21 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
829

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. except that during the period 1 June 1984 to 31 March 1985 inclusive, Canada goose may be shot 24 hours per day during the specified open season.
Decoy limit: No limit.

Auckland Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 62, of 16 October 1947 at page 1680.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, no limit
Shoveler (or spoonbill), no limit
Mallard duck, no limit
Paradise duck (Taumarunui County), 6

Shooting hours: 6.30 am to 6.30 pm
Decoy limit: No limit

Special Conditions

1. Excepting that temporarily moored floating stands may be used, no person shall use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Waikare any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo, except within 180 metres of the outer margin of the said lake, or the shore-line of that island known as Motu Nuia or Grape Island.

2. No person shall use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Ngaroto any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo, on any open water of the said lake.

3. No person shall use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Rotokauri any fixed stand, pontoon, hide, maimai, or loo, except within 85 metres of the margin of the said lake.

4. It shall be an offence for any person to wilfully leave on the hunting ground any black swan(s) shot or the mutilated bodies of any black swan(s) shot.

5. It shall be an offence for any person to herd or drive black swan(s) for the purpose of hunting or killing them.

6. It shall be an offence to shoot game from any unmoored boat on the Waikato River north of the boat ramp at the confluence of the Mangawara Stream and the Waikato River at Taupiri on any of the first three days or the second weekend of the open season.

Closed Game Areas
Delete:
(2) “All that area from an imaginary line across the Waikato River between Weti Clark’s Point on the Port Waikato side and Hill’s Drain on the Otawa side to the Waikato Heads; and a strip of land 20 metres wide on both banks of such portion of the said river.”

Add:
(54) “All that area of the Waikato River below Mean High Water Spring Tide from the Tasman Sea inland to an imaginary line commencing from a marker at the exit of the Fishermans Road drain on the north-western side of the river in Block VII, Maioro S.D., bearing 126° true to a marker on the south-eastern side of the river.”

Delete:
(54) “Section 10/14, Block VI, Aroha S.D., Franklin Road, Waitawheta, Waihi, the property of J I Stevens, No 2 R.D., Waitawheta, Waihi.”

Add:
(54) “Section 10/14, Block VI, Aroha S.D., Franklin Road, Waitawheta, Waihi, the property of A I Sharpe, No 2 R.D., Waitawheta, Waihi.”

Delete:
(72) Part Lot 1, D.P. 7516 Block IX, Komakorau S.D. comprising more or less 51.9033 hectares, contained in C/T 663/141, property of T C Henderson, No. 1 R.D., Hamilton.

Add:
(72) That portion of land on the property of N J Henderson Part Lot 1, D.P. 7516 Block IX, Komakorau S.D., lying within 100 metres of Lake E wildlife refuge.

Add:
(145) “Southern Lake Waikare: All that area in the South Auckland Land District in the Waikato County bounded by a line commencing from a point in Lake Waikare 800 metres due south of Trig Station 1231 in Whangamarino Parish, Block IV, Rangiriri Survey District thence proceeding south-easterly generally along a right line to a point 800 metres due north of the boundary peg at the north-western corner of Lot 1 D.P.S. 26990, Whangamarino Parish, Block VIII, Rangiriri Survey District, thence to a point due east along a right line for 1500 metres, thence due north along a right line to a point 600 metres due west of the boundary peg at the south-western corner of Allotment 442c. S.O. 19562 in Block I, Whangamarino Parish, Hapuakohe Survey District, thence westerly and southerly generally along a right line to the place of commencement.”

OPEN SEASON FOR GAME IN A DESCRIBED AREA OF THE FIRTH OF THAMES FOR THE 1984 GAME SEASON
An open season for game is declared in that area of the Firth of Thames hereinafter named the Firth of Thames Open Game Area and being that area that is enclosed between the boundary of the Auckland Acclimatisation District and a line connecting the points on that boundary by passing through Orete Point on the west side of the Firth and the southern headland of Fantail Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula subject to the conditions specified hereto and in the First Schedule.

Conditions

1. Game may only be hunted or killed in the Firth of Thames Open Game Area in compliance with conditions specified for the Auckland Acclimatisation District 1984 open season for game.

2. Any licence authorising the holder to hunt or kill game within the Auckland Acclimatisation District for the 1984 open season for game shall similarly authorise the holder to hunt or kill game in the Firth of Thames Open Game Area.

Bay of Islands Acclimatisation District
Reference to Description: Gazette, No. 78, of 3 December 1970, at page 2365.

Daily Bag Limits
Grey duck, no limit
Shoveler (or spoonbill), no limit
Mallard duck, no limit
Paradise duck, 4
Pukeko, 10
Black swan, 4
California and brown quail, no limit
Cock pheasant, 5

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Decoy limit: No limit

Special Conditions

1. It shall be an offence for any person to wilfully leave on the hunting ground any black swan(s) or parts of bodies of black swan(s) or other game, shot in the Bay of Islands Acclimatisation District.

2. The approval to hunt or kill waterfowl while not in flight, as stated in the First Schedule of this notice, shall not apply in respect of black swan (Cygnus atratus) at Lake Omapere where the hunting or killing of black swan not in flight shall be an offence.

Central North Island Wildlife Conservancy
Reference to Description: The Central North Island Wildlife Conservancy Council Regulations 1980.