Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1815

Regulations for Trout and Perch-fishing, Hawera and Patea Counties.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of October, 1900.

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 Counties of Hawera and Patea, and in 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. Licenses to fish for trout and perch in all the waters within the Counties of Hawera and Patea will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of ten shillings will be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the society to issue a license.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the first day of October in any one year to the eleventh day of April in the following year, inclusive, between the hours of four a.m. and ten p.m. only; but no such license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

3. No person shall fish for, take, catch, or kill, or have in his possession, or attempt to fish for, take, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, any of the salmonidæ, or trout, or perch, except during the above-mentioned period.

4. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with one rod and line only, and with the following baits: natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow, silveries, bullies, grasshoppers, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, and worms.

5. No person shall use any other bait, or any method, device, or contrivance of any sort or kind whatever, for the purpose of fishing for, taking, catching, or killing trout or perch, except a rod and line, and a landing-net or gaff for fish taken with rod and line.

6. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout or perch; nor shall any of the baits above mentioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

7. No person shall fish without a license; and every person fishing shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, member of the said society, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, member, constable, or person his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout or perch.

8. Every trout or perch not exceeding eight inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, in any of the said waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

10. 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 shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the counties to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ, or trout, or perch, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ, or trout, or perch in order to make sale of the same, without permission in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the said society.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ, or trout, or perch between the twelfth day of April and the first day of October in each year, which period is appointed a close season for all such fish.

13. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

14. 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.

Amending Boundaries of Karaka and Pukekohe East Road Districts, County of Manukau.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of October, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by section twenty of “The Counties Act, 1886” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that all the powers of a County Council relating to the alteration of the boundaries of any road or town districts within a county, or of amalgamating such districts, or of merging any of them into the county, and all other powers in relation to such districts exercisable by the Council by special order or on petition, may be exercised by the Governor in Council in respect of any of the counties in which the said Act is suspended: And whereas the said Act is suspended in the County of Manukau: And whereas, in pursuance of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and “The Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1883,” petitions have been presented to His Excellency the Governor praying him to alter the boundaries of the Karaka and Pukekohe East Road Districts:

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 of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred, the boundaries of the said districts as at present constituted shall cease to be the boundaries of the said districts, and that the boundaries of the said districts shall be those which are specified in the Schedule hereto; and also that the Road Boards of the said districts shall be dissolved upon the said first day of October, one thousand nine hundred; and that the Road Boards of the said districts, as altered by this Order in Council, shall consist of five members for the Karaka Road Board and nine members for the Pukekohe East Road Board; and, further, that the first election of members of the new Boards shall be conducted in accordance with “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876”: and doth, by and with the advice aforesaid, further appoint Octavius Smallfield to be the Clerk and the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the Road Board of the Karaka Road District: and doth appoint Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred, to be the day for holding such first elections; and that the first meeting of the new Board of the said Karaka Road District shall be held at the residence of Robert Gordon, Waiuku Road, Karaka, on Saturday, the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred, at two o’clock in the afternoon: and doth, by and with the advice aforesaid, further appoint Frederick Lauer to be the Clerk and the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the Road Board of the Pukekohe East Road District; and that Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred, be the day for holding such elections; and that the first meeting of the new Board of the said Pukekohe East Road District shall be held at Harrisville Public School Building on Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred, at two o’clock in the afternoon.

SCHEDULE.

KARAKA ROAD DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by Manukau Harbour and Pahurehure, Hingaia, and Slippery Creeks, from the north-western corner of the Whatapaka Native Reserve No. 417N to the Great South Road: thence towards the east generally by a line along the middle of the Great South Road to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Section No. 40, Parish of Opaheke; thence by a right line to the north-eastern corner of the said Section No. 40; thence by the said northern boundary-line and its production to the middle of the stream forming the western boundary of the said Section No. 40; thence by a line along the middle of that stream to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of a subdivision of Section No. 41, Parish of Opaheke, containing 102 acres 1 rood 10 perches, the property of J. Clark; thence by a right line to the northernmost corner of the said subdivision; thence by the said subdivision and by another subdivision of the said Section No. 41, containing 100 acres, the property of Frank Ballard, to the western boundary of the Parish of Opaheke; thence by the said Parish of Opaheke to the south-eastern corner of Section