NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.

VOL. XXII. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1875. No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The Protection of Animals Act, 1873," it is enacted that no Native Game shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed in any part of the Province, except during such months as may from time to time be proclaimed by the Superintendent, not exceeding four consecutive months, in respect of each bird mentioned in the fifth Schedule.

Now therefore, I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby proclaim and appoint that it shall be lawful to hunt, shoot, take, or kill any of the birds enumerated in the said fifth Schedule of the "Protection of Animals Act, 1873," in the Province of Wellington, during the months of April, May, June, and July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this Thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Public Notice.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1875.

THE Birds enumerated in the fifth Schedule of the "Protection of Animals Act, 1873," and referred to in the foregoing proclamation, are as follows:

Wild Duck of any species Tui
Bittern Native Pigeon
Pied Stilt Plover Teal
Wild Geese Black Stilt Plover
Dotterell Curlew
Quail

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Commissioner.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th March 1875.

NOTICE has been received by His Honor the Superintendent that Mr. ROBERT JOHN KNOX was elected a Commissioner of the Lethbridge Local Board on the 17th March, in the place of Mr. E. Hales, resigned.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Warrant.

I, WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, do hereby appoint GEORGE HENRY WELCH to be Toll Collector at the Featherston Toll Gate, Wairarapa.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 25th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Appointment.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th March, 1875.

NOTICE has been received at this Office, under the hand of the Secretary of the Wanganui and Waitotara Highway Board, that Mr. R. S. Low has been appointed Assessor for that Highway District.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Notice.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1875.

NOTICE has been received by His Honor the Superintendent under the hand of H. C. Field, Presiding Officer, that MR. ROBERT TAYLOR DAVIS, was elected on the 15th inst., a Warden for Ward No. 7, of the Wanganui and Waitotara Highway District, in the place of Mr. William Finnimore, resigned.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.