✨ Game Hunting Regulations
18 FEBRUARY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck, 15 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: No limit.
Special Conditions
- A licence issued pursuant to this notification to hunt or kill game shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill game in the Bay of Islands, Mangonui-Whangaroa, and Whangarei Acclimatisation Districts, during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in this notification fixing an open season for game in those districts.
Mangonui-Whangaroa Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 78, of 3 December 1970, at page 2365.
Game That May be Hunted or Killed
Duration of
1975–76 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck .. ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Pukeko .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
California and brown quail and cock pheasant .. ... ... .. 3 May to 29 June 1975 incl.
Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck, 15 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: No limit.
Special Conditions
- A licence issued pursuant to this notification to hunt or kill game shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill game in the Bay of Islands, Hobson, and Whangarei Acclimatisation Districts, during the period and subject, mutatis mutandis, to the conditions prescribed in this notification fixing an open season for game in those districts.
Marlborough Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 17, 12 March 1925, at page 751.
Game That May be Hunted or Killed
Duration of
1975–76 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck .. ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Paradise duck .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Pukeko .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
California quail .. ... ... ... 3 May to 24 August 1975 incl.
Chukor .. ... ... ... 3 May to 24 August 1975 incl.
Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Paradise duck, 2.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, and mallard duck, 15 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: No limit.
Special Conditions
- A licence issued pursuant to this notification shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt or kill 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 this notification fixing an open season in that district.
- No person shall, for the purpose of hunting or killing game, use any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo on the waters of the Vernon or Wairau Lagoons which lie generally between the mouth of the Wairau River, south to the Vernon Run, and west to the eastern boundary of Swansdown.
Pukeko, 10.
California and brown quail, no limit.
Cock pheasant, 6.
Nelson Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 78, 4 October 1951, at page 1465.
Game That May be Hunted or Killed
Duration of
1975–76 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Paradise duck (only in that portion of the Nelson Acclimatisation District south of a line from Tophouse to Hope Saddle taking in the Buller River drainage system, excluding all land within the Nelson Lakes National Park) .. ... ... ... 3 May to 18 May 1975 incl.
Pukeko .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Black swan .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
California quail .. ... ... ... 3 May to 31 July 1975 incl.
Cock pheasant .. ... ... ... 1 June to 2 June 1975 incl.
Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Paradise duck, 2.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: No limit.
North Canterbury Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 68, 28 September 1933, at page 2463.
Game That May be Hunted or Killed
Duration of
1975–76 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Paradise duck .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Pukeko .. ... ... ... 3 May to 2 June 1975 incl.
Canada goose (Area A—in that portion of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District which lies to the east of the South Island main trunk railway line) .. ... ... ... 3 May to 27 July 1975 incl.
Canada goose (Area B—in that portion of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District which lies to the west of the South Island main trunk railway line) .. ... ... ... 3 May to 5 October 1975 incl., and midnight 6 February 1976 to 21 March 1976 at midnight incl.
Canada goose (Area C—the Lake Ellesmere goose district, as defined in the Gazette, No. 21, p. 428 of 7 March 1974) .. ... ... ... Midnight 6 February 1976 to 21 March 1976 at midnight incl.
California quail .. ... ... ... 3 May to 27 July 1975 incl.
Cock pheasant .. ... ... ... 2 June to 9 June 1975 incl.
Chukor .. ... ... ... 3 May to 24 August 1975 incl.
Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 5.
Mallard duck, 15.
Paradise duck, 3.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), mallard, and paradise duck, 15 in all.
Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. except that during the period 3 June 1975 to 5 October 1975 inclusive and midnight, 6 February 1976 to 21 March 1976 at midnight inclusive, Canada goose may be shot 24 hours per day.
Decoy limit: No limit.
Pukeko, 2.
Black swan, 1.
California quail, no limit.
Cock pheasant, 1.
Pukeko, 1, north of the Ashley River; 3, south of the Ashley River.
California quail, 5.
Cock pheasant, 2.
Chukor, no limit.
Canada goose, no limit.
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