THE SHOOTING SEASON

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 254, 26 April 1912, Page 5

THE SHOOTING SEASON

GAME RESTRICTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. Tlio shooting season has been fixed from May 1 to July 31. The class of game to bo shot in various localities is as follows:—Ashburton district: Native game, except paradise duck, which may only be shot from May 1 to May 14. Auckland: Imported and native game. Bay of Islands: Imported and native game. Buller: Imported and native game. Canterbury: Imported and native game, except paradise duck, which may bo shot only from May 1 to May 14. Coromandei: Imported and native game. East Coast: Imported and native game. Feilding: Imported and native game. Grey: Imported game. Hawera: Imported and native game. Hawke's Bay: Imported and native game. Hobson: Imported and native game. Inangahua: Native game. Lake, County: Imported and native, game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May 1 to May 14. Mangonui-Whangaroa; Imported and native game. Marlborough: Imported and native game. Nelson: Imported and natiw game. Opotiki: Imported and native game. Otago: Imported and native game, except black teal; and paradise duck may be shot from May 1 to May 14. Rotorua: Imported and native game. Southland: Imported and native game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May 1 to May 14. South Canterbury: Native game, except paradise duck, which maybe only shot from May 1 to May 14. Stratford: Imported and native game. Taranaki: Imported and native game. Tauranga: Imported and native game. Waimarino: Imported and native game. Waitaki-Waimate (Waimate branch): Native, game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May 1 to May 14. Waitaki-Waimate (Waitaki branch): Native game, except paradise duck, which may be only shot from May 1 to May 14. Wanganiii: Imported and native game. Westland: Native game. Whangarei: Imported and native game. Imported and native game shall not be killed on lands set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for their preservation. The number of native game that may be killed by any one person in any one day is restricted to twenty-five head in all. The following birds, indigenous to New Zealand, are not now deemed to be protected: Pukaki, teal, grey duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, wild geese, paradisc duck. Wellington, Last Night. The. Gazette to-night contains a notice that holders of shooting licenses may from May 1 to ,Tuly 31 take or kill, by hunting or shooting only, not more than thirty opossums within the acclimatisation district to which the license relates. No sales of opossum skins or bodies will bo permitted.