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3. No nets of a smaller mesh than three and a half inches
   in diameter (when the net is wetted) shall be used in any
   portion of the said district for the taking of trout, and all
   trout caught by net not larger than twelve inches in length
   shall be forthwith returned to the water.

4. No nets for the taking of fish of any kind or description
   whatever shall be used or set or placed in any of the rivers
   or streams or creeks within the said district, or within one
   mile of the mouth of any river, stream, or creek within the
   said district.

5. No person shall be permitted to use a net for the pur-
   pose of fishing in any of the lakes aforesaid unless he holds a
   valid license so to net from the Secretary of the said
   society. A fee of one pound each will be charged for such
   licenses.

6. Notwithstanding anything whatever contained in the
   regulations for fishing for trout, perch, and tench made by
   Order in Council of even date herewith, it shall be lawful
   for the Secretary of the said society to issue licenses to
   persons to sell lake trout, and it shall also be lawful for
   persons to purchase such trout; and the right of such sale
   shall be let by the said society from year to year by public
   auction or tender.

7. Every person licensed by the society to catch or sell
   lake trout shall have a brand, approved of by the Secretary
   of the said society, and shall brand every trout caught by
   him as soon as caught, and before selling or in any way
   disposing of the same.

8. The said society, through their officers, rangers, in-
   spectors, constables, or any other person duly authorized,
   shall have full power at any time to inspect, examine, and
   search for any nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or
   instruments used and employed for the taking of fish within
   the area of the said district, and to seize and appropriate all
   and every such nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils
   or instruments so used and employed in contravention of
   these regulations; and also to seize and appropriate as afore-
   said all and every fish caught and in possession of any person
   during the close season, or in possession of any person who
   cannot or does not produce at the time of catching or dispos-
   ing of such fish a license under the hand of the Secretary of
   the said society empowering him in that behalf.

9. The moneys realised by the leasing of the lakes for the
   purpose of fishing therein with nets shall be placed by the
   Chairman of the society to the credit of a separate fund,
   called “The Canterbury District Acclimatisation Fund,”
   and such moneys shall be devoted to the propagation, cul-
   ture, and conservation of the fish in the Canterbury Accli-
   matisation Society’s district; and the surplus, if any, to
   the credit of the society from such source on the first day of
   November in each year shall be disposed of as the Governor
   in Council may deem fit.

10. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the said society
    to forward to the Marine Department, on or before the tenth
    day of November in each year, a statement, certified by the
    said Chairman, showing in detail the number and particulars
    of all licenses to net and leases granted by the society, the
    several amounts received and paid to the credit of the said
    fund, and the amounts disbursed therefrom during the year
    ending the thirty-first day of October previous.

11. These regulations shall not apply to that portion of Lake
    Ellesmere outside a radius of one mile from the middle of the
    Rivers Selwyn and Irwell, at the places where those rivers flow
    into the said lake at low-water ordinary spring-tides; and for
    the purposes of these regulations the mouth of the River
    Heathcote shall be deemed to be at the Heathcote Swing-
    bridge situated on the main road between Christchurch and
    Sumner; and the mouth of the River Avon shall be deemed to
    be at the southern end of the island in that river lying opposite
    Section number eleven thousand two hundred and twelve, in
    the Christchurch Survey District; nor shall they apply to
    that portion of the River Waimakariri east of a straight
    line drawn at straight angles to the course of the said river
    and across the said river from the eastern corner of Rural
    Section number one thousand three hundred and ninety-three,
    in the Mandeville Survey District, the said corner of Rural
    Section number one thousand three hundred and ninety-
    three being two miles or thereabouts in an easterly direction
    from the main bridge over the River Waimakariri in the
    Town of Kaiapoi.

12. Every person committing a breach of these regulations
    shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty of not less than
    one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds.

13. These regulations shall come into force on and from
    the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand
    Gazette.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing, Southland District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth
day of September, 1887.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations
for that portion of the Provincial District of Otago formerly
known as the Province of Southland, and 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.

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout in all the waters within and
   forming the District of Southland, including Mataura River,
   southern side, will be issued under the hand of the Secretary
   of the Southland Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed
   “the said society”) at Invercargill, and for every such license
   a fee of ten shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall
   not be obligatory upon the society 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, to
   the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
   eighty-eight, 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 un-
   sportsmanlike 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 prepara-
   tion whatever.

7. No person shall fish without a license, and every person
   fishing shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, member
   of the said 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 what-
   ever 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 re-
    turned 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 Secre-
    tary of the said society.

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

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.