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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 the Advances to Settlers Office Superintendent, the blocks or parcels of land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 1,466 acres 3 roods 25 perches, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Oruamatua-Kaimanawa No. 1J, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 24th day of September, 1897, in favour of Rota Tiatia.

All that parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 892 acres, more or less, and known as Awarua 2c No. 20, being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 15th day of August, 1896, in favour of Erueti Arani and another.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Extension of Time for taking Poll under Rating on Unimproved Value Acts, County of Southland.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the poll demanded by the ratepayers of the County of Southland under “The Rating on Unimproved Value Act, 1896,” cannot be taken within the time fixed by the said Act:

And whereas the said Act is to be read and construed together with “The Rating Act, 1894”:

And whereas by the said “Rating Act, 1894,” it is provided that the Governor in Council may extend the time for doing anything required to be done within a fixed time, and it is expedient to extend the time for taking the said poll as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating on Unimproved Value Act, 1896,” and “The Rating Act, 1894,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for taking the poll demanded by the ratepayers of the County of Southland under “The Rating on Unimproved Value Act, 1896,” until Saturday, the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; and doth hereby order and declare that the said poll shall be taken on that day accordingly in like manner in all respects as if that day had been duly fixed and notified in manner provided by section five of that Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations for Trout, &c., Fishing, County of Westland Acclimatisation District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1902.

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 County of Westland Acclimatisation District—a district duly appointed under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880”—and the waters thereof, except as hereinafter mentioned; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect on and after the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout in all the waters of the County of Westland Acclimatisation District (with the exception of the Kanieri River, in which fishing is prohibited) will be issued by the Secretary of the Westland Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings shall be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the said Secretary to issue a license: Provided further that it shall be lawful for the said Secretary to issue licenses for the whole season to women for the sum of five shillings each; and to boys under sixteen years of age for the sum of ten shillings each; and to men, on and after the twentieth day of December in any year, for the sum of twelve shillings and sixpence each.

2. Licenses when issued as aforesaid for the whole season 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 fifteenth day of April in the year following; 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 except during the abovementioned period.

4. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with rod and line only, and with the following baits: Natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow and any small indigenous fish, grasshoppers, beetles, 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, except a rod or 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; nor shall any of the baits abovementioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

7. No person shall take or attempt to take trout without a license; and every person taking or attempting to take trout shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, 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.

8. Every trout not exceeding nine 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. This shall not apply to débris or tailings from mining claims.

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 abovenamed taken by accident or otherwise shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person other than is provided by the regulations for taking lake trout shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, or have in his possession for purpose of sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ, trout, perch, tench, or carp, or take, or fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ, trout, perch, tench, or carp, in order to make sale of same.

12. Any fish-dealer having on his business premises any of the salmonidæ, trout, perch, tench, or carp, shall be deemed to have them in his possession for the purpose of sale.