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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24875, 22 April 1944, Page 4

SHOOTING SEASON A shooting season has been gazetted in the Auckland district train May t> ;to .May 21 (both days inclusive) tor ! ducks, swan and pukeko, and from 113* | 6 to June 30 (both days mcluare) for cock pheasants, Australian quail. The license fee is & except tor those receiving age °J miners' benefits who used pay £1 0I "-: Regulations regarding bag limitsi ana decoys are set out on the licence. The time for pegging stands" for duck shooting is fixed i 10 a.m. on April 30. Licences haven been sent to agents in the co ?*j, - districts and to most Money uro offices. , » j .„ a The Government has released box of 25 cartridges for each bee holder and supplies have been sent one or more dealers in the bjrger throughout the district. Ihe c ° n P®; attached to each licence has to be i rendered to the dealer \ _ cartridges-—the price fixed by *" e *, Tribunal being 8s per box. Iu aacuti.. t to encourage sportsmen to destroy miu. such as rabbits, hawks, s ' weasels and ferrets, the GoYernfflj* has released approximately a iuj* box of cartridges for eacn hce holder, and tliese will be avails * the same dealers. Thepnce c ot q , - cartridges lias been fixed at 8s y P® box. The vermin issue and the fl j. issue aggregate two boxes both be purchased on surrender o , pon. In connection with the hrst ; , cartridges the Society wish to pomt that these are in five difterent shot, Nos. 3, 4, 5. 6, S and thbt t { allocation was made on the mw , the 1943 sales of shooting licences that each Society throughout Dominion has had to take its fair P portion of each size. onjjv cartridges available and no for amendment of sizes can tai Tho cartridges have been sent to centre on the basis of sales o in 1943 at that centre. This sales will not be the same ge . year in each centre and local meats will have to be made at w notice to send any surplus t > - 0 centre to make up a another centre. Licence-holders their own interests co-operate y end, and should ascertain if their dealer can supp-j, i" sll iv the dealer may endeavour to m»Ke able re-arrangements. ■ Govern* The Council regret that the t ment lias been able to • e |f vision for landowners shoot ng Tfce own properties without a at jthof" purchase of a licence is the - ity for the issue of cartridges- .

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