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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 78

Waitaki-Waimate, Otago, Lake County, and Southland Acclimatisation Societies (hereinafter termed “the said societies”), or any one authorised by either of such secretaries in that behalf: Provided that any 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 or perch, or of any regulation made thereunder.

2. The fee to be charged for a license as aforesaid to each male person over the age of sixteen years shall be one pound, and every such license shall be in the form set forth in the First Schedule hereto. Single-river licenses, authorising the holder to fish in one specified river or stream, may be issued on payment of the sum of ten shillings for each such license. Licenses may also be issued to boys attending school or under the age of sixteen, or to women, at a reduced fee of five shillings for each license so issued: Provided that it shall be lawful for any secretary, or his deputy, in any case where application is made for a license on or after the first day of January in any year, to issue a license to any man for the sum of twelve shillings and sixpence, but so that such license shall extend only from the time of granting the same until the termination of the then trout-fishing season. No license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

3. The secretary of either of the said societies may issue day licenses to bonâ fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day’s fishing.

4. Any holder of a license may fish for trout in the above-named waters from the first day of October in any year to the thirtieth day of April in the following year, both inclusive; but every such license shall be for one season only, and shall expire on the thirtieth day of April following the date on which it was issued.

5. Trout, perch, and tench shall not be fished for, taken, or killed otherwise than with one rod and line, but a landing-net or gaff may be used to secure any trout, perch, or tench caught with such rod and line; and no lures or baits other than natural or artificial flies, insects, worms, or fish shall be used with such rod and line.

6. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish.

7. No person shall have in his possession any of the Salmonidæ or trout between the first day of May and the thirtieth day of September in any year, 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.

8. No person shall cast or throw into any stream in which trout or salmon exist or have been liberated, or shall allow to flow into or place near the bank or margin of any such stream, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, lime, sheep-dip, flax-mill refuse, or any other matter or liquid that is noxious, poisonous, or injurious to fish: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to prohibit the depositing in such stream of debris from any mining claim.

9. 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 or otherwise shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

10. No person shall fish for trout, perch, or tench without a license; and every person fishing shall, on the demand of any Ranger, constable, officer of the said societies, or of any person producing a license, produce and show to such Ranger, officer, 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, perch, or tench.

11. 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.

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

13. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net, or any instrument, or device, or means for taking trout, perch, or tench in any river or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream: Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the placing of any net, other than a stake net, in or across the parts of the rivers mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, or render any person liable to any penalty for so doing, or for taking indigenous fish by such means.

14. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of every such river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of five hundred yards from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low water.

15. Licenses to fish for perch and tench only in all the waters of the Southern Acclimatisation District from the first day of December in any one year to the thirtieth day of April in the following year may be issued by either of the secretaries of the Marlborough, North Canterbury, Ashburton, South Canterbury, Geraldine, Waitaki-Waimate, Otago, Lake County, and Southland Acclimatisation Societies, and for any such license a fee of five shillings shall be paid: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon any of the said secretaries to issue a license: Provided further that a license to fish for trout shall be deemed to include permission, subject to these regulations, to fish for perch or tench.

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

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

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

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO FISH.

“Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and Amendments.

THE holder of this license [Name in full], of [Address], [Calling or occupation], having this day paid the sum of __, is hereby authorised to fish for trout, perch, and tench within the Southern Acclimatisation District from the __ day of __, 19, to the __ day of __, 19____, subject to the regulations for the time being in force in the said district.

Dated at __, this __ day of __, 19____.

__, Secretary, __ Acclimatisation Society.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THE mouth or entrance of the Ashley River, or at any place in such river seaward of a straight line drawn from the southernmost corner of Rural Section No. 716, Rangiora Survey District, on the northern bank of the said Ashley River, thence through the south-easternmost corner of Rural Section No. 23889, Rangiora Survey District, to a point on the southern bank of the said Ashley River. The mouth or entrance of the Waikouaiti River, or at any place in such river below the place at which the railway from Christchurch to Dunedin crosses the said river. The mouth or entrance of the Kakanui, Waihemo, and Pleasant Rivers, or at any place in any such rivers not being more than a mile from the mouth or entrance thereof. The mouth or entrance of the Aparima or Jacob’s River, or at any place in such river below the place at which the Riverton Bridge crosses the said river.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout and Perch Fishing, Wellington Acclimatisation District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of September, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and its amendments, 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 Wellington Acclimatisation District and 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 for the said district at variance therewith, and such regulations are hereby revoked.

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout and perch in all waters within that district or part of the North Island known as the Wellington Acclimatisation District, as described in the Schedule hereto, may be issued under the hand of the secretary of the