EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 24, 16 June 1909, Page 249

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1909, page 1553.) Amended Notification respecting Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, Wellington Acclimatisation District. PLUNKET, Governor. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend, in manner hereinafter provided, the notification made under “ The Animals Protection Act, 1908,” dated the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the Neiv Zealand Gazette of the fifth day of the said month of April: Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following native game—viz., pukeko—may, from the date of the publication hereof to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine, be killed in the area described in the Schedule hereto, the said area being part of the Wellington Acclimatisation District.

SCHEDULE. Being an area contained within a line starting from Shannon on the Manawatu Railway line ; thence following the line to Palmerston North; thence by a right line to Kairanga; thence to Glen Oroua, and thence to Carnarvon and the sea ; thence along the sea boundary to the south bank of the Manawatu River ; thence following the river to the bridge on the Foxton and Shannon Road ; and thence to Shannon. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine. D. BUDDO, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Land at Foxton, Wellington Land District, to he a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game. PLUNKET, Governor,

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area.

SCHEDULE. All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement about 1,500 acres, situated in Block 111, Moutere Survey District, and Block IX, Mount Robinson Survey District. Bounded towards the east by the FoxtonLevin Road from the southernmost corner of Oturoa No. 3 Block to the southernmost corner of Wawa Block; thence towards the south-west by Subdivision No. 1 of ManawatuKukutauaki No. 7d Block to its northernmost corner; thence towards the south-east by Subdivisions Nos. 1 and 2 of Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 7d Block to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned subdivision; thence towards the north-east by that subdivision for a distance of 70 chains ; thence again towards the south-east by a right line at right angles to the south-western boundary of the said Subdivision No. 2, running through Subdivisions Nos. 3,4, and 5, to the north-eastern boundary of Ngawhakahiamoe Block ; thence towards the south-west and south-east by the lastmentioned block to its westernmost corner; thence towards the north by Waitarere No. 1 Block to its north-western corner; thence again towards the south-east by the lastmentioned block and Subdivision 2b of Manawatu-Kuku-tauaki No. 7d Block to the north-eastern corner of Kahukura Block ; thence again towards the south-west by the said Kahukura Block for a distance of 50 chains ; thence towards the north-west by a right line to a point on the north-eastern boundary of Whirokino No. 2 Block, distant 70 chains from the easternmost corner of that block, and the said right line produced to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Totara No. 3 Block ; thence again towards the north-east by a right line to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned block ; and thence by that block and Oturoa No. 3 Block to the Foxton-Levin Road, the place of commencement. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine. D. BUDDO, Minister of Internal Affairs.