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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 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 first 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.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prohibiting Netting in Waitaki River and at Mouth thereof.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1888.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby make the following regulations; and I do order that they shall have force and effect in the streams and waters specified therein, and that they shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall use any net for the purpose of taking fish in the Waitaki River or its tributaries, or within a radius of one mile from the middle of such river, at the place where it flows into the sea at low-water ordinary spring-tides: Provided that this regulation shall not prohibit the use of a landing-net by a person duly licensed to take trout, perch, or tench with rod and line.

2. 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.

Prohibiting Netting for Fish in Aparima River and near Mouth thereof.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1888.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities in him vested 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.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall use any net for taking fish in the Aparima River, Southland, or at the mouth or entrance of such river as herein defined.

2. Any person offending against the provisions of the foregoing regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

3. For the purposes of the above regulations the mouth or entrance of the Aparima River shall be deemed to include all the waters within an arc of a circle, of three quarters of a mile radius, drawn seaward from the flagstaff at the entrance to the said river; the points of such arc resting on the foreshore on the line of high-water mark (ordinary spring-tides), and distant respectively three-quarters of a mile from the said flagstaff.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Taupo Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of October, 1888.

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 Land District of Auckland, and known as the Taupo 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the Land District of Auckland, called or known as Section No. 4 of Block II., Tauhara Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 298 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by a line, 5603 links; towards the east by a line, 5340 links; towards the south generally by lines, 5270 and 320 links; and towards the west generally by the Waikato River, by the Otumuheke Block 818 and 2194 links, and by the crossing of a road and the Patuiwi Reserve 285 links to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; save and except from the area hereinbefore described all that parcel of land known as Section No. 5 of Block II., Tauhara Survey District aforesaid, and further excepting two roads, one 100 links in width and one varying in width, which traverse the area hereinbefore described.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in the Taranaki District open for Sale or Selection.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre respectively set opposite such land in the said Schedule.