Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXVII, Issue 8, 8 April 1903, Page 94

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1903, pages 850, 851, 894, aud 899.)

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, Sc., Tauranga District. RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the Tauranga District, consisting of the Counties of Tauranga, Opotiki, and Whakatane, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And Ido further notify that licenses to take or kill 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 Postmasters at Tauranga and Opotiki are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses. And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, crested grebe, and blue —or mountain —duck, may be taken or killed within the abovementioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, both days inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three. C. H. MILLS.

Police Gaoler appointed. Department of Justice (Prisons Branch), Wellington, 14th March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Percy Frederick Carlyon to be Police Gaoler at Gisborne, vice George Henry Harris, transferred. JAS. McGOWAN.

Unlawful to take Oysters in Northern Subdivision of Northern Oyster-fishery. RANFURLY, Governor. WHEREAS it is, amongst other things, enacted by section fifteen of “ The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” that the Governor may from time to time declare any bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony to be an oysterfishery, and prescribe the subdivisions thereof wherein it shall be lawful and unlawful to take oysters : And whereas, by Warrant under the hand of the Governor dated the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month, the Northern Oystery-fishery was constituted and divided into subdivisions : And whereas, by Warrant dated the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of the same month, it was declared lawful to take oysters in the Northern Subdivision of the said oyster-fishery, and it is now desirable that it should be declared unlawful to take oysters in such subdivision: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the herein-before-recited power and authority, doth hereby declare and prescribe that it shall, on and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three, he unlawful to take oysters in the Northern Subdivision of the Northern Oysterfishery. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three. JAS. McGOWAN. Note.—The Northern Subdivision of the Northern Oysterfishery extends from North Cape to high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 3, Mataka, near Cape Wiwiki.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 28th March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap point

Constable William George Grey to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Rangitikei; Constable Patrick McCormack to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Ellesmere; and Constable Thomas Griffith to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Selwyn, vice R. Colthart. JAS. McGOWAN.

Clerk of Magistrate’s Court appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 31st March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Alfred Hammond to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Featherston, from the 6th March instant, vice Constable P. F. Carlyon, transferred. JAS. McGOWAN.

Clerk of Court appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, Ist April, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Thomas Griffith to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at South Rakaia, from the 26th day of March, 1903, vice Constable J. Stanley, retired. JAS. McGOWAN.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 26th March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant Francis Cullen to be an Inspector under “ The Factories Act, 1901.” JAS. McGOWAN, For Minister of Labour.

Police Gaoler appointed. Department of Justice (Prisons Branch), Wellington, 26th March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant Robert Darby to be Police Gaoler at Thames, vice Sergeant Andrew Clarke. JAS. McGOWAN.

Licensing Officer under “ The Arms Act, 1880,” appointed. Police Department, Wellington, 26th March, 1903. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant Robert Darby, of the New Zealand Police Force, to be a licensing officer under “ The Arms Act, 1880.” JAS. McGOWAN.