✨ Oyster Fishery Regulations




  1. The Auckland North Subdivision, which shall include
    the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the
    section boundary-line of Section 91, Block I, Mangawai
    Survey District, on Bream Tail, and the north-easternmost
    point of Mullet Point.

  2. The Mahurangi Subdivision, which shall include all
    bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the north-
    easternmost point of Mullet Point and the north-eastern-
    most point of Wanga Point on the Whangaparoa Peninsula.

  3. The Southern Subdivision, which shall include all bays,
    estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the north-
    easternmost point of Wanga Point, Whangaparoa Peninsula,
    and the south-western point of Hautapu Point, Coro-
    mandel Peninsula.

  4. The Cabbage Bay Subdivision, which shall include all
    bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the south-
    western point of Hautapu Point and the northernmost
    point of Cape Colville.

  5. The Eastern Subdivision, which shall include all bays,
    estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the northern-
    most point of Cape Colville and the northernmost point of
    the South Head of Tairua Harbour.

  6. The Great Barrier Subdivision, which shall include all
    bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Great Barrier Island.
    And His Excellency the Governor doth further declare and
    prescribe that it shall be lawful to take oysters within the
    period prescribed in that behalf in the Mahurangi and
    Cabbage Bay Subdivisions aforesaid, and that it shall be
    unlawful to take oysters in the Whangarei, Auckland North,
    Southern, Eastern, and Great Barrier Subdivisions of the
    oyster-fishery aforesaid; and further that the said oyster-
    fishery and the several subdivisions 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.
    This Warrant shall have force and effect from the date
    of the publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
    As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
    this twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine
    hundred and six.
    ALBERT-PITT,
    For Minister of Marine.
    By Authority: John MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington.




Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1906, No 33





✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🌾 Declaring Auckland Oyster-fishery and Subdivisions (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
28 April 1906
Oyster fishery, Auckland region, Geographical boundaries, Subdivisions, Whangarei, Tairua Harbour, Mahurangi, Cabbage Bay, Great Barrier Island
  • ALBERT-PITT, For Minister of Marine