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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, to the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, inclusive, between the hours of four a.m. and ten p.m. only, but no such license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

3. No person shall fish for, take, catch, or kill, or have in his possession, or attempt to fish for, take, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, any of the salmonidæ or trout, except during the above-mentioned period.

4. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with one rod and line only, and with the following baits: natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow, silveries, bullies, grasshoppers, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, and worms.

5. No person shall use any other bait, or any method, device, or contrivance of any sort or kind whatever, for the purpose of fishing for, taking, catching, or killing trout, except a rod and line, and a landing net, or gaff, for fish taken with rod and line.

6. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, nor shall any of the baits above mentioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

7. No person shall fish without a license, and every person fishing shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, member of the Acclimatisation Society, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, member, constable, or person his license and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout.

8. Every trout not exceeding eight inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, in any of the said waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

10. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon-parr, or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever; and any of the above-named taken by accident or otherwise shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ or trout, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ or trout in order to make sale of the same, without permission in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the Southland Acclimatisation Society.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ or trout between the twelfth day of April and the thirtieth day of September in each year, which period is appointed a close season for all such fish.

13. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

14. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing Close Season for Mullet.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of October, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for the purposes therein mentioned, which said regulations shall have force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein:

And whereas it is expedient to make the regulation hereinafter set forth, prescribing a close season for the fish of the species of Mugil known as mullet or kanae, inhabiting the waters of the colony herein described:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby make the following regulation; and, with the like advice and consent, I do order that this regulation shall have force and effect within the North Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and in any salt, fresh, or brackish waters in the said portion of the colony or on the coasts or bays thereof, and in any artificial waters within the said portion of the colony not being the property of any private person.

REGULATION.

THE months of December, January, and February in each year are hereby prescribed a close season for the fish of the species of Mugil known as mullet or kanae. During such close season it shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch mullet.

Any person committing a breach of the above regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land taken at Arahura for Portion of Greymouth to Hokitika Railway.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of October, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the Government work known as the Greymouth to Hokitika Railway shall and may be constructed on or through the parcel of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Westland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 14243, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land taken for Portion of Road, Takaka to Collingwood.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of August, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the Government work known as the road from Takaka to Collingwood shall and may be constructed on or through land held or occupied by Native owners, and that the parcels of land more particularly described in the Schedule hereto shall be taken for the said road.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—