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9. No person shall use any bait or lure other than the natural or artificial fly, or natural or artificial minnow, and any small indigenous fish, insects, grasshoppers, beetles, spiders, caterpillars, and creepers. The use of shellfish, koura, or other crustacean. or worms, shall be a breach of this regulation.

10. No person shall use any bait or lure other than the artificial fly in any of the streams following—namely, the Kaituna Stream from Lake Rotoito to the electric-power station at the Okere Falls, the Waimakariri Stream. and the Tahuna-atara or Whangapoa Stream.

11. No license shall be transferable, or be deemed to authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish.

12. The period from the sixteenth day of April to the thirty-first day of October following, both days inclusive, is hereby appointed a close season, during which it shall be unlawful for any person to fish for or take any Salmonidæ or trout, or in any way to injure or disturb the same. No person shall have in his possession any Salmonidæ or trout between the eighteenth day of April and the first day of November following: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to fish taken by officers of the said society for purposes of acclimatisation.

13. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters 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 or waters, 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.

14. No person shall fish for trout without a license; and every person fishing shall, on demand of any Ranger, constable, officer of the said society, or person producing a license, give his true name and place of residence, and on the like demand produce and show to such Ranger, constable, officer, or person his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait or lure used by him for taking, catching, or killing such trout.

15. Every trout not exceeding ten 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.

16. No hand-line, night-line, or cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling trimmer, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, nor shall any of the hereinbefore-mentioned permitted baits be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

17. No fishing of the form known as trolling, or spinning a bait from a boat, launch, or canoe, shall be practised in Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti within a radius of three hundred yards of the mouths of any of the following rivers, springs, or streams flowing into the said lakes, or either of them —viz., the Utuhina, the Fairy Spring, the Ngongotaha, the Waiteti, the Hamurana, the Awahou, and the Ohau Channel.

18. Except as in Regulation 8 is provided, no person shall fish with or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any lake, river, or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream.

19. For the purposes of these regulations, a lake and the mouth of a river or stream shall respectively be deemed to include every outlet of such lake or river or stream respectively, and the seashore between the outlets of any such river or stream, and shall extend over a radius of one quarter of a mile 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.

20. Nothing herein contained, or contained in any license issued under these regulations, shall be deemed to authorise any person to fish for or take Salmonidæ or trout in any of the following streams or waters — namely, the Utuhina Stream, the Fairy Spring, the Ngongotaha Stream, the Waiteti Stream, the Awahou Stream, the Hamurana Spring and Stream — all being streams flowing into Lake Rotorua, except during the period extending from the 1st day of December in any one year to the 28th day of February in the year following, both days inclusive.

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

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

23. Save and except as in the next regulation is expressed, no person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout, or any part thereof.

24. Notwithstanding anything in these or any other regulations contained, it shall be lawful for the said society to purchase trout at Rotorua from holders of licenses, and to sell trout so purchased, and to establish a shop or depot for that purpose, and to appoint a manager or managers thereof: Provided always that the whole of the net profits from such buying and selling shall be devoted by the said society to the purposes of the distribution, rearing, cultivation, and protection of fish in the district of the said society, and an account of the receipts and expenditure of such buying and selling shall be shown in the annual statement of accounts of the said society.

25. No trout shall be sold under the preceding regulation except to residents in the County of Rotorua, and only for consumption in that county. The said society shall keep books showing the name and address of each person from whom and to whom trout are purchased or sold, with the quantity purchased or sold, and the amount paid or received: such books to be open to inspection by any person appointed by the Colonial Secretary. The maximum charge at which trout may be sold by the said society shall be sixpence per pound.

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 within the Auckland Acclimatisation District from the day of 19 , to the day of , 19 , subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made thereunder for the time being in force in the said district.

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

, Secretary, Auckland Acclimatisation Society.

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

Section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” to have Operation in the Cook and Other Islands.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the third section of “The Cook and other Islands Government Act Amendment Act, 1902,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, direct that any of the laws in force in New Zealand proper (other than the laws relating to the sale of alcoholic liquors) shall have operation and be observed in the said Islands, either in whole or with such modifications as may be necessary to adapt them to the conditions and circumstances of the said Islands and the inhabitants thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that section fifty of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” and the regulations now in force thereunder (to wit, the regulations made on the fourth and gazetted on the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and one) shall have operation and be observed in the said Islands, with the modifications shown in the Appendix hereto.

APPENDIX.

The SECTION and REGULATIONS as modified to adapt them to the Conditions and Circumstances of the said Islands and the Inhabitants thereof.

SECTION 50 AS MODIFIED.

No claim by adoption to the estate of any Native inhabitant of the islands subject to “The Cook and other Islands Government Act, 1901,” dying after the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, shall be recognised or given effect to unless such adoption shall have been registered in the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court in accordance with regulations to be made by the Governor in Council.