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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the Ashburton County, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, and in the waters thereof, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

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REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout and perch in all the waters in the County of Ashburton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society, at Ashburton, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the Secretary to issue a license.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the first day of October in any year to the thirty-first day of March in the year following, inclusive, between the hours of five 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 (Electris gobioides), 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 or perch 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 unsportsman-like device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout or perch, 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 or perch.

8. Every trout not exceeding ten 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, into 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, trout, or perch, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ, trout, or perch in order to make sale of the same, for a period of one year from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ, trout, or perch during the period appointed for a close season for any of such fish.

13. No person shall take, catch, or kill any perch under eight inches in length; nor shall perch be taken, caught, or killed at all, or had in the possession of any person, between the first day of April and the thirtieth day of November in any year.

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

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Village Settlement in Block II., Winton Hundred, Southland Land District.

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WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of July, 1887.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same: And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,——

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of as small-farm allotments for cash and upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, at the Land Office, Invercargill.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

6. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

7. If there should be more than one application for any allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Second Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Southland Land District one-tenth of the price of the allotment. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Second Schedule, upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

Small-farm Allotments for Cash.

Village Settlement in Block II., Winton Hundred.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

Small-farm Allotments on Deferred Payments.

Village Settlement in Block II., Winton Hundred.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.