Pursuant to section 5 of the Marine Mammals Protection
Act 1978, the Department of Conservation notifies that
the following application was received from Victoria University of Wellington, on 13 June 2006 to:
? use the skull and flipper bones from a naturally dead beach cast New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) for educational purposes.
A copy of the full application can be obtained from the Department of Conservation, Wellington Conservancy, 181 Thorndon Quay, Wellington.
Any person wishing to make a submission on this application can do so by writing to the Conservator, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 5086, Wellington, within 28 days after publication of this notice.
Unless a person making a submission states to the contrary in the submission, that person will be deemed to give his/her consent to the release under the Official Information Act 1982 of all the information in the submission.