2066
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purpose of supplying hotels, accommodation- and boarding-houses, and residents within a limit of twenty miles of Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri, within the district of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, the secretary of such society is hereby empowered, but shall not be compelled, to issue under his hand a license to use a net or nets for taking trout in such lakes, or either of them, to any person resident thereat respectively; and for every such license a fee of not exceeding two pounds may be charged for each net specified in such license; and such secretary is hereby authorised to limit the holder of such license to one or more net or nets only.

2. For the above purpose the said lakes, or either of them, may be divided into such areas as such secretary may consider advisable, and every license may describe the limits within which the same is to be used and the number of nets to be employed, or may describe that the same is available for use anywhere in such lakes respectively.

3. The season for netting shall extend from the first day of October in any year to the thirtieth day of April in the following year, both days inclusive.

4. No net with a mesh of less than four inches and a half shall be used, and stake or fixed nets and seine nets for hauling are hereby expressly prohibited.

All trout caught by net under three pounds in weight shall be forthwith returned alive to the water.

5. No nets for the taking of trout shall be used in any of the rivers, streams, or creeks communicating with the said lakes respectively, excepting the Clinton River for one mile distant from its mouth.

6. No salmon, salmon-parr, or smolts shall be taken in any net, and if so taken by accident or otherwise shall be forthwith returned alive to the water.

7. Any person holding a trout-fishing license under the provisions of the existing trout-fishing regulations may fish with rod and line in the said lakes, rivers, or streams respectively, anything contained in these regulations notwithstanding.

8. The Southland Acclimatisation Society, through their officers, rangers, constables, or any other person duly authorised, shall have full power at any time to inspect, examine, and search for any nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or instruments, which, in the opinion of such authorised person, are or have been used or employed for the taking of fish within the said lakes respectively, or the rivers and streams communicating therewith, and to seize and appropriate in the interests of the said society all and every such nets, tackle, engines, or any utensils or instruments so used or employed, and also to seize and appropriate as aforesaid all and every fish caught and in possession of any person during the close season, or in possession of any person who cannot or does not produce, at the time of catching or disposing of such fish, a license under the hand of the secretary aforesaid empowering him in that behalf.

9. The moneys realised by the issue of such netting licenses as aforesaid shall form part of the revenues of the said society, and be accounted for accordingly.

10. Any person offending against any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds, and any licensee convicted of so offending shall upon conviction ipso facto forfeit his license, and the Court by which such penalty is inflicted may declare that any nets, gear, or tackle used in connection with the commission of such offence are also forfeited to the said society, and may be disposed of as it thinks fit.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one thousand five hundred and thirty-one acres, more or less, being the land known as Awarua No. 2A No. 2B, and being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, in favour of Noa te Hinanga and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of mortgage to a lending department of the Government, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one thousand acres, more or less, being the land known as Ngawhakaakupe No. 3B, and being the land comprised in partition order, dated the ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in favour of Wi Hikawera Mahupuku.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Lands from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The