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any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

13. No person shall put, set, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, set, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, for any purpose whatever, any net of any description (except a landing-net for fish taken with rod and line) 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.

Regulations for Trout- and Perch-fishing, Otago District.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1891.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 all that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded on the east and south by the ocean, from Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura River; on the north-west by Lake County; on the west and south-west by the Mataura River; and on the north, north-west, and north-east by the Counties of Westland and Waitaki, and the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the publication of the date thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout and perch in all the waters within and forming the boundaries of the following districts —viz.: All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded on the east and south by the ocean, from Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura River; on the west and south-west by the Mataura River; on the north-west by Lake County; and on the north, north-west, and north-east by the Counties of Westland and Waitaki—will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed “the said society”), at Dunedin; and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged. Licenses to fish for perch only within the aforesaid area will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the said society, and for every such license a fee of five shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the Secretary to issue a license.

2. Every license to fish for trout and perch shall entitle the person named therein to fish for trout in any of the waters within the above-mentioned area from the first day of October in any one year to the fifteenth day of April in the year following, inclusive, between the hours of four a.m. and ten p.m. only; and every license to fish for trout and perch and every license to fish for perch only shall entitle the person named therein to fish for perch from the first day of December in any one year to the fifteenth day of April in the year following, inclusive, between the hours of four a.m. and ten p.m. only; 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, or perch except during the above-mentioned periods for such fish respectively.

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, silveries, bullies, 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 or perch except a rod and line, and a landing-net or gaff for fish taken with rod and line, except as hereinafter provided.

6. 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 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, 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 or perch.

8. Every trout not exceeding eight inches in length, and every perch not exceeding six 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, into 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 alive to the water from whence they were taken.

11. Licenses to sell trout and perch may be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the said society, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged.

No person other than the holders of such licenses shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ, trout, or perch.

12. 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, except as provided in clause 13 of these regulations.

13. Licenses to use a seine-net for the taking of brown and salmon-trout in the waters of Otago Harbour, Blueskin Bay, and Waihola Lake may be issued by the said society at a fee of three guineas for each net.

No net with a mesh of less than four and a half inches shall be used; and stake or fixed nets are hereby expressly prohibited.

Nothing in this regulation shall in any way affect the provisions of clause 10.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Trustees for Waitaki North Cemetery appointed.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.