Aug. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2297

Provided that no lures or baits other than artificial fly
and artificial minnow shall be so used in the following
rivers or streams: The Wainuiomata and its tributaries,
the Wainui tributary of the Whakatiki, the Porirua, the
South Karori, and the Kaiwarra, all in the Hutt County;
the Waikanae and its tributaries, in the Hutt and Horo-
whenua Counties; and the Tiritēa, the Kahutarawa, and
the Tokomaru, near Palmerston North.

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 Sal-
   monidæ or trout between the first day of May and the thirtieth
   day of September in any year, which period is hereby ap-
   pointed 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 the purposes of acclimatisation.

8. 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: Pro-
   vided that nothing herein contained shall extend to prohibit
   the depositing in such stream of débris 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 or perch without a
    license; and every person fishing shall, on the demand of any
    Ranger, constable, officer of the said society, 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 or perch.

11. Every trout not exceeding nine inches in length from
    nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person shall imme-
    diately be returned alive into the water from which the same
    is taken.

12. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other un-
    sportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking,
    catching, or killing trout or perch; 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
    fish in any waters within the district aforesaid, or at the
    mouth or entrance of any river or stream.

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

16. No person shall take or catch more than twenty trout
    in any one day.

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.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded
towards the north-west and north generally by the Counties
of Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay from the mouth of the Wa-
gaehu River to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence
towards the east generally by the summit of that range to
the Feilding and District Acclimatisation District, as de-
scribed in the New Zealand Gazette No. 38, 4th May, 1899;
thence towards the south-west, south-east, and north-east
generally by that district and the Counties of Waipawa and
Patangata to the sea at the mouth of the Waimata River;
and thence again towards the south-east, south, and west
generally by the sea to the Wangaehu River aforesaid:
including adjacent islands (excepting Kapiti). The aforesaid
area comprises the Counties of Hutt, Masterton, Feathers-
ton, Castlepoint, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Eketahuna,
Mauriceville, Akito, Horowhenua, Kairanga, and Rangitikei,
and parts of the Counties of Manawatu and Oroua, together
with the Boroughs of Carterton, Eastbourne, Foxton, Grey-
town, Karori, Levin, Lower Hutt, Marton, Masterton,
Onslow, Palmerston North, Pahiatua, Petone, Taihape, and
City of Wellington.

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 and perch
within the Wellington 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, Acclimatisation Society.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Changing the Purpose of Part of a Reserve in the Wel-
ington Land District.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of August, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for
bridge and ford purposes, being a reserve within Class I of
“The Public Reserves Act, 1881”:

And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be
appropriated for a site for a roadman’s hut, being a reserve
within the said Class I:

Now, therefore, 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, and in
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the
fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth
hereby declare that the said land shall, from and after the
date hereof, be appropriated for a site for a roadman’s hut
under Class I of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 3 roods 34 perches, more or less, being
part of Section No. 9, Block V, Mangaone Survey District.
Bounded towards the north and east by Section No. 8 of
the said Block V, Mangaone Survey District; towards the
south and south-west by the Ngatahaka Stream; and
towards the west and north-west by North Road No. 1:
as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 55652,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at
Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Withdrawing Land from the Operation of “The Kauri-gum
Industry Act, 1898.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of August, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Amendment
Act, 1902” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it
is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council
declare that land set apart under “The Kauri-gum Industry
Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the principal Act”), as a
kauri-gum reserve, and which is no longer required for the
purpose of gum-digging, shall be no longer subject to the
principal Act, and shall thereafter be dealt with by the Land
Board as ordinary Crown land; provided that such Order in
Council shall only be issued in pursuance of a resolution of
the Land Board, supported by such independent evidence
as the Governor in Council deems necessary:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land
District has duly passed a resolution recommending that
the portion of Omapere Kauri-gum Reserve described in
the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operation of the
principal Act, and it is expedient to give effect to such
recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of