New Zealand Gazette – 1981 – No. 25

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✨ Game Hunting Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 25

Hobson Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 78, of 3 December 1970, at page 2364.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed	Duration of 1981–82 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Paradise duck	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Pukeko	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Black swan	2 May to 1 June 1981 incl.
California and brown quail and cock pheasant	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Paradise duck, 2.
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.

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 1981 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Paradise duck	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Pukeko	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.
Black swan	2 May to 1 June 1981 incl.
California and brown quail and cock pheasant	2 May to 28 June 1981 incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 15.
Paradise duck, 2.
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.

Marlborough Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 17, 12 March 1925, at page 751.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed	Duration of 1981–82 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
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)	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Pukeko	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Black swan	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
California quail	11 April to 23 August 1981 incl.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed	Duration of 1981–82 Season
Chukor	11 April to 23 August 1981 incl.
Canada goose (only in that portion of the Marlborough Acclimatisation District west of State Highway No. 1)	11 April to 25 October 1981 incl., and 6 February 1982 to 14 March 1982 incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Pukeko, 6.
Black swan, 3.
Mallard duck, 30.
Chukor, no limit.
Canada goose, no limit.
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), paradise, and mallard duck, 30 in all.

Shooting hours: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. or any period within these hours except that during the period 29 June to 25 October 1981 inclusive and 6 February 1982 to 14 March 1982 inclusive, Canada goose may be hunted or killed 24 hours per day.
Decoy limit: No limit.

Special Conditions

No person shall, for the purpose of hunting or killing game, use any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo on the waters of Upper Lagoon to Morgans Creek and Chandlers Lagoon, situated approximately 10 kilometres south-east of Blenheim.
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 page 1465.

Game That May be Hunted or Killed	Duration of 1981–82 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Paradise duck	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Pukeko	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Black swan	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
Canada goose	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.
California quail	11 April to 23 August 1981 incl.
Cock pheasant	30 May to 1 June 1981 incl.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, 15.
Shoveler (or spoonbill), 15.
Mallard duck, 20.
Paradise duck, 5, only in that portion of the Nelson Acclimatisation District south of a line from Tophouse to the Hope Saddle taking in the Buller River system but excluding all land within Nelson Lakes National Park; 2 in the remainder of the District.

Shooting hours: 6.15 a.m. to 7 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 1981–82 Season
Grey, shoveler (or spoonbill), and mallard duck	11 April to 28 June 1981 incl.

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