Shooting Season for Imported Game, License Fee, &c., Nelson Acclimatization District.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 6 April 1921, Page 219

Shooting Season for Imported Game, License Fee, &c., Nelson 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— be killed within the Nelson Acclimatization District, comprising the Waimea, Takaka, Collingwood, and Murchison Counties, and part of the Inangahua County of present date, bounded towards the north-west and north-east generally by the Tasman Sea, Golden Bay, and Tasman Bay from Kohaihai Bluff, in Block XIII, Whakapoai Survey District, to a point on the shore of Croisilles Harbour due west, of the westernmost point of Elaine or Brown’s Bay; thence towards the north by a right line running due' east to said westernmost point of that bay and by southern shore of that bay to its south head; thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to Trig. Station Y (boundary trig.), and by a line along the summit of the range over Mount McLaren, Editor Peak, Mount Duppa, and Saddle Hill to the source of the Heringa Stream; thence by a line down the middle of that stream to its confluence with the Pelorus River ; thence by a line up the middle of the Pelorus River to its source near Red

Hills ; thence by a right line to the summit; thence by a line along the summit of the range over Red Hills, Mount Rintoul, and Bush Cone to the summit of Ward’s Pass; thence by a right line to Trig. Station Top 2 (Mangatawai); thence by a line along the summit of St. Arnaud Range and the summit of the Spencer Mountains; thence towards the south-west by a line along the summit of the southern watershed of the Maruia River to Mount Haast; thence by a line due north to the right bank of the Inangahua River, and along that bank to and along the left bank of the Buffer River to the mouth of the Eight-mile or Boundary Creek ; thence by a line up a leading spur on the western side of said Boundary Creek to Bald Hill, and by a line along the summit of Lyell Range and along the summit of a range over Mount Luna to Mount Arthur ; thence towards the south-west by a line along the summit of the western ranges over Mount Peel and Mount Snowdon to Mount Cobb ; thence towards the south-east by a line along the summit of range over Mount Domett and down a leading spur to the Tasman Sea at Kohaihai Bluff, the place of commencement (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 quail that- may be killed by any one person in any one day to forty. And I do 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 Nelson, and the Postmasters at Motueka, Kohatu, Wakefield, Murchison, and Reefton are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses to kill imported game.

SCHEDULE. Areas wherein Imported Game shall not be killed. 1. Certain area in Gouland Downs (see Gazette No. 66, of the 6th May, 1915, page 1690). • 2. 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 14th day of February, 1921. G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Internal Affairs.