✨ Game Bird Hunting Regulations
9 MARCH 2007 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 28 735
Cock Pheasant
All areas, excluding Registered
Game Preserves 5
Pheasants, both sexes
Registered Game Preserves No limit
Red Legged Partridge
Registered Game Preserves No limit
Definition of Areas
The following descriptions refer to Local Authority Boundaries described on the Infomap 242B-2 Department of Survey and Land Information (now Land Information New Zealand) for the Eastern Region Fish and Game Council region.
Area A1: Tauranga District, Western Bay of Plenty District, that part of the South Waikato District within the Eastern Fish and Game region and east of State Highway 1, Rotorua District, Kawerau District, Whakatane District and Opotiki District.
Area A2: Those parts of the South Waikato District west of State Highway 1 within the Eastern Fish and Game region, Taupo District and Ruapehu District, which lie within the Eastern Fish and Game region.
Area B1: Gisborne District.
Area B2: That part of Wairoa District within the Eastern Fish and Game region.
Shooting Hours
6.15am to 6.15pm, except that in Areas A1, A2 and B1 from 16 July 2007 to 26 August 2007 and 23 and 24 February 2008, Canada geese may be hunted or killed 24 hours per day. For Area B2, Canada geese may only be hunted 24 hours from 23 and 24 February 2008 inclusive. Paradise Shelduck may be hunted 24 hours per day from 23 and 24 February 2008 inclusive in that area north of the Uawa River, Tolaga Bay.
Decoy Limit
No limit.
Magazine Capacity
Unpinned magazine shotguns to manufacturer’s specifications may be used.
Maimais
No maimai shall impede the use of navigable channels in the Tauranga Harbour, Ohiwa Harbour, Little Waihi Estuary, Lake Aniwhenua and Lake Taupo.
Maimais erected in the Little Waihi Estuary, Lake Aniwhenua, Ohiwa Harbour, Stump and Waihi bays of Lake Taupo must be dismantled and removed within 2 weeks of the close of the season (ie by 9 September 2007).
Registered Game Preserves (pheasant):
(i) Titoki Hereford Stud: The property situated along a 4 kilometre road frontage, at the top of Tikitere Hill from above Hell’s Gate to opposite Moose Lodge entrance. Bounded by Fletcher Challenge Tikitere Forest and Okataina Scenic Reserve.
(ii) Benner’s Brothers Farm: Located 8 kilometres up the Bush Road from Pongokawa. Bounded by Pongakawa River and Rotoehu Forest and Bush Road.
(iii) Equine Farm: Located approximately 6 kilometres in a north-west direction from Lake Rotoehu with Rotoehu Road and Fletcher Challenge’s Rotoehu Forest on the main boundaries. Property is made up of 283 hectares being entirely enclosed within deer fence.
(iv) Treetops: Located Hearoa Road, Horohoro, being some 470 hectares with frontage to Great West Road, and bounded by the Horohoro Bluffs, the extremities of the property being enclosed within deer fencing.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2007, No 28
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2007, No 28
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