Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1519

requested that it may be declared a Harbour Board for that harbour:

And whereas it is desirable that such request should be acceded to, and that the limits of such estuary or arm of the sea should be defined as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby declare that, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, the said Council shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within the limits hereinafter set forth.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore recited authority, His said Excellency, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby define the limits of the estuary or arm of the sea at Fortrose aforesaid within which the Council of the County of Southland is to exercise the powers aforesaid as follows, that is to say,—

All that portion of Fortrose Harbour bounded towards the sea by the arc of a circle of three nautical miles radius from the flagstaff at the entrance to the said harbour, and landward by a line drawn in a north-westerly direction from the northern extremity of the boundary-line between Sections numbers fourteen and thirteen, Block seven, Toitois District, and the continuation in an easterly direction of the boundary-line between Section number eighteen, and a bush reserve in the said block.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Addition to the Kowai Domain brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, 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, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Provincial District of Canterbury, and known as the Kowai Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881;” and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with, in manner directed by the said Act, by the Domain Board constituted by an Order in Council issued on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Section No. 2777 (in red), situate in the Teviotdale Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the North Road, 943 links; towards the north-east by Cross Street, 315 links; towards the eastward by Terrace Road, 668 links; and towards the south by Lot No. 52, subdivision of Reserve No. 89, 918 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Salmon and Trout Regulations, Waitaki District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “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 County of Waitaki and the waters thereof, in addition to the regulations made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 59, of the fifteenth day of the same month.

REGULATIONS.

15. No person shall net for salmon, salmonidæ, or trout in any of the lakes, rivers, streams, or creeks in the County of Waitaki, or in the sea in the vicinity of any river, stream, or creek which is within the said county, except for scientific or piscicultural purposes, and then only by direction or permission of the Secretary to the Waitaki County Acclimatisation Society.

Any person netting for indigenous fish in any bay or harbour, or near the mouth of any river, stream, or creek, which is within the said county, shall immediately return into the water alive any salmon, salmonidæ, or trout which may be caught in their nets.

16. No person shall use stake-nets in or near the mouth of any lake, river, stream, or creek in the said county.

17. Any person committing a breach of either or any of these regulations 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 proposed to be taken for Portion of the Thames to Hikutaia Section of the Waikato-Thames Railway.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of September, 1887.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work authorised to be constructed by the Government, to wit, the Thames-Hikutaia Section of the Waikato-Thames Railway:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof, 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 Thames-Hikutaia Section of the Waikato-Thames Railway shall and may be constructed on or through the parcels of land more particularly mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 16 perches, being portion of Native land, commencing at the southernmost corner of Tawhitirahi No. 1, 1333. Bounded North-westerly by a line, 266 links; North-easterly by a road, 1356 links; South-easterly by a line, 312 links; South-westerly by high-water mark and by lines to commencing-point, 377 and 988 links respectively.

All those pieces or parcels of land containing by admeasurement 15 acres 2 roods 11 perches, being portions of Native land east of Kopu Block, commencing at the point of intersection of the eastern boundary of Kopu Block with the north-west boundary of Kopu Road. Bounded Westerly by a line, 70 links; North-easterly by a line, 68 links; South-easterly by Kopu Road to commencing-point, 40 links.

Also all that other piece or parcel of land commencing at the north-west corner of Mimiakaiaru Block, 4363. Bounded North-westerly by a road, 1096 links; Westerly and South-westerly by lines, 297, 408, and 849 links respectively; South-easterly by a line, 143 links; South-westerly by a line, 1389 links; South-easterly by a line, 101 links; North-easterly by a line, 1406 links; South-easterly by lines, 157 and 520 links respectively; North-easterly by lines to commencing-point, 308 and 854 links respectively.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less; the several parcels of land being situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, Colony of New Zealand; and are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 8330, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council,