.
Paradise duck, 10. Cock pheasant, no limit.
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.
Decoy limit: 10.

Waimate Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925, at
page 754.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck..
Paradise duck (only in that portion of the left bank
and left half, looking downstream, of the Waitaki
River which is between the Waitangi Bridge and
the river's junction with Stony Creek)
Black swan (provided that no person shall take or kill
any cygnet or young swan incapable of making a
sustained flight)
Pukeko
Canada goose
Californian quail
Chukar

Duration of
1965 Season
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 1
August incl.
1 May to 1
August incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10. Black swan, 8.
Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5. Pukeko, 10.
Mallard duck (female), 10. Canada goose, no limit.
Mallard drake, 15. Californian quail, 10.
Paradise duck, 2. Chukar, no limit.
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: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Decoy limit: 10, except in that portion of the district above the
Benmore Dam and including Lake Benmore where the limit may
be 20 of which not more than 10 shall be other than Canada goose
decoys.

Special Conditions

  1. A licence issued pursuant to this notification to hunt or kill
    game shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill waterfowl,
    being grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, or paradise duck,
    black swan, or pukeko, or Canada goose, on the flood bed of that
    part of the Waitaki River between the Kurow Dam and the sea
    which is within the Waitaki Acclimatisation District during the
    period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed
    in the notification fixing an open season for those species in that
    district.

  2. No person shall for the purpose of hunting or killing game
    build, or attempt to build, or claim, any stand, hide, shelter,
    maimai, mudhole, loo, louvre, or position before 9 a.m. on 3 April

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

  4. Canada goose is game in that part of the Waimate Acclimatisation
    District which lies to the east of the South Island Main Trunk
    Railway and in that part of the left bank, left half looking down-
    stream, of the Waitaki River from its confluence with the Ahuriri
    River to the sea.

Waitaki Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 17 of 12 March 1925, at
page 754.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck,
and black swan
Paradise duck
Pukeko
Canada goose
Californian quail
Chukar

Duration of
1965 Season
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 7
June incl.
1 May to 1
August incl.
1 May to 1
August incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 10. Black swan, 8.
Shoveler (or spoonbill) duck, 5. Californian quail, 10.
Paradise duck, 2. Canada goose, no limit.
Mallard duck (female), 10. Pukeko, 10.
Mallard drake, 15. Chukar, no limit.
Grey, shoveler (spoonbill), para-
dise, and mallard (male and
female) duck, 10 in all, except
that 5 extra mallard drakes
only may be taken.
Shooting hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Decoy limit: 10.

Special Conditions

  1. Paradise duck may be shot in that portion of the Waitaki
    Acclimatisation District lying to the west of a straight line running
    in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction through Waitangi
    Bridge.

  2. Canada goose is game in that part of the Waitaki Acclimatisation
    District which lies east of the Otematata River which in its
    headwaters is known as Blue Duck Creek.

  3. A licence issued pursuant to this notification to hunt or kill
    game shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill waterfowl, being
    grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, or paradise duck, black
    swan, pukeko, or Canada goose, on the flood bed of that part of
    the Waitaki River between the Kurow Dam and the sea which is
    within the Waimate Acclimatisation District during the period and
    subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in the notification
    fixing an open season for those species in that district.

  4. No person shall for the purposes of hunting or killing game
    build, or attempt to build, any stand, hide, shelter, maimai, mud-
    hole, loo, louvre, or position before 9 a.m. on 3 April 1965.

  5. A stand may be claimed by the planting thereon at any time
    after 9 a.m. on 3 April 1965 of a stake with the official tag attached
    having plainly marked thereon the name and address of the claimant
    and the number of his licence.

Wanganui Acclimatisation District

Reference to Description: Gazette No. 70 of 5 November 1964,
at page 2013.

Game that May be Hunted or Killed
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck,
and black swan
Paradise duck
Californian and Australian quail and cock pheasants
Pukeko

Duration of
1965 Season
1 May to 23
May incl.
1 May to 27
June incl.
1 May to 1
August incl.
1 May to 7
June incl.



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