Sept. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2409

Revoking Portion of Proclamation declaring Educational Endowments in Otago to be subject to “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

(t.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the two-hundred-and-forty-third section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby revoke a Proclamation bringing the lands referred to therein under the provisions of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” and dated the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, in so far as it relates to the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Regulations for Trout-fishing, Nelson Acclimatisation District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1906.

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 that part of the South Island comprised within the Counties of Waimea, Collingwood, and Takaka, and the boroughs and town districts situated therein (hereinafter called “the Nelson Acclimatisation District”), 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 in all the waters of the Nelson Acclimatisation District may be issued by the secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter termed “the said society”), or any one authorised by such secretary in that behalf: Provided that the 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 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 Schedule hereto. 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. No license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent: Provided that it shall be lawful for the said 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 only extend from the time of granting the same until the termination of the then trout-fishing season.

3. The secretary of the said society 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 thirty-first day of March in the following year, both inclusive; but every such license shall be for one season only, and shall expire on the thirty-first day of March following the date on which it was issued.

5. Trout 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 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 April 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 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.

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; 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 in any river or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such 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 trout, or any part thereof.

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

17. The number of trout allowed to be taken by any one angler in one day must not exceed twenty.

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.