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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

upon a running line attached to a rod and reel; nor shall
any set rod or line be used for taking trout in any of the
waters aforesaid.

5. No person shall use any bait or lure other than
   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.

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

7. No person shall take, fish for, or catch any Salmonidæ
   or trout, or in any way injure or disturb the same, between
   the first day of May and the thirty-first day of October in
   any year, which period is hereby appointed a close season for
   all such fish. No person shall have in his possession any
   Salmonidæ or trout between the fifth day of May and the
   first day of November following, whether frozen, chilled, or
   not: Provided always that this regulation shall not apply
   to fish caught by the General Manager, or his appointee, for
   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 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 re-
   turned 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 Department of Tourist and Health
    Resorts, or of any person producing a license, give his true
    name and place of residence, and, on the like demand, pro-
    duce 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 ten inches in length from
    nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person shall im-
    mediately 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; 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
    Salmonidæ or trout in any lake, river, or stream within the
    district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such
    river or stream.

14. 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.

15. 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—viz., 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, ex-
    cept during the period extending from the 1st day of De-
    cember in any one year to the thirty-first day of March in
    the year following, both days inclusive.

16. 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.

17. No person shall take or catch more than thirty pounds
    weight of trout in any one day.

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

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

20. Any holder of a license to fish for trout issued by or
    on behalf of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society before
    the coming into force of these regulations may fish in the
    waters of the Rotorua Acclimatisation District subject to
    the regulations under which such license was issued, except
    so far as such regulations are expressly modified or amended
    by these regulations.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area bounded towards the north by Tauranga
County; towards the east generally by Whakatane, Wairoa,
and Hawke’s Bay Counties; towards the south by Hawke’s
Bay and Waimarino Counties; and towards the north-west
generally by Clifton County from the northernmost corner of
Waimarino County to the summit of Rangitoto Mountain;
thence by a right line to the summit of Puwhenua Moun-
tain, at the easternmost corner of Piako County; and thence
by the said Piako County to the southern boundary of Tau-
ranga County aforesaid.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

MEN’S [WOMEN’S] [BOYS’] [HALF-SEASON] [DAY] LICENSE
TO FISH.

“Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and Amendments.

THE holder of this license [Name in full], of [Address], [Call-
ing or occupation], having this day paid the sum of
, is hereby authorised to fish for trout within the Rotorua
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.

………………, General Manager, Department of
Tourist and Health Resorts.

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

Exchanging a Reserve in Hawke’s Bay for other Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
first day of January, 1907.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of
the Schedule hereto was permanently reserved for
forest purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the
Governor, it is expedient to exchange the said land for
that described in the second column of the Schedule hereto:

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 reserve described in the
first column of the Schedule hereto is hereby exchanged for
the land described in the second column of the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ing by admeasurement 1,142 acres, more or less, being Section No. 1, Block X, Hangaroa Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Bushy Knoll Road; towards the south-east by the Tauwhare-
toi No. 3 Block; towards the south-west and again to-
wards the south-east by the Tauwharetoi No. 4 Block; and towards the west by Sec-
tion No. 5, Block IX, of the said district: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 48191/75A, de-
posited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wel-
ington, and thereon coloured red. | All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 2,150 acres, more or less, being Section No. 1, Block XII, Moanui Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 2 of said Block XII, 30892·9 links; towards the south by the Moanui Road, 13438·8 links; and towards the west gene-
rally by Small Grazing-run No. 90, 33856·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is de-
lineated on the plan marked S.G. 55236, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. |

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