SEPT. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1261

REGULATIONS.

1. The months of December, January, February, and March in each year are hereby prescribed as a close season for oysters in the North Island and islands adjacent thereto. During such close season it shall be unlawful for any person to take oysters.

2. Any person may buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in possession any oysters for the space of fourteen days after the commencement of the close season for such oysters: Provided, however, that nothing contained in this regulation shall be deemed to authorise the taking or dredging for any kind of oyster during the said period of fourteen days.

3. No person shall take or burn live oysters for the purpose of converting the shells into lime.

4. No spade or other apparatus for taking rock-oysters shall be used of which the edge or blade shall exceed two inches in width.

5. Every person engaged in taking oysters shall first obtain a license from a Collector of Customs, which license shall be in the form set out in the Schedule hereto, and shall expire on the 30th day of November in each year. The fee to be paid for such license shall be 10s.

6. These regulations shall only apply to the North Island of New Zealand, and the islands, waters, tidal lands, and tidal waters adjacent thereto.

7. Every person who shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing regulations shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £100.

SCHEDULE.

WHEREAS has applied to me to grant him a license to take oysters, and has paid into my hands the sum of 10s. for the same: Now, therefore, I do hereby license the said to take oysters in any oyster fishery situate within the North Island of the colony, and wherein it is lawful to take oysters, during the months of and of this present year, subject to the provisions of “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1892,” and the regulation in force thereunder respectively.

Dated in the Port of , this day of , 189 .

Collector of Customs.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing Export Duty on Oysters from North Island.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the seventh section of “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1892” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that there shall be levied, collected, and paid to Her Majesty at the Customs, in manner as provided in “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” upon oysters in their natural state in the shell, previous to their exportation from New Zealand, a duty at such rate not exceeding one shilling the hundredweight as the Governor by Order in Council may prescribe from time to time: And whereas it is desirable to prescribe the duty which shall be so paid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby prescribe that there shall be levied, collected, and paid to Her Majesty at the Customs, in manner provided in “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” upon oysters in their natural state in the shell which have been produced and taken in the North Island of the colony, a duty—as an export duty—at the rate of sixpence the hundredweight, such duty to be paid previous to the exportation of such oysters from New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1892,” for the South and Stewart Islands.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section five of “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1892” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for the purposes therein mentioned, which said regulations shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect in any waters or places specified in such regulations:

And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations herein-after set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations; and with the like advice and consent doth order that these regulations shall take effect on and after the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. The months of October, November, December, and January in each year are hereby prescribed as a close season for oysters in the South Island and Stewart Island, and islands adjacent thereto. During such close season it shall be unlawful for any person to take oysters.

2. Any person may buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in possession any oysters for the space of fourteen days after the commencement of the close season for such oysters: Provided, however, that nothing contained in this regulation shall be deemed to authorise the taking or dredging for any kind of oyster during the said period of fourteen days.

3. No person shall take or burn live oysters for the purpose of converting the shells into lime.

4. No person shall take or dredge for oysters between sunset and sunrise (except an owner on his own private oyster-bed).

5. No oyster shall be taken which can be passed through a metal ring having a clear inside diameter of one inch and three-quarters.

6. Every person who shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing regulations shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £100.

7. The South Island and Stewart Island shall be excluded from the operation of the eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth sections of the said Act.

8. These regulations shall only apply to the South Island of New Zealand and Stewart Island, and the waters thereof respectively, and the islands, waters, tidal lands, and tidal waters adjacent thereto.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association incorporated.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby incorporate the members of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and such persons as shall hereafter be admitted members of the said association agreeably to the rules of the said association and the provisions of the said Act, into a body corporate under the said Act, under the style and title of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Northern Oyster Fishery, and Subdivisions wherein Oysters may and may not be taken.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1892” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the bays, estuaries, tidal waters, and tidal lands situated between the south head of Whangaruru Harbour on the south and North Cape on the north (including the bays, estuaries, tidal waters, and tidal lands of any island situate between such points) to be an oyster fishery, under the name of “The Northern Oyster Fishery;” and I do hereby divide the same into three subdivisions, namely:—

First. “The Southern Subdivision,” which shall extend from the south head of Whangaruru Harbour to the south side of the entrance to the River Waitangi, in the Bay of