✨ Game Bird Hunting Regulations
1 MARCH
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
619
No person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Ngaroto any fixed stand, pontoon, hide or maimai except within 85 metres of the margin of the lake.
No person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Rotokauri any fixed stand, pontoon, hide or maimai on any open water of the lake.
No person may wilfully leave on the hunting ground any game bird(s) shot or parts of any game bird(s) shot.
No person may herd or drive waterfowl for the purpose of hunting or killing them.
No person may 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.
No person may possess a firearm in or on any unmoored vessel, except a rowboat, unless the firearm is dismantled or secured in a case, gunslip or other secure compartment, except when in use to retrieve wounded game.
It is now required that on public land the last tagged owner remove any maimai not tagged up for two years from the date of the last mark-up.
Closed Game Areas
All previous reference to closed game areas in the Auckland/Waikato Region are revoked. Closed game areas are:
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 Fisherman’s Road drain on the north-western side of the river in Block VII, Maioro S.D., bearing 126 degrees true to a marker on the south-eastern side of the river.
The lagoon at Okoroire Park, Matamata-Tauranga Road, Okoroire and a strip of land 20 metres in width surrounding the lagoon.
The Kaitoke Creek, Great Barrier Island, and its tributaries and an area 100 metres in width on either bank from the main road bridge over the Kaitoke Creek upstream to the southern boundary of Allotment 185, Aotea Parish, and the eastern boundary of the State Forest Reserve, the Awana Stream and an area 100 metres in width on either bank from its confluence with the sea at low-water mark to the point where the main tributary flowing across Allotment 178, Aotea Parish, meets the Awana Stream; the Saltwater Creek and an area 100 metres in width on either bank from its confluence with the sea at Oruawhara Bay to a point where the south-east boundary of Allotment N.W. 74, Aotea Parish, crosses the creek.
All D.P. 23519, being part Maungatapu Block, Blocks II and VI, Maungakawa S.D., being 15 hectares, the property of A.C. Allen, Riverdale, Piako, Morrinsville.
The township of Te Aroha.
All that area lying to the east of the Southern Motorway and known as Pahurehure Inlet.
129 hectares, being part of the Manukau Harbour known as Waimahia Creek (excluding the oxidation pond).
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2003, No 20
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2003, No 20
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