Numb. 43.

Declaring Auckland Oyster-fishery, and Subdivisions within which Oysters may and may not be taken.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section fifteen of "The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894," I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29, on the south head of Whangaruru Harbour, and the northernmost point of the south head of Tairua Harbour, including the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of any islands situated between the said points on the south head of Whangaruru Harbour and the south head of Tairua Harbour, excepting the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of the Island of Kawau, to be an oyster-fishery under the name of "the Auckland Oyster-fishery"; and I do hereby divide the same into four subdivisions, namely:—

1. The Whangarei Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the easternmost point of Bream Head and the eastern boundary-line of Section 91, Block I., Mangawai Survey District, on Bream Tail.

2. The Auckland North Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of the coast of the mainland and of the islands adjacent thereto situated between the eastern boundary-line of Section 91, Block I., Mangawai Survey District, Bream Tail, and a line drawn from the easternmost part of Gull Point to low-water mark ordinary spring tides of the southern end of Tiritiri Island, produced thence to meridian 175° east : excepting therefrom the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Kawau Island.

3. The Auckland South-eastern Subdivision, which shall include all the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of the coast of the mainland and of the islands adjacent thereto between the southern boundary of the Auckland North Subdivision and a line drawn from the north-eastern boundary of that subdivision to the northernmost point of Cape Colville, and thence generally in a south-easterly direction to the northernmost point of the south head of Tairua Harbour.

4. The Great Barrier Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Great Barrier Island.

And I do hereby further declare and prescribe that it shall be lawful to take oysters within the period prescribed in that behalf in the Auckland North Subdivision aforesaid; and that it shall be unlawful to take oysters in the Whangarei, Auckland South-eastern, and Great Barrier Subdivisions of the oyster-fishery aforesaid ; and, further, that the said oyster-fishery and the several subdivisions thereof shall be marked out by distinguishing posts or marks (to be approved by the Collector of Customs at the Port of Auckland), in the manner provided by section twenty-six of the said Act as nearly as may be.

The Warrant defining the Auckland Oyster-fishery, dated the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month, is hereby revoked.

This Warrant shall have force and effect from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Marine.

Crown Land reserved under "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903."

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint such suitable persons, not exceeding five, as he thinks fit to be a Commission under the said Act; such Commission may, if it deems necessary, inspect any lands possessing scenic or historic interest, or on which there are thermal springs, and shall make inquiries respecting the same and report to the Governor, and shall from time to time recommend what lands, whether Crown, private, or Native lands, in their opinion should be permanently reserved as scenic, thermal, or historic reserves; and that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation, declare