Oct. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1367

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 14678, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing, Hawera and Patea Counties.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of October, 1887.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” and “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” His Excellency 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 the Counties of Hawera and Patea, 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.

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout in all the waters within the Counties of Hawera and Patea will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, 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 fourteenth day of October in each year to the eleventh day of April in the following year 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 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 nine 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 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 counties 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 said society.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ or trout between the twelfth day of April and the fourteenth day of October 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.

J. W. FORTESCUE,
(For Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Powers delegated to the Gate Pa Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of October, 1887.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present order, delegate, but only with respect to the piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Gate Pa Public Domain Board, namely,—

HOWARD KERR,
HENRY JAMES JOHNSON,
JAMES LEVER,
GEORGE HARDING, and
FREDERICK MOON

(herein referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the fourth Saturday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at Greerton, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting, and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the fourth Saturday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 6 acres and 31 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 13 of the Suburbs of Tauranga, Parish of Te Papa, Tauranga Survey District, Provincial District of Auckland. Bounded towards the North-east by Lot No. 12, 1000 links: towards the South-east by Lot No. 14, 847 links; towards the South-west by a road, 738 links; towards the West by a road, 98 links; and towards the North-west by a road, 499 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

J. W. FORTESCUE,
(For Clerk of the Executive Council.)