EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 18 May 1921, Page 325

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

(From New Zealand Gazette , 1921, pages 1114-1116, and 1181.) Regulations providing for the Taking or Killing of Opossums. JELLICOE, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 10th day of May, 1921. Present : The Honourable Sir F. H. D. Bell, K.C.M.G., presiding in Council. IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that 'opossums of the species Trichosunis vulpecula or of the subspecies Trichosurus fuliginosus may be taken or killed within the areas referred to in the First Schedule hereto from the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twentyone, to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, inclusive, subject to the conditions prescribed in the regulations in the Third Schedule hereto ; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby order and declare that opossums of the above species may, in accordance with the provisions of regulation twenty-one hereinafter contained, be taken or killed within the areas defined in the Second Schedule hereto, or in any registered orchard, or on any land adjoining such orchard included in the areas defined as aforesaid, and that it shall be unlawful to liberate or harbour opossums in any area defined in the- Second Schedule hereto or in any registered orchard.