Oct. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2119

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month, at half-past four o'clock p.m., at the office of the Chairman, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and three.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days' notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the first Monday in February in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 213 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 1630, Ellesmere Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a road-line for a distance of about 52 chains 50 links; towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 14510 and 15026 for distances respectively of 23 chains 55 links and 40 chains; towards the south by Section No. 6730 for a distance of 36 chains 54 links; towards the south-east by a road-line for a distance of about 18 chains 50 links, and also by Section No. 15026 for a distance of 6 chains 4 links; towards the west by another road-line for a distance of about 21 chains 50 links: save and except Reserve No. 964, situated in the above-described area: as the same is delineated on the plans deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations for Trout, Carp, and Perch Fishing, Waimarino Acclimatisation District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of September, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same (hereinafter called “the said Acts”), 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 all that part of the colony known as “the Waimarino Acclimatisation District,” as the same is defined in the said regulations, and the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith.

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout, carp, and perch in all waters within that district or part of the North Island known as “the Waimarino Acclimatisation District,” which includes the County of Waimarino, may be issued under the hand of the secretary of the Waimarino Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed “the said society”), or any one authorised by the said secretary in that behalf, and such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in every acclimatisation district from the first day of October in any one year to the fifteenth day of April in the year following, subject to the said Acts, and any special regulations made thereunder in force in any such district affecting any particular stream, river, or water therein: Provided that the secretary may refuse to issue a license to any person who within the previous two years has been convicted of any breach of the provisions of any Act relating to fishing for trout, carp, or perch, or of any regulation made thereunder.

2. Licenses available in any acclimatisation district throughout New Zealand may be issued at the following rates:—

Licenses for men: Twenty shillings for the whole season; five shillings for one month; and two shillings and sixpence for one week.

Licenses for women, and for boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years: Ten shillings for the whole season; three shillings for one month; or one shilling and sixpence for one week.

3. Any holder of a license may fish with one rod and line for trout, carp, or perch, and may use a landing-net or gaff to secure any trout, carp, or perch caught with such rod and line.

4. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that with natural or artificial fly, insect, worm, or fish only.

5. No person shall have in his possession any of the Salmonidae or trout between the eighteenth day of April and the thirtieth day of September, which period is hereby appointed a close season for all such fish: Provided always that this regulation shall not apply to fish caught by the officers of the said society for purposes of acclimatisation.

6. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or refuse from a flax-mill, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

7. No person shall fish for trout, carp, or perch 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 such trout, carp, or perch.

8. Every trout not exceeding 9 in. 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 cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, carp, or perch; nor shall any of the above-mentioned baits be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

10. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any river or stream within the district aforesaid.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout, carp, or perch, or any part thereof.

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

13. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against these regulations, the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations for Trout and Perch Fishing, Wairoa Acclimatisation District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of September, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same (hereinafter called “the said Acts”), 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 Wairoa Acclimatisation District, as appointed by Warrant dated the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the third day of October, one