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such licenses shall be subject in all respects to the provisions
of the regulations for trout-fishing within the Auckland Ac-
climatisation District published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the 31st October, 1895, and such licenses shall not be
available outside the County of Rotorua.
10. Any person holding a one-pound license to fish for
trout issued under the provisions of the regulations men-
tioned in the preceding clause may fish with rod and line
only in any waters within the County of Rotorua, except
those streams specially reserved by these regulations.
11. No fishing for trout shall take place in the following
streams within the County of Rotorua: All the tributaries
of the Waikorowhiti, near Rotorua, and the Mangaweri and
Mangapikopiko, tributaries of the Whirinaki River.
12. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society, through its
officers, rangers, constables, or any other person duly au-
thorised by it, shall have full power to inspect, examine, and
search for any nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or
instruments unlawfully used or employed for the taking of
trout within the said County of Rotorua, and to seize and
appropriate, in the interests of the said society, all and every
such nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils and instru-
ments so used or employed in contravention of these regula-
tions; and also to seize and appropriate, as aforesaid, all and
every trout caught and in the possession of any person who
cannot or does not produce, at the time of catching or sale
of such trout, a valid license issued by the Auckland Accli-
matisation Society.
13. The regulations for trout-fishing within the Auckland
Acclimatisation District, published in the New Zealand
Gazette of 31st October, 1895, which are not opposed to the
spirit of the regulations now issued, shall continue in force
within the County of Rotorua, and shall be read and con-
strued together with these regulations.
14. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations
shall not be less than £2 or more than £50.
15. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against
these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender
shall thereupon become void.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for holding Election of Chairman, County
of Hutt.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of
December, 1897.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Council of the County of Hutt failed
to elect a Chairman of the said county at the annual
meeting, held on the twenty-fourth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, in the manner
provided by section seventy-eight of "The Counties Act,
1886":
And whereas it is expedient to extend the time for such
election:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities vested in him by "The Counties Act, 1886,"
and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for
holding the election of the Chairman of the County of Hutt,
and doth hereby order and declare that such election shall
take place at a meeting of the Council of the said county to
be held at ten o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the four-
teenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven, at the Hutt County Council Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of Auckland, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and thirty-fifth section of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the Governor
may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed
or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown
lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands
in the Land Districts of Auckland, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto,
for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, and opposite the descriptions of the lands so
intended to be temporarily reserved,

Allowing Use of Set-nets for Whitebait in Ashley River.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day
of December, 1897.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by "The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894," it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may from
time to time make regulations for the purposes therein
mentioned, which shall have general force and effect through-
out the colony, or particular force and effect only in any
waters or places specified therein:
And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations herein-
after set forth with respect to the indigenous fish known as
"whitebait," inhabiting the waters of the colony herein
mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon 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 regu-
lations shall have force and effect in the River Ashley and
the waters thereof, and in its tributaries the Taranaki and
Waikuku Creeks, all in the Provincial District of Canterbury,
but they shall not apply to any other tributary of the said
river.

REGULATIONS.

1. Whitebait-nets, having an opening of not more than
   three feet by one foot, may be used as set-nets from the date
   hereof until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand
   eight hundred and ninety-eight.
2. No person shall use more than one set-net, and no
   person shall set or place his net within a distance of two chains
   from another set-net.
3. Any person committing a breach of either of these
   regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one
   pound and not exceeding twenty pounds.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Taranaki withdrawn from Sale and Selection under
Part III. of "The Land Act, 1892."

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
me by the sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I,
Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that, from and
after the day of the date hereof, the notification issued on
the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-four, opening land for sale or selection under the
provisions of Part III. of "The Land Act, 1892," shall be
and the same is hereby revoked in so far as it relates to the
sections of land enumerated in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
Upper Waitara Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-seven.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.