Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 5, 9 March 1892, Page 32

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1892, pages 402, 432, and 433.) Huia protected under the Animals Protection Acts.

ONSLOW, Governor

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and after the date hereof, the bird known as the huia (Heteraloclia acutirostris) shall come within the operation of the said Acts as fully and effectually as if it had been included in the Fourth Schedule to the said “ Animals Protection Act, 1880.” As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. P. A. BUCKLEY.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, Licensefee, <£c., Auckland District.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government,

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that pheasants and Californian and Australian quail may be taken or killed within the Auckland District, consisting of the Auckland Provincial District, excepting the Counties of Cook, Waiapu, Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatane, East Taupo, and Wairoa, and excepting also the islands known as the Little Barrier and the Hen and Chickens, and that portion of the Lake Road District, County of Waitemata, bounded on the north by the Wairau Creek from its mouth to the main road from Devonport to Waiwera, on the west by the

said road to its junction with the Seaview Road, on the south by that road to the sea, and on the east by the sea to the point of departure, from the second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each ; and the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Thames are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses. And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district, except in the portions thereof hereinbefore described, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, both days inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo. J. BALLANCE, In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, licensefee, dc., Haivke's Bay District.

JAMES PEENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock-pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the Hawke’s Bay District, consisting of the Counties of Hawke’s Bay, Patangata, Waipawa, and Wairoa, together with all the town districts and boroughs therein, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of ten shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on the payment of the sum of five pounds each ; and the Chief Postmaster at Napier, and the Postmasters at Waipawa, Woodville, Wairoa, Danevirke, Hastings, Mohaka, Waipukurau, Norsewood, Ormondville, Porangahau, and Wimbledon, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses. And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, both days inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo. J. BALLANCE, In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Shooting Season for Imported Game, License-fee, dc., Wellington District.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock-pheasants, Californian quail, and hares may be taken or killed within the Wellington Acclimatisation District, consisting of the Counties of Hutt, Wairarapa North, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Horowhenua, Oroua, and Manawatu, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, from the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand

eight hundred and ninety-two, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Palmerston North, Feilding, Woodville, Masterton, Carterton, Grevtown, Featherston, Lower Hutt, Foxton, and Otaki, arc hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses. And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, both days inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo. J. BALLANCE, In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Clerk of Courts appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 2nd March, 1892. HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint Sergeant Daniel Hannan to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar, at Stafford and Goldsborough, from the 24th February last, vice Constable F. O’Donovan, transferred. W. P. REEVES.