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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 14

South Canterbury Acclimatisation District.
Southern Lakes Acclimatisation District.
Southland Acclimatisation District.
Tauranga Acclimatisation District.
Waitaki Valley Acclimatisation District.
Wellington Acclimatisation District.
Whangarei Acclimatisation District.

THIRD SCHEDULE

CONDITIONS

1. The conditions specified in the 1979 game season notification for the North Island and the 1979-80 Game Season Notification for the South Island apply.

2. This approval will expire at the end of the duration of the open season for game specified in the notifications referred to in 1 immediately above.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of February 1979.

D. A. HIGHER, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. Wil. 8/2/2)

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 acclimatisation districts and subject to the conditions specified in the Second Schedule hereto, excepting the closed game areas published 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, 21 April 1979. Twice the number of game specified for Saturday, 21 April 1979.

Every subsequent day: As for Saturday, 21 April 1979.

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 spoonbill), and mallard duck ....
Paradise duck (only in that portion of the Ashburton Acclimatisation District west of Highway No. 72)
Pukeko (except in the Ashburton Acclimatisation District west of the Blowing Point Bridge on the Ashburton River)
Black swan (only in that portion of the Ashburton District west of State Highway No. 72)
California quail
Cock pheasant
Chukor
Canada goose

Duration of 1979-80 Season

21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 29 April 1979 incl.
21 April to 26 August 1979 incl.
28 April to 6 May 1979 incl.
21 April to 26 August 1979 incl.
21 April to 28 October 1979 incl.
Midnight 1 February 1980 to 23 March 1980 at midnight incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 25.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 25.
Mallard duck, 25.
Paradise duck, 5.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, and mallard duck, 25 in all.

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. except that during the period 18 June 1979 to 28 October 1979 inclusive, and midnight 1 February 1980 to 23 March 1980 at midnight inclusive, Canada goose may be shot 24 hours per day.

Decoy limit: No limit.

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 spoonbill), and mallard duck ....
Paradise duck (area A—Kaikoura County; the Acheron river watershed; the Awatere river watershed upstream of the junction of the Grey and Awatere rivers; the Waihopai river watershed upstream of the Power House on the Waihopai river; the Wairau river watershed upstream of the junction of Pine Valley and Wairau rivers and upstream of Wairau Valley township. Area B—the remainder of the Marlborough Acclimatisation District)
Pukeko
California quail
Chukor
Black swan
Canada goose (only in that portion of the Marlborough Acclimatisation District west of State Highway No. 1)

Duration of 1979-80 Season

21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 26 August 1979 incl.
21 April to 26 August 1979 incl.
21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 28 October 1979 incl, and midnight 1 February 1980 to 23 March 1980 at midnight incl.

Daily Bag Limits

Grey duck, 25.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 25.
Mallard duck, 25.
Paradise duck: area A, 5; area B, 3.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, and mallard duck, 25 in all.

Shooting hours: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., or any period within these hours except that during the period 18 June to 28 October 1979 inclusive, and midnight 1 February 1980 to 23 March 1980 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 Swanson.

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.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed

Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck ....
Paradise duck

Duration of 1979-80 Season

21 April to 17 June 1979 incl.
21 April to 6 May 1979 incl. and 2 June to 4 June 1979 incl.