Oct. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1143

lency 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 Wanganui Acclimatisation District, which consists
of the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, and the Rid-
ings of Okakapu, Porewa, Wangaehu, Makohau, and Parae-
karetu, in the County of Rangitikei, and in the waters
thereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations
shall, as from the date of this Order in Council, supersede
all regulations at variance therewith.

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REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout, carp, and perch in all the
   waters within the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara,
   and the Ridings of Okakapu, Porewa, Wangaehu, Makohau,
   and Paraekaretu, in the County of Rangitikei, will be issued
   under the hand of the Secretary of the Wanganui Accli-
   matisation Society, and for every such license a fee of ten
   shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be
   obligatory upon the 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 fifteenth
   day of October in any one year to the eleventh day of April
   in the following year, 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, carp, or
   perch, 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
   minnows, silveries, bullies, grasshoppers, spiders, caterpil-
   lars, 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, carp,
   or perch, except with 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 unsports-
   manlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking,
   catching, or killing trout, carp, 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, 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, carp, or
   perch.

8. Every trout, carp, or perch not exceeding eight 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 what-
   ever 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 sal-
    mon in any stage whatever; and any of the above-named
    taken by accident shall immediately be returned to the
    water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale,
    within the district to which these regulations relate, any of
    the salmonidæ, trout, carp, or perch, or take, fish for, catch,
    or kill any of the salmonidæ, trout, carp, or perch in order to
    make sale of the same, without permission in writing under
    the hand of the Secretary of the said society.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the sal-
    monidæ, trout, carp, or perch between the twelfth day of
    April and the fifteenth day of October in each year, which
    period is appointed a close season for all such fish.

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

14. These regulations shall come into force as from the
    date of this Order in Council.

ROBERT LECKIE,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exportation of Rock, Shore, Drift, or Mangrove Oysters
prohibited.

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ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth
day of October, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL SECRETARY PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the thirteenth section of
“ The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885 ” (herein-
after termed “ the said Act ”), that the Governor may, by
Order in Council, from time to time regulate or prohibit the
exportation from the colony of any fish caught or produced in
the waters of the colony: And whereas it is also provided
by the said Act that the term “ fish ” shall include oysters:
And whereas it is advisable to prohibit the exportation of the
oysters known as Ostrea purpurea, Ostrea glomerata, Ostrea
mordax, or the rock, shore, drift or mangrove oyster:
Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the
powers conferred upon me by the said Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, do hereby, from and after the twenty-second
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one,
prohibit the exportation from the colony of all oysters known
as Ostrea purpurea, Ostrea glomerata, Ostrea mordax, or the
rock, shore, drift, or mangrove oysters, or by whatever name
they may be locally known, taken or produced in the waters
of the said colony.

ROBERT LECKIE,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Rural Land in the Nelson Land District open for Sale or
Selection.

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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 land 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.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—PAKAWAU SURVEY DISTRICT.
UNSURVEYED SECOND-CLASS LAND.

All that block of land containing approximately 13,000 acres,
situated in the Land District of Nelson, being portions of
Blocks IV., V., VI., IX., and X., Pakawau Survey District,
and bounded towards the northward and north-westward
partly by Pakawau Creek, partly by track leading from Pa-
kawau to West Wanganui, partly by surveyed sections, and
partly by West Wanganui Inlet; towards the south-west-
ward partly by Section 1, Square 17, partly by Crown lands,
and partly by Section 5, Block XIII., Pakawau District;
and towards the south-eastward and eastward partly by sur-
veyed sections and partly by a block of second-class lands, as
described in a Proclamation dated the 17th September, 1890.
Description: Very rough, broken ranges; mostly covered
with heavy bush. Access principally by the road between
Pakawau Inlet and West Wanganui Inlet.
Cash price, 5s. per acre; deferred-payment price, 6s. 3d.
per acre; perpetual-lease rent, 3d. per acre.

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

JOHN McKENZIE
Minister of Lands.