1592
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1899.
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 throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein:
And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter 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 regulations 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.
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.

Declaring that the Provisions of the Mining Act shall apply to mining for Diamonds in a Portion of the Hauraki Mining District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1899.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by sections four and nine of “The Mining Act, 1898,” 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 declare that all the provisions of “The Mining Act, 1898,” shall apply to mining for precious stones called diamonds; and, with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall take effect in the portion of the Hauraki Mining District described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by a right line from the source of the Waikoukou River to the northernmost corner of Section No. 97, Paremoremo Parish; thence by Pukeatua and Okura Parishes to the sea: thence towards the east generally by the sea to the mouth of the Wairau Stream: thence towards the south generally by the said Wairau Stream and its northern branch, through Sections Nos. 105, 113, and 112, Parish of Takapuna, to its source; thence by a right line to the source of Hellyer’s Creek; thence by the said Hellyer’s Creek to Waitemata Harbour; thence by the waters of the said Waitemata Harbour, by Brigham’s Creek and Waipareira Parish to the Kumeu River: and thence towards the west generally by that river and the Waikoukou River to the source of the latter river, the place of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Setting apart Reserves under “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1899.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council is authorised under the said Act to set apart any specified area of Crown lands within a kauri-gum district to be kauri-gum reserves under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to create and set apart the kauri-gum reserves hereinafter mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the areas of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto as kauri-gum reserves, with the names respectively set over the descriptions of such reserves in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

HOBSON COUNTY.

Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 1: 3,200 acres. For Opanake Settlement.

Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2: 1,650 acres. For Opanake Settlement.

Kairara Kauri-gum Reserve: 1,920 acres. For Avoca and Tangowahine Settlements.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.

Punakitere Kauri-gum Reserve: 11,850 acres. For Omapere and Punakitere Settlements.

HOBSON COUNTY.

Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 1.

All that area in the Auckland Land District situate in Block I., Kai Iwi Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 3,200 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the northern boundary of Block I., Kai Iwi Survey District, and by the Ngakiriperaua Stream; towards the east by the Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve, proclaimed in Gazette of the 21st December, 1898, by the Taharoa Lake, by a right line being the production in a north-westerly direction of the south-western boundary of Section No. 4 of Block I., Kai Iwi Survey District, by said Section No. 4, and by the Taharoa Block; towards the south by the Kaihu No. 1 Block; and towards the south-west by the Tasman Sea to the point of commencement.

Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2.

All that area in the Auckland Land District situate in Blocks I. and II., Kaihu Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 1,650 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the Opanake No. 2D, No. 2E, No. 1, and No. 2F Blocks; towards the south-east by the Kaihu No. 1 Block; towards the west by the Taharoa Block and the production of its eastern boundary to Taharoa Lake; and towards the north-west generally by the Taharoa Lake, by a right line being the production in a westerly direction of the southern boundary of Section No. 17 of Block I., Kaihu Survey District, by said Section No. 17, by the Kai Iwi Kauri-gum Reserve, proclaimed in Gazette of the 21st December, 1898, and by a public road to the point of commencement.

Kairara Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District situate in Block XVI., Tutamoe Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 1,920 acres, more less. Bounded towards the north by a right line running due east from the western boundary of Block XVI., Tutamoe Survey District, to the southernmost angle of Section No. 1 of that block, by said Section No. 1, and by Te Karaka Block; towards the east by a right line running parallel to and at a distance of 12000 links in a westerly direction from the eastern boundary of Block XVI. aforesaid; towards the south by a right line running parallel to and at a distance of 2000 links in a northerly direction from the southern boundary of the same block; and towards the west by Block XV. of Tutamoe Survey District to the point of commencement.

HOKIANGA COUNTY.

Punakitere Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District situate in Blocks XVI., Mangamuka Survey District, XIII. and XIV.,