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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the Counties of Waimea and Collingwood, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, and the waters thereof, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

REGULATIONS.

1. ANY holder of a license as hereinafter mentioned may fish for trout with one rod and line, and may use a landing-net to secure any trout caught with such rod and line, in the Counties of Waimea and Collingwood, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, and the waters thereof, from the first day of October in any one year to the last day of March in the following year, both inclusive. Such licenses will be issued under the hand of the Honorary Secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of ten shillings will be charged.

2. The Secretary of the said society may issue day licenses to bonâ fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid, on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day’s fishing.

3. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish.

4. Any person fishing either without a license, or who shall, on demand of any person holding and showing a license, or on demand of any ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce and show to such person, ranger, police officer, or constable his license, or the contents of his creel, basket, or bag, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty shillings and not exceeding twenty pounds.

5. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout.

6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by any person shall be immediately returned alive to the water; and any person convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty shillings and not exceeding twenty pounds.

7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any river or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream; and all persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than forty shillings and not exceeding fifty pounds.

8. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of every such river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of one-quarter of a mile from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low water.

9. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream in the said district, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than forty shillings and not exceeding fifty pounds.

10. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against these regulations the license, if any, held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

11. 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.

Canterbury School Commissioners to be subject to the Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of September, 1894.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any leasing authority shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, but that no such Order shall have any effect unless it be issued at the request or upon the recommendation of the leasing authority on whose behalf such Order is issued:

And whereas it has been made to appear that the School Commissioners for the Provincial District of Canterbury are a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and have requested that they may be brought under the provisions thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the date hereof the School Commissioners for the Provincial District of Canterbury shall be subject to the provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction, and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Town of Levin.

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

JOHN McKENZIE.
Minister of Lands.