✨ Game Hunting Regulations
852 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 36
(a) Three shot
From 2 May 1998 and for the duration of the 1998 game season, persons[^6] may hunt or kill all game bird within the following Fish & Game regions with any shotgun of a calibre 12 gauge or less having a magazine of any type adjusted in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and capable of holding no more than two shells:
Fish and Game Regions:
Auckland/Waikato
Hawke’s Bay
(b) Five shot - Canada goose only - Auckland/Waikato
Persons[^7] may hunt or kill Canada geese within the Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game region with any shotgun of a calibre 12 gauge or less having a magazine of any type adjusted in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and capable of holding no more than four shells, during the following periods:
7.00pm 8 May 1998 to 11.45pm 14 May 1998
7.00pm 6 June 1998 to 11.45pm 12 June 1998
7.00pm 4 July 1998 to 11.45pm 22 July 1998 (subject to public notification of this season)
(c) Five shot - 10 gauge - Canada goose only - Auckland/Waikato
Persons[^8] may hunt or kill Canada geese within the Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game region with any shotgun of a calibre 10 gauge or less having a magazine of any type adjusted in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and capable of holding no more than four shells, during the following period:
7.00pm 4 July 1998 to 11.45pm 22 July 1998 (subject to public notification of this season)
(d) Two shot - all game - Eastern
From 2 May 1998 persons[^7] may hunt or kill all game bird within the Eastern Fish and Game region with any shotgun of a calibre 12 gauge or less having a magazine of any type adjusted in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and capable of holding no more than two shells, provided that a shotgun with its magazine so adjusted will at any time hold no more than two shells.
(Explanatory note: While the magazine adjustment enables a magazine shotgun to hold three shells, no person can have three shells in the shotgun at any one time.)
Camouflaged Rowboats
Persons[^9] may hunt or kill game within the following Fish and Game Regions, from unmoored camouflaged rowboats, subject to the conditions specified below.
Fish and Game Regions of:
Northland
Nelson/Marlborough
Otago
[^6]: 18(1)(c)(iii) Wildlife Act 1953
[^7]: 18(1)(c)(iii) Wildlife Act 1953
[^8]: 18(1)(c)(iii) Wildlife Act 1953
[^9]: 18(1)(f)(vi) Wildlife Act 1953
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