THE SHOOTING SEASON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 99, 26 April 1912, Page 6

THE SHOOTING SEASON.

frr~‘ ’ “ GAME RESTRICTIONS. (Per Proes AsaocKtiaa ) Wellington, April 25. The shooting season has boon fixed from May Ito July 31. The class of game to be shot in various localities is as follows :—Ashburton district : Native game, except paradise duck, which may only be shot from May Ito May 14. Auckland: Imported and native game. Bay of Islands: Imported and native game. Bailer: Imported and native game. Canterbury ; Imported and native game, except paradise duck, which may be shot only from May 1 to May 14. Coromandel: Imported and native game. East Coast: Imported and native game. Feilding: Imported and native game. Grey; Imported game. Ha went: Imported and native game. Hobson: Imported and native game, inangahua: Native game. Lake County: Imported and native game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May Ito May 14. MangonuiWhangaroa: Imported and native game” Marlborough: Imported and native game. Nelson; Imported and native game. Opotiki: Imported and native game. Otago: Impoi ced ant. native game, except black teal; and paradise duck may be shot from May Ito May 14. Rotorua: Imported and native game. Southland: Imported and native game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May Ito May 14. South Canterbury: Native game, except paradise duck, which may bo only shot from May Ito May 14. Stratford: Imported and native game. Taranaki: Imported and native game. Tauranga: Imported and native game. Wairaarnio, Imported and native game. WaitakiWaimate (Waimate branch): Native game, except paradise duck, widen may be only shot from May 1 to May 14. Waitaki- Waimate (Waitaki branch): Native game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May 1 ‘to May 14. Wanganui: Imported and native game. Westland : Native game. Whangarei: Imported and native game. Imported and native game shall not be killed on lands set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for their preservation. The number of nalive game that may bo killed by any one person an any one day is restricted to twenty-five head in all. The following brids, indigenous to New Zealand, are not now deemed to bo/protected: Pukaki, teal, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, wild geese, paradise duck. Wellington, Last Night.

The Gazette to-night contains a notice that holders of shooting licenses may from May 1 to July 31 take or kill, by hunting or shooting only, not more than thirty opossums within the acclimatisation district to which the license relates. .No sales or .opossum skins or bodies will bo permitted.