NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

North Canterbury Acclimatisation District

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

Game That May be Hunted or Killed | Duration of 1988 Season

• Grey, shoveler and mallard duck | 7 May to 3 July 1988 incl.
• Paradise shelduck (area A) | 7 May to 3 July 1988 incl.
• Paradise shelduck (area B) | 7 May to 14 August 1988 incl.
• Pukeko | 7 May to 3 July 1988 incl.
• Black swan | 7 May to 3 July 1988 incl.
• Black swan (hunting permitted only over crops and pastures in the Wairewa and Ellesmere counties east of State Highway No. 1 greater than 400 metres distant from any lake, lagoon or river) | 4 July to 28 August 1988 incl.
• Canada Goose (area C) | 7 May to 28 August 1988 incl.
• Canada Goose (area D) | 4 February to 2 April 1989 incl.
  | 7 May to 27 November 1988 incl.
• Canada Goose (area E) | 4 February to 2 April 1989 incl.
  | 3 April to 30 April 1989 incl.
• California quail | 7 May to 7 August 1988 incl.
• Cock pheasant | Close season
• Chukor | 7 May to 7 August 1988 incl.

Definition of Areas

Area A: That area east and south of State Highway No. 72 and south of Woodend Beach Road.

Area B: The remainder of the District excluding “area A”.

Area C: Wairewa and Ellesmere Counties east of State Highway No. 1.

Area D: The remainder of the District excluding “area C”.

Area E: High country: The area west and north of a line beginning at the Lake Coleridge Hydro Station in the south; along the Lyndon Road to its junction with the West Coast Road; then along the Torlesse and Puketeraki Ranges; down the Waimakariri River to its confluence with the Hurunui River; down the Hurunui River to its confluence with the Glenrae River; then up the Glenrae River to its headwaters and down Gorge Stream to its confluence with the Waiau River; down the Waiau River to the Grantham River confluence; up the Grantham River to Mt. Captain then down the Styx River to its confluence with the Clarence River; then finally down the Clarence river to the District boundary.

Daily Bag Limits

• Grey duck, 10
• Shoveler duck, 5
• Mallard duck, 25
• Paradise shelduck (area A), 2
• Paradise shelduck (area B), 10
• Grey, shoveler and mallard duck and paradise shelduck, 25 in all
• Pukeko, (north of the Ashley River), 2
• Pukeko, (south of the Ashley River), 4
• Black swan, 4
• Black swan (during period 4 July to 28 August 1988), 8
• Canada goose, no limit
• California quail, 10
• Chukor, 5

Shooting hours: 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. or any period within these hours except that during the period 1 June 1988 to 30 April 1989 incl. Canada goose may be hunted or killed 24 hours per day during the specified open season.

Decoy limit: Duck decoys, 30 per hunter. Goose decoys, no limit.

Special Conditions

1. No hut, mudhole, stand, hide, shelter, maimai, boat, or cylinder or other contrivance shall be used for the hunting or killing of game in any part of Lake Ellesmere at which the water is of a depth greater than 60 cm, excepting such areas as may be decided upon by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, provided that nothing in this special condition shall prevent any person using any vessel for the purpose of retrieving game that has been killed or wounded.

2. It shall be an offence for any person to wilfully leave on the hunting ground the bodies or parts of bodies of black swan or other game shot in the North Canterbury Acclimatisation District.