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

JELLICOE, Governor-General. IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, 1,. 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 Marlborough Acclimatization District, comprising all that area in the Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Mount Humboldt in the Spenser Mountains and proceeding thence north-easterly along that range and the St. Arnaud Range to the Waimea County; thence following the south-eastern boundary of the said Waimea County as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1917, page 4194, to the shore of Croisilles Harbour ; thence following the sea-coast generally easterly and southerly to the mouth of the Conway River, and up that river to its source at Palmer Saddle; thence along a right line to Barefell Pass and a right line westerly to Mount Humboldt, the point of commencement; including therein D’Urville Island and all islands adjacent to the coast; 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 imported game that may be killed by any one person in any one day to not more than twenty-five head in all. And Ido 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 the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim, and the Postmasters at Havelock, Canvastown, Mahakipawa, Renwicktown, Timatanga, Kekeranga, Picton, Nydia Bay, Seddon, Spring Creek, Ward, and Wairau Valley, 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, and black swanmay 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 native game (except paradise duck) that

may be killed by any one person in any one day to twelve head in all, and the number of paradise duck in any one day to five bead.

SCHEDULE. Areas wherein Imported and Native Game shall NOT BE KILLED. All that area in the Marlborough Land District bounded towards the north-east by the ooean from the north-western end of the Boulder Bank, at the mouth of the Wairau River, to the south-eastern end of the Boulder Bank, at the northeastern corner of Section No. 10 of Block 11, Omaka, situate in Block 111, Clifford Bay Survey District; thence towards the south generally by that section, Section 8 of Block I, Wakefield Downs, and Section 9 of Block 11, Omaka, both of which sections are situate in Block 111, Clifford Bay Survey District, to a point five chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon ; thence by a line parallel to and five chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon through Sections 9 of Block 11, Omaka, and 7 of Block I, Wakefield Downs, both of which sections are situate in Block 111, Clifford Bay Survey District, to the channel between the Big Lagoon and Chandler’s Lagoon ; thence towards the west generally by the said channel to a small lagoon in Section 5, Opawa, situate in Block I, Clifford Bay Survey District; thence by the western side of that lagoon and a line parallel to and five chains distant from high-water mark of the Big Lagoon through Section 5 Opawa, public road, Crown land, and Section 3 Opawa, all of which sections are situate in Block I, Clifford Bay Survey District aforesaid, to the channel in Section 3 Opawa, situate in Block I, Clifford Bay Survey District; thence by that channel through Sections 3, 4,6, 9 Opawa, situate in Block I, Clifford Bay Survey District aforesaid, and a line parallel to and five chains distant from high-water mark, through Section 9 Opawa, public road, 7 Opawa, public road, 8 Opawa, all of which are situate in Block I, Clifford Bay Survey District aforesaid, to the southern side of the estuary of the Wairau River ; thence by a right line across the said estuary in the direction of the Pilot-station to the west side of the mouth of the Wairau River; and thence by a right line to the north-western end of the Boulder Bank, the place of commencement. Also all that area in the Marlborough Land District known as Lake Grassmere, and-the area within a line running parallel to and five chains distant from the margin of the said lake. Also all that area in the Marlborough Land District, situated in Blocks VI and VII, Cape Campbell Survey District, being the lake known as Lake Elterwater, and the area surrounding the said lake included within a line running parallel to and forty chains distant from the margin of the said Lake Elterwater. Also certain area in Ship’s Cove described in New Zealand Gazette No. 24, of the 27th March, 1913. Also Big Lagoon at Vernon. Also all lands notified or set apart as sanotuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game. As witness the hand of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, this Ist day of March, 1921. G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Internal Affairs.