OUR GAME LAWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8742, 31 March 1890, Page 2

OUR GAME LAWS.

INFORMATION FOR SPORTSMEN. With the Gazelle of March 13, tho hon. secretary o£ the Acclimatisation Society has received a digest of some provisions dealing with native and imported gauie of " The Animals Protection Act, Amendment Act 1889." Sec 4 provides, "No person shall kill, destroy, or shoot at any game or native game with anything but a shoulder gun, and no such gun must exceed size No 10 at muzzle, or bo fitted with barrels exceeding 36 inches in length. No gun shall exceed 101 bin weight. Any person offending against this provision is liable to a penalty not to exceed £10." Sec 5 enacts, "No person shall sell any native game, or take or kill any native game for the purpose of sale without previously taking out the required license. Penalty not exceeding £20.' Sec 6 states, '-No sale of native game shall take place prior to May Ist, and subsequently to August 1, in any year. If any person hold a license to sell game i.e. imported game — he is not liable to pay a second fee on taking out a license to sell native game. But both licenses must be taken out if it is intended to sell both kinds of game." Sec 7 reads, " Every holder of a license to sell game or native game shall keep a book in which he is to enter the name of every person from whom any game or native game is purchased, tbe number and description of all such game or native game purchased from each person, and the district in which such game was killed or taken. The book is to be open for inspection at all reasonable hours by any police officer or holder of a game b'ren^p " The Gazette of M:u-nh 27 notifies that cock pheasants and Californian quail may betaken or killed from May 1 to July 31. Shooting license fee £1 ; selling licenses to sell imported and native game shall be £5 eacn.