Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Lakes District Acclimatization District.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 6 April 1921, Page 218

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Lakes District Acclimatization District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General. IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., Californian quail—may be killed within the Lakes District Acclimatization District, comprising the County of Lake (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, both days inclusive. And I do hereby further notify that licenses to kill such imported game within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and that the Postmasters at Queenstown, Arrowtown, Kingstown, and Pembroke are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game. And I do further notify that the following native game—viz., paradise duck, grey duck, pukeko, and black swan—may be killed within the above-mentioned district (except in the areas mentioned in the Schedule hereto) from the second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, both days inclusive; and I do hereby restrict the number of such native game that may be killed by any one person in any one day to not more than twenty-five head in all.

SCHEDULE. Abbas wherein Imported and Native Game shall NOT BE KILLED. 1. The lake known as Lake Hayes, near Queenstown, Wakatipu, and an area half a mile in width surrounding the said lake. 2. All that part of the Fiordland National Park which is in the County of Lake. 3. All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 4,400 acres, more or less, being part of the waters of Lake Wakatipu and land in the vicinity. 4. Part of Lake Wanaka (see New Zealand Gazette No. 55, of the 28th May, 1914, page 2213). 5. All lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game. As witness the hand of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, this 24th day of March, 1921. WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Internal Affairs.