900 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 30 13 MARCH 2013

3 Decoy Limit
No limit, except on Lake Waikare – a total decoy limit of 50 decoys per stand and no decoys shall be placed within 50 metres of those placed by another hunter.

4 Special Conditions

4.1 From 4 May to 2 June 2013 inclusive, no person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Waikare, any drifting or temporarily moored floating stand or any stand, hide or maimai which is permanently fixed to the lake bed except within 180 metres of the outer margin of the lake or the shoreline of Motu Nuia Island (Grape Island).

4.2 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.

4.3 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.

4.4 No person may wilfully leave on the hunting ground any game bird(s) shot or parts of any game birds shot.

4.5 No person may herd or drive waterfowl for the purpose of hunting or killing them.

4.6 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.

4.7 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.

4.8 On public land, the last tagged owner must remove any maimai not tagged up for 2 years from the date of the last mark-up.

4.9 No person may hunt or kill game(^{10}) of the family Anatidae (waterfowl) in all the area contained within a distance of 100 metres from the margins of any waters together with the area covered by those waters where food has been cast, thrown, placed or planted any time during the period 4 April to 30 June 2013 inclusive.

4.10 A person may hunt or kill game birds, as specified, within the Auckland/Waikato region with any magazine shotgun of a calibre 10 gauge or less that either:
a) has a magazine of any type adjusted with a one piece filler which is incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, or
b) is pinned in accordance with Regulations made under this Act;
and is capable of holding no more than three shells.

5 Closed Game Areas

5.1 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 Survey District, bearing 126 degrees true to a marker on the south-eastern side of the river.

5.2 The Kaitoke Creek and it tributaries, on Great Barrier Island, 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 Great Barrier Forest Conservation Area, 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 NW 74 Aotea Parish crosses the creek.

(^{10})Section 7 of the Wildlife Act 1953