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Complete specification.

4. When a provisional specification is followed by a complete specification, the latter must state the number and date of deposit of such provisional specification.

Application by a firm.

5. The signature of a firm, or of a member of a firm, on behalf of the firm, shall be attested by some adult witness, who shall state his address and occupation after his signature. When one member of a firm signs on behalf of or in the name of the firm, evidence to the satisfaction of the Registrar shall be produced that such member is authorised to bind the firm in manner proposed.

Notice in writing to be given.

6. Notice of every appeal from any decision of the Registrar shall, within forty-eight hours of the time when such decision was given, be served in writing upon the person in whose favour such decision was given.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing a Close Season for Seals.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of January, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. MITCHELSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations (which shall have force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals:

And whereas it is provided by the third section of “The Fisheries Conservation Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” that a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds may be imposed in respect of the breach of any regulations respecting seals, and a further penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds for every seal illegally taken:

And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth with respect to seals inhabiting or found within the waters of the colony herein mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said Act and “The Fisheries Conservation Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall take effect on and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof, or that may be contiguous or adjacent to such waters.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE months of January, February, March, April, and May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, are hereby prescribed a close season for seals.

2. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in possession any seal, or the skins, oil, or blubber of any seal, during the close season hereby prescribed for the same.

3. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not exceeding five hundred pounds, and a further penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds for every seal illegally taken.

4. Every penalty imposed by these regulations shall be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing in the Greymouth and Inangahua Acclimatisation Districts.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of January, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. MITCHELSON PRESIDING 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 Greymouth and Inangahua Acclimatisation Districts — which include the Boroughs of Brunner and Greymouth, and the County of Grey, and the Borough of Reefton, and the County of Inangahua — and 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 of the Greymouth and Inangahua Acclimatisation Districts shall be issued under the hand of the Secretaries of the Greymouth and Inangahua Acclimatisation Societies (hereinafter termed “the said Acclimatisation Societies”), at Greymouth and Reefton, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the said Acclimatisation Societies to issue a license.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette to the twenty-eighth day of February next inclusive, but no such license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

3. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with one rod and line only, and with the following baits, namely: Natural and artificial fly, natural and artificial minnows, silveries, bullies (Electris gobioides), grasshoppers, beetles, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, grubs, and worms.

4. No person shall use any other bait, or any method, device, or contrivance of any sort or kind (except a rod and line and landing-net or gaff) whatever, for the purpose of fishing for, catching, killing, or taking trout.

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

6. No person shall fish without a license, and every person fishing shall, on the demand of any ranger, constable, member of the said Acclimatisation Societies, or person producing a license from such societies or either of them, produce and show to such ranger, constable, member, or person his license or the contents of his creel or bag, and the baits used by him for catching, killing, or taking trout.

7. Every trout not exceeding eight inches in length, taken or caught by any person, shall be immediately returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

8. No person shall fish for, take, catch, or kill, or attempt to fish for, take, catch, or kill, in any manner whatsoever, or have in his possession, any trout, except during the above-mentioned period.

9. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale 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.

10. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon-parr, or smolt, or the young of any salmon; and any of the above-named taken by accident or otherwise shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ or trout during the period appointed for a close season for any such fish.

12. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, in any of the waters hereinbefore mentioned, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

13. No person shall put, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, for any purpose whatever, any net of any description (except a landing-net) in any of the waters hereinbefore mentioned, or at the mouth or entrance of any such waters.

14. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds.

15. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.