SHOOTING SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 68, 22 March 1927, Page 8

SHOOTING SEASON.

COMMENCES ON MAY 2. imported and native game. PUKEKO ON OPEN LIST. As the first day of May will fall on a Sunday this year, the shooting season will open on May 2 and extend to Julv 31. . The restrictions in regard to the taking or killing of imported or native game are similar to last season, and the taking out of a game license is necessarv, except in the case of an occupier of a proor any son or daughter of such occupier, who may take or kill without ice n se on such property during an open ~-ri>° n ' furtiler > the occupier may in writing appoint one other 'person to shoot in his stead. in S th? ral the acclima tisation societies ~ Fovince have put pukeko on the A™? the month of °*lv. trict , kland acclimatisation di'sconLS t sho ° tln ? of these birds will be Piako H ? v of Waipa and lako during that period. 110 bird f ecified iD the various formp ma * V taken or shot - A s in " <**»".>■ The schedules are as follow.-— ni^ UC^^ nC l'~^' ock Pheasants, Califorpukeko wr / al , ian quail * black swan > P £eko, grey duck, spoonbill duck. fornian 0f sland -—Cpck pheasants, Caliblack tea? m quai1 ' £ re . v duck., > Pukeko and black swan. sants n i° l^ i ~i Whangaroa -"~ Cock I'heaf , ' us tralian quail, grev duck black swa'n^P 00 1' d uc k, shoveller duck', black California!! WhanSrel -^oi tea '" black swan " nian and r Peasants, Califprblack teal T"' gre - V du " ck - Coromandel^ k blacl l SWanfornian Qua i Pheasants. Callback swan B} ' U0k ' black teal -- nia T n aU ani g pheasants - Oaliforpukeko, black swan? duck ' Peasants, Californian tea l> black swan?" 3 du ° k ' black v irg°bYa U n a 'TS Ck A Phea? f nts)Californian ' duck, black teoi trallan quail, grey *°*en plover,