SEPT. 9.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1293

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations shall come into force on the
   first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
   eighty.

2. Any holder of a license, as hereinafter men-
   tioned, may fish with rod and line for trout in the
   Maitai and Waimea Rivers, and their affluents, from
   the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred
   and eighty, until the thirty-first day of March, one
   thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, but only
   between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and
   ten o'clock in the evening.

3. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the said
   waters will be issued under the hand of the Secretary
   of the Nelson Acclimatization Society, and for every
   license a fee of ten shillings will be charged.

4. No license shall authorize any person other than
   the person named therein to fish, and that only with
   rod and line.

5. Any person fishing without a license, or any
   person who shall on demand of any person holding
   and showing a license, or on the demand of any police
   officer or constable, fail to produce and show to such
   person, police officer, or constable his license, shall be
   liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length
   taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be im-
   mediately returned alive to the water; and any person
   convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable
   to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds sterling,
   and his license shall thereupon become void.

7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use
   any net or other engine, instrument, or device for
   taking fish in any river or stream within the Provin-
   cial District of Nelson; and all persons offending
   against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding fifty pounds.

8. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or
   allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or
   stream in the said Provincial District of Nelson, any
   dynamite or other explosive substance, or any matter
   or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty
   not exceeding one hundred pounds.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this second day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

Conditions for Trout Fishing in Otago.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in him by "The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,"
His Excellency the Governor doth hereby make the
following regulations for the District of Otago :-

1. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and
   line for trout in all the streams and lakes within and
   forming the boundaries of the following district
   (except the Water of Leith), from the first day of
   October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, to
   the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight
   hundred and eighty-one, both inclusive, viz. :-

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded on the East and South by the ocean, from
Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura River; on
the West, South-west, and South by the Mataura
River and the Counties of Southland and Wallace;
on the North-west by the ocean; and on the North,
North-west, and North-east by the Counties of
Westland and Waitaki.

2. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and
   line for trout in the Water of Leith, in the months
   of November, December, January, and February
   next ensuing.

3. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the above-
   described district will be issued under the hand of
   the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society
   at Dunedin, and for every license a fee of twenty
   shillings will be charged.

4. No license shall authorize any person other
   than the person named therein to fish, and that only
   with rod and line.

5. Any person fishing without a license, or any
   person who shall on demand of any person holding
   and showing a license, or on the demand of any
   ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce
   and show to such person, ranger, police officer, or
   constable his license, shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding twenty pounds.

6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length
   taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be
   immediately returned alive to the water; and any
   person convicted of infringing this regulation shall
   be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds
   sterling, and his license shall thereupon become void.

7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use
   any net or other engine, instrument, or device for
   taking fish in any lake, river, or stream within the
   above-described district, and all persons offending
   against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty
   not exceeding fifty pounds.

8. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or
   allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any lake,
   river, or stream in the said district, any dynamite or
   other explosive substance, or any matter or liquid
   deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding one hundred pounds.

9. These regulations shall come into force as from
   the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred
   and eighty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this third day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

Eparaima Highway District abolished, County of
Waipawa.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers and
authorities vested in me by an Ordinance of the
Province of Hawke's Bay, intituled "The Highways
Act, 1871," and by "The Abolition of Provinces
Act, 1875," I, Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the highway district constituted under the
said "Highways Act, 1871," and named the Eparaima
Highway District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this third day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

Wallingford Highway District constituted, County of
Waipawa.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers and
authorities vested in me by an Ordinance of the
Province of Hawke's Bay, intituled "The Highways
Act, 1871," and by "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
create that portion of the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay described in the Schedule hereto a
highway district, under the said "Highways Act,
1871," by the distinctive name of the Wallingford