EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 26 March 1913, Page 192

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1913, pages 898, 905, and 906.)

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago. LIVERPOOL, Governor. IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Otago Acclimatization District, comprising the Counties of Bruce, Clutha, Maniototo, Peninsula, Taieri, Tuapeka, Vincent, Waihemo, and Waikouaiti, and part of the County of Southland, and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.

REGULATIONS. 1. Red-deeb stags may be taken or killed within the Otago Acclimatization Disrrict from the Ist day of April, 1918, to the 20th day of May, 1913 (both days inclusive). 2. Fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the said district from the 10th day of April, 1913, to the 15th day of May, 1913 (both days inclusive). 3. Licenses to take or kill red-deer stags may be issued by the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society, on payment of a license fee of £4, and licenses to take or kill fallow-deer bucks may be issued by the said Chief Postmaster, upon a like recommendation, on payment of a license fee of £2; such licenses to be issued in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations. 4. No licensee shall take or kill more than four red-deer stags or two fallow-deer bucks, and no red-deer stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points, and no fallow-deer buck shall be killed carrying antlers with less than fourteen points (on a palmate of less than 4 in.). Ball cartridge only to be used. 5. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date. 6. No doe, hind, or fawn shall be taken or killed on any pretext whatever; and no licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himseif or any attendant he may have with him. 7. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

8. Regulations as to deer “ tags,” per New Zealand Gazette No. 40, Vol. I, of 20th May, 1909, page 1408, shall be strictly adhered to by each licensee, who, in addition thereto, shall return all unused “ tags ” to the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society immediately he has finished stalking for the season for which such “tags” have been issued. 9. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £2O. Schedule. No. License to take or kill Game (Deer). , of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorized to take or kill deer (bucks or stags), of not less than ten points for red deer stags, and fourteen points on palmate of not less than 4 in. for fallow-deer bucks, within the Otago Acclimatization District, upon Block No. , from the day of , 1913, to the day of , 1913 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and all regulations thereunder in force within the said district. Dated at this day of , 1913. Chief Postmaster. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. H. D. BELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Inspector of Clubs appointed. Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 13th March, 1913. T T is hereby notified that Arthur Hobbins Wright has been appointed under the Licensing Act, 1908, to be an Inspector of Clubs for the purpose of inspecting and reporting upon chartered clubs as defined by the said Licensing Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL, Minister of Internal Affairs

Clerk of Magistrate's Court appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 19th March, 1913. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable David Burnett Murray to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Carterton, on and from the 21st day of February, 1913, vice Constable H. C. Carmody, deceased. A. L. HERDMAN, Minister of Justice.