Number 82.

1385

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1892.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1892.

Regulations for Trout-fishing in the Inangahua Acclimatisation District.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of October, 1892.

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 County of Inangahua and the town districts therein, 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 in all the waters of the County of Inangahua and the town districts therein shall be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Inangahua Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed “the said society”), at Reefton, and for every such license a fee of £1 will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the Secretary of the said society to issue a license: Provided further that it shall be lawful for the said Secretary to issue licenses for the whole season to ladies for the sum of 5s. each; and to boys under the age of sixteen years for the sum of 10s. each; and to men, on and after the 20th day of December in any year, for the sum of 12s. 6d. each.

2. Licenses, when issued as aforesaid for the whole season, shall entitle the person named therein to fish for trout in any of the said waters from the 17th day of October in any one year to the 31st day of March in the following year 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 or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow, and any small indigenous fish, grasshoppers, beetles, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, 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 the bait above mentioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

6. No person shall take or attempt to take trout without a license, and every person taking or attempting to take trout shall, on the demand of any ranger, constable, or person producing a license from the said society, produce and show to such ranger, constable, or person his license and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for catching, killing, or taking trout.

7. Every trout not exceeding 10in. in length, from nose to tip of tail, 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 of the salmonidæ or 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. Any fish-dealer having on his business premises any of the salmonidæ or trout shall be deemed to have them in his possession for purpose of sale.

11. 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 to the water from whence it was taken.

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. This shall not apply to débris or tailings from mining claims.

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 within half a mile of 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 5s. nor exceeding £5.

15. These regulations shall come into force as from the date hereof.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Members of Legislative Council appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in Her Majesty’s name, summoned

WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH, Esq., of Auckland;
WILLIAM JENNINGS, Esq., of Auckland;
THOMAS KELLY, Esq., of New Plymouth;
The Hon. EDWARD RICHARDSON, C.M.G., of Wellington;
JOHN RIGG, Esq., of Wellington;
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, Esq., of Christchurch;
JOHN EDWARD JENKINSON, Esq., of Christchurch;
WILLIAM CAMPBELL WALKER, Esq., of Christchurch;
JAMES KERR, Esq., of Greymouth;
WILLIAM MOUAT BOLT, Esq., of Dunedin;
JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., of Dunedin; and
HENRY FELDWICK, Esq., of Invercargill,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writs of summons under the Seal of the Colony.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.—1892.