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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 day of the date hereof.

R. WALROND,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing, &c., in the Geraldine Acclimatisation District.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third 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 the Geraldine Acclimatisation District—which is bounded on the north-west by the Southern Alps; on the north-east by the County of Ashburton; on the south-east by the sea to the Opihi River; on the south-west by the Opihi River to the Tengawai River, thence by the Tengawai River to the Mackenzie County; towards the north-east by the Geraldine County; towards the south by the Waimate County; and towards the west by the Waitaki County—and the waters thereof: and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the day of the date hereof, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout, perch, and tench in all the waters of the Geraldine Acclimatisation District shall be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Geraldine County Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed “the said society”), at Temuka, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged: Provided that licenses may be issued to boys under sixteen years old at a fee of ten shillings each, and to ladies at a fee of five shillings each; and provided also that monthly licenses may be issued to visitors to the district at a fee of ten shillings each: Provided, further, that it shall not be obligatory upon the said society to issue a license.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the twenty-second day of September in the year in which the license is issued to the thirty-first day of March in the year following 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 (Eleotris 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, perch, or tench.

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 society, or person producing a license from such society, 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, perch, or tench, as the case may be.

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, perch, or tench, except during the above-mentioned period.

9. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale any of the salmonidæ, trout, perch, 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.

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, trout, perch, or tench 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 day of the date hereof.

R. WALROND,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Ormondville Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1891.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present order, delegate, but only with respect to the piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Ormondville Public Domain Board, namely,—

ROBERT REID GROOM,
FREDERICK WILLIAM REDWARD,
GEORGE HENSON,
FREDERICK WILLIAM SHUGAR,
CHARLES BAINES, and
JOB PACKER

(hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Thursday in each month, at four o’clock p.m., at Ormondville, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Thursday, the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting, and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the third Thursday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting