16 FEBRUARY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
315

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—AUCKLAND CONSERVANCY—
WHANGAROA COUNTY

ALLOTMENT S.E. 61, Pupuke Parish, situated in Block XII,
Mangataniwha Survey District: area, 2.0234 hectares, more
or less (S.O. 813).

Allotment 118, Pupuke Parish, situated in Block IX, Kaco
Survey District: area, 54.2278 hectares, more or less
(S.O. Plan 5162).

As shown on plan N10/5, 6, deposited in the Head Office of
the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of February 1978.

VENN YOUNG, Minister of Forests.

(F.S. 9/1/538, 6/1/5; L. and S. H.O. 10/91/68)

Open Season for Game in Acclimatisation Districts—South Island

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

PURSUANT to the Wildlife Act 1953, the Minister of Internal
Affairs declares an open season for game in the acclimatisa-
tion districts, and subject to the conditions specified in the
Second Schedule hereto, excepting the closed game areas pub-
lished in the supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of 18
February 1975, and subject to any amendments in any
subsequent Gazette notice and in this notice.

The attention of sportsmen and others is drawn to the
daily game possession limits set forth in the First Schedule
hereto and to the provisions of the Wildlife Act 1953, and
the Wildlife Regulations 1955.

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 game
in excess of the following numbers:

Saturday, 6 May 1978: A number of game corresponding
to the number specified in this notification as the daily
bag limit.

Sunday, 7 May 1978: Twice the number of game specified
for Saturday, 6 May 1978.

Every subsequent day: As for Saturday, 6 May 1978.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Ashburton Acclimatisation District

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

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoon-
bill), and mallard duck ....
Paradise duck (only in that
portion of the Ashburton
Acclimatisation District
west of Highway No. 72)
Pukeko (except in the Ash-
burton Acclimatisation Dis-
trict west of the Blowing
Point Bridge on the Ash-
burton River) ....
Black Swan (only in that
portion of the Ashburton
District west of State High-
way No. 72) ....
California quail ....
Cock pheasant ....
Chukor ....
Canada goose ....

Duration of 1978–79 Season

15 April to 18 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 18 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 18 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 30 April 1978 incl.
22 April to 30 July 1978 incl.
22 April to 30 April 1978 incl.
22 April to 30 July 1978 incl.
Midnight 2 February 1979 to
25 March 1979 at midnight
incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 25.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 25.
Mallard duck, 25.
Paradise duck, 5.
Grey, shoveler (or spoon-
bill), paradise, and mal-
lard duck, 25 in all.

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. except that during the
period 19 June 1978 to 29 October 1978 inclusive, and mid-
night 2 February 1979 to 25 March 1979 at midnight inclusive,
Canada goose may be shot 24 hours per day.

Decoy limit: No limit.

Closed Game Areas

Delete:

No. (2) Ashburton County Council Reserve No. 1439,
corner Wheatstone Road and Grahams Road.

Add:

No. (2) All that land in the Canterbury Land District inter-
sected by the Wakanui Creek, being Rural Sections 15104,
15510, 17411, and 16673, the property of Mr R. F. Leadly.

No. (3) The property of Messrs Ross Bros., Westerfield,
being R. S. 28890, 28999, 29000, 29189, Blocks VI and X,
Westerfield.

No. (4) The property of Mr and Mrs R. Gregory, being
Lot 2, D.P. 11497, R.S. 23979, 25005, 25298, and part R.S.
14618, and 19418, Lot 3, D.P. 11497, R.S. 25299, 26714, and
35991, Block II, Westerfield Survey District.

No. (5) The property of Mr J. I. A. Studholme, R.S. 2582,
Block I, Lots 1 and 4, Coldstream S.D., D.P. 8841.

Marlborough Acclimatisation District

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

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoon-
bill), and mallard duck ....
Paradise duck ....
Pukeko ....
California quail ....
Chukor ....
Black swan ....
Canada goose (only in that
portion of the Marl-
borough Acclimatisation
District west of State
Highway No. 1) ....

Duration of 1978–79 Season

15 April to 18 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 5 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 5 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 27 August 1978 incl.
15 April to 5 June 1978 incl.
15 April to 29 October 1978
incl. and midnight 2 Feb-
ruary 1979 to 25 March 1979
at midnight incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 25.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 25.
Mallard duck, 25.
Paradise duck, 5 in the Kai-
koura county; 3 in the
remainder of the district.
Pukeko, 3.

Shooting hours: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. or any period within these
hours except that during the period 19 June to 29 October
1978 inclusive, and midnight 2 February 1979 to 25 March
1979 at midnight inclusive, Canada goose may be hunted or
killed 24 hours a day.

Decoy limit: No limit.

Special Conditions

1. 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 Swans-
   down.

2. It shall be an offence for any person to wilfully leave
   in the field the bodies or parts of bodies of black swan or
   other game shot, in the Marlborough Acclimatisation District.

Nelson Acclimatisation District

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