SHOOTING SEASON
REGULATIONS FOR WELLINGTON DISTRICT. OPENING LATER THAN USUAL. For the first time on record, the shooting season will open this year on a day other than May 1 or 2. In order to meet the wishes of sportsmen it has been decided to open the season at the first weekend in May, which brings the date to Saturday, May 6. Regulations governing the forthcoming shooting season were gazetted this week. In the Wellington district the season for hares, cock pheasants, Californian quail and Australian quail is from May 6 to July 31 inclusive; for grey, mallard and snoveller duck, from. May 6 to June 30 inclusive; , for black swan, from May 6 to May 19 and from June 24 to June 30 inclusive; and for pukeko, from May 6 to May 19. It is provided that no. person shall in any one day take or kill more than two head of cock pheasants; three head, of black swan; in the month of May. fifteen head in all of grey, mallard and oi’ spoonbill duck; in the month of June ten head in all of grey, mallard and or spoonbill duck, and five head of pukeko. ’ Hares are not protected in the Wairarapa district.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 6
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205SHOOTING SEASON Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 6
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