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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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whether the same have been caught, or frozen, or procured before the thirty-first day of March previous in the district to which these regulations relate, or in any other district subject to the provisions of the Act with respect to the taking of salmonidæ for acclimatisation purposes or for pisciculture.

12. The said society, through their officers, rangers, inspectors, constables, or any other person duly authorised, shall have full power at any time to inspect, examine, and search for any nets, spears, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or instruments used and employed for the taking of fish within the area of the said district, or for conveying same and carrying same, and to seize on behalf of the Commissioner all and every such nets, spears, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or instruments so used and employed in contravention of these regulations; and also to seize as aforesaid 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 on demand a license under the hand of the Secretary of the said society.

13. The moneys realised by the leasing of the lakes for the purpose of taking lake trout 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, culture, and conservation of the fish in the Canterbury 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 said Chairman may deem fit for acclimatisation purposes.

14. 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 April in each year, a statement, certified by the said Chairman, showing in detail the number and particulars of all licenses issued to take lake trout, and of 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 March previous.

15. 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, and Hall’s Creek, Halswell and Kaituna Streams, at the places where those rivers and creeks 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, situate 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 No. 11212, in the Christchurch Survey District; nor shall they apply to that portion of the River Waimakariri east of a straight line drawn at right angles to the course of the said river, and across the said river from the eastern corner of Rural Section No. 1393, in the Mandeville Survey District, the said corner of Rural Section No. 1393 being two miles or thereabouts in an easterly direction from the main bridge over the River Waimakariri, in the Town of Kaiapoi.

16. Every person committing a breach of these regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty, unless otherwise specially provided, of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds, and his license or licenses thereupon shall immediately become forfeited without any compensation whatever.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing, &c., Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

ONSLow, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of September, 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance 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 that part of the Provincial District of Canterbury to the north of the Rakaiā River, and in the waters thereof, including the waters of the Rakaiā River which are not included in the County of Ashburton; 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, perch, and tench in all the waters in the Provincial District of Canterbury north of the Rakaiā River will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, at Christchurch (hereinafter termed “the said Society”), and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the said Secretary to issue a license.

Provided that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the said society to issue licenses for the whole season to boys under the age of sixteen years for the sum of ten shillings, to ladies for the sum of five shillings, and on and after the twentieth day of December to men for the sum of ten shillings, and to boys under the age of sixteen years for the sum of five shillings.

2. Licenses when issued as aforesaid for the whole season shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the first day of October in any one year to the thirty-first day of March in the year following; 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, trout, perch, or tench, 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, and any small indigenous fish, 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, perch, or tench, 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, perch, or tench; 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, constable, member, or person his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout, perch, or tench.

8. Every trout not exceeding ten 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 or otherwise shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken; but this shall not prevent the officers of the said society, or any person authorised by the Secretary of the said society, from taking any kind or description of fish for scientific purposes or for the purposes of pisciculture.

11. No person other than is provided by the regulations for taking lake trout shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ, trout, or tench, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ, trout, perch, or tench in order to make sale of the same.

12. No person shall take, catch, or kill any perch under eight inches in length, nor shall perch be taken, caught, or killed at all, or had in possession of any person, between the thirty-first day of July and the thirtieth day of November in any year.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.