986
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

2. For every license to fish for trout and perch issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society or his deputy a fee of twenty shillings will be charged. Licenses may also be issued to boys of the age of sixteen years or under, or to ladies, at a reduced fee of five shillings for every license so issued: Provided it shall not be obligatory on the said Secretary or his deputy to issue a license.

3. The Secretary of the said society may issue day licenses to bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid, on their introduction to him by any two members of the said society, and on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day's fishing: Provided that this payment may be remitted if the applicant be a member of or hold a valid license from any other society in New Zealand which grants the like privilege.

4. Any holder of a license may fish with one rod and line for trout and perch, and may use a landing-net or gaff to secure any trout or perch caught with such rod and line, in the above-named waters, from the fifteenth day of September in any one year to the fifteenth day of April in the year following, both inclusive.

5. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that with natural or artificial fly, insect, or fish only.

6. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ or trout between the sixteenth day of April and the fourteenth day of September, which period is hereby appointed a close season for all such fish: Provided always that this regulation shall not apply to fish caught by the officers of the said society for purposes of acclimatisation.

7. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

8. 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.

9. No person shall fish for trout or perch 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 such trout or perch.

10. 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.

11. No person shall take, catch, or kill any perch under six inches in length, nor shall perch be taken, caught, or killed at all, or had in possession of any person, between the sixteenth day of April and the fourteenth day of September in any year.

12. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout or perch; nor shall any of the above-mentioned baits be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

13. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any river or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream.

14. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of every such river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of one-quarter of a mile from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low-water.

15. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any salmon, trout, or perch, or any part thereof.

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

17. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notification that Her Majesty has relinquished Negotiations for the Acquisition of certain Native Lands.

ONSLow, Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Government Native Land Purchases Act, 1877,” and “The Government Native Land Purchases Act Amendment Act, 1878,” it is hereby notified that Her Majesty the Queen has relinquished negotiations in respect of the block of Native land in the North Island which is more particularly described and mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MANGATAINOKA No. 1bc, No. 2.

CONTAINING 728 acres 2 roods 12 perches (less three several parcels containing respectively 1 acre 3 roods 36 perches, 3 roods 16 perches, and 13 acres 2 roods 23·6 perches, taken under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 11, of the 21st February, 1889, for the purposes of the Wellington–Napier Railway), situated in the Mangahao Survey District, being the residue of the land comprised in the certificate of title, Vol. xlviii., folio 113, of the Register-book of the Wellington District, and partition-orders of the Native Land Court, made at Palmerston North and Greytown North on the 2nd June, 1887, and 8th November, 1888, respectively.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

EDWIN MITCHELSON.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSLow, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 not less than 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 stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

UNSURVEYED LAND.

Coromandel County.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Cape Colville Survey District, and containing approximately 1,400 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the east generally by the sea; towards the south-east by Section 1 of Block II., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-west by a right line from the westernmost angle of Section 1 aforesaid to the southernmost angle of the Moehau No. 1m Block; and towards the north-west by the Moehau No. 1m Block aforesaid to the point of commencement.

Description of Land: Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Cape Colville Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,450 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Poihakene No. 1 Block; towards the east by a right line running due south from the south-eastern angle of the last-named block, 12000 links; thence towards the north-east by a right line to the northernmost angle of Section 1 of Block I., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-east by that section; and towards the west generally by the sea to the point of commencement.

Description of Land: Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Harataunga Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,700 acres. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea; towards the south-east generally by the Tapapakaroro, Okakutahi, and Motukahakaha Blocks to the westernmost angle of the last-named block; thence towards the south-west by a right line to the southernmost angle of Section 1 of Block II., Moehau Survey District; and towards the north-west by that section and Stony Bay to the point of commencement.

Description of Land: Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 7s. 6d. per acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands,