Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 4, 16 February 1897, Page 35

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1897, pages 353, 354, 355, 433, and 436.)

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, dx., Marlborough District. GLASGOW, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, comprising the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, from Saturday, the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, to Tuesday, the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, 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 no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six bucks or stags, and that the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Sale of Deer in Wellington Acclimatisation District prohibited

GLASGOW, Governor. IN exercise of the power and authority conferred by section five of “ The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1895,” and pursuant to a recommendation made in this behalf by the Colonial Secretary of the Colony, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that no deer of any kind, or any portion thereof respectively, shall be sold within the Wellington Acclimatisation District, as defined in the Schedule hereto, for a period of three years, commencing from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE

All those parts of the Colony of New Zealand which are comprised within the Counties of Hutt, Horowhenua, Wairarapa South, Wairarapa North, Pahiatua, Manawatu, Kiwitea, Pohangina, and Oroua, as such counties are respectively constituted or existing under “ The Counties Act, 1886 ”; together with the Boroughs of Carterton, Feilding, Foxton, Greytown, Karori, Lower Hutt, Masterton, Melrose, Onslow, Palmerston North, Petone, and City of Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, dc., Nelson

District. GLASGOW, Governor

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red-deer stags and fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the Nelson District, comprising the Counties of Waimea, Buller, and Collingwood, from the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred aud ninety-seven, to the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, 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 no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six bucks or stags; and the Chief Postmaster at Nelson and the Postmaster at Westport are hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor this third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. J. CARROLL, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Tauranga Police Gaol ceased to be a Police Gaol (1.5.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Prisons Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police gaol shall no longer be a prison or police gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Proclamation, or from and after any later day fixed in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police gaol shall cease to be a prison or police gaol: Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the aboverecited power and authority, do hereby declare that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the police gaol at Tauranga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, shall cease to be a police gaol. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. T. THOMPSON.

God save the Queen !

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed at Greymouth. Marine Department, Wellington, Bth February, 1897. HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority vested by subsection (2) of section 6 of “ The Seafisheries Act, 1894,” to appoint Edward Sterling White, of Greymouth, Police Sergeant, to be an Inspector of Seafishing under the above-mentioned Act. WM. HALL-JONES, Minister of Marine.