3488 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 104

the Waipoua Riding of the Hokianga County, and the
boroughs and town districts situated therein (hereinafter
called “the said district”), and the waters thereof; and
doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from
the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand
Gazette, supersede any regulations at variance therewith:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for Salmonidæ or trout in all waters
   within the said district shall be issued under the hand of the
   secretary of the Hobson Acclimatisation Society (hereinafter
   termed “the said society”), or any one duly authorised by
   such secretary in that behalf. Such licenses shall be whole-
   season licenses.

2. Every such whole-season license shall entitle the holder
   thereof to fish as aforesaid in all waters of the said district
   for a period extending from the first day of November in any
   one year to the thirtieth day of April in the year following,
   both days included, subject, however, to the special limita-
   tions and restrictions hereinafter provided.

3. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred upon holders
   of such aforesaid licenses shall be exercised subject to the
   provisions of the said Acts, and to the regulations made or
   hereafter to be made thereunder during the currency of such
   licenses, and to regulations made or hereafter to be made as
   aforesaid in force in or affecting any particular acclimatisa-
   tion district, or having special reference to any particular
   water, stream, river, or lake: Provided always that the
   secretary of the said society, or any person authorised by him
   as aforesaid, shall not be compelled to issue a license to any
   person who within two years previously to the date of his
   application therefor has been convicted or shall have been
   convicted of any breach of the provisions of the said Act or
   the regulations thereunder, or of any Act relating to Sal-
   monidæ or trout-fishing, or any regulations thereunder.

4. Licenses shall be issued by the said society at the
   following rates: For men—whole-season licenses, twenty
   shillings; for women—whole-season licenses, five shillings;
   for boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years
   —whole-season licenses, five shillings. Such licenses shall
   be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Schedule
   hereto.

5. The holder of any such license as aforesaid may fish as
   aforesaid with one rod and line only, and may use a landing-
   net or gaff to secure any Salmonidæ or trout caught with
   such rod and line.

6. No person shall use any bait or lure other than the
   natural or artificial fly, or natural or artificial minnow, and
   any small indigenous fish, insect, grasshopper, beetle, spider,
   caterpillar, or creeper. The use of shellfish, koura, or other
   crustacean, or of worms, shall be a breach of this regulation.

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

8. The period from the first day of May in one year to the
   thirty-first day of October in the year following, both days
   inclusive, is hereby appointed a close season, during which
   it shall be unlawful for any person to fish for or to take
   Salmonidæ or trout, or to in any way injure or disturb the
   same. No person shall have in his possession, whether
   frozen, chilled, or otherwise, any Salmonidæ or trout between
   the fifth day of May in one year and the first day of Novem-
   ber in the year following: Provided that this regulation
   shall not apply to any fish taken by officers of the Govern-
   ment or by officers of the said society for purposes of accli-
   matisation.

9. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters
   in the said district in which Salmonidæ or trout exist or have
   been liberated, nor shall allow to flow into or place in or
   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: Provided that nothing herein contained
   shall extend to or prohibit the depositing in any such stream
   or waters of débris from any mining claim.

10. No person shall fish for Salmonidæ or trout without a
    license; and every person fishing in any such waters shall,
    on demand of any Ranger, constable, officer of the said
    society, or person producing a license to fish issued in New
    Zealand, give his true name and place of residence, either
    permanent or for the time being, and on the like demand pro-
    duce and show to such Ranger, constable, officer of the said
    society, or person producing a license as aforesaid, his license
    to fish, and the contents of his creel, bag, or other receptacle
    for carrying fish, and also the bait or lure used or intended
    to be used by him for taking, catching, or killing such
    Salmonidæ or trout.

11. Every trout not exceeding ten inches in length from
    tip of nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person shall
    immediately be returned alive, with as little damage or hurt
    as possible, into the water from which the same has been
    taken.

12. No hand-line, night-line, or cross-line fishing, stroke-
    hauling, trimmer, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall
    be used for the purpose of taking or attempting to take,
    catch, kill, or capture Salmonidæ or trout, nor shall any of
    the hereinbefore-mentioned permitted baits or lures be pre-
    pared or used with any medicated or chemical preparation
    whatever.

13. Except as provided in Regulation 6, no person shall
    fish with or use any net or engine, instrument, or device of
    any kind whatever for taking or attempting to take fish in
    any lake, river, or stream within the said district, or at the
    mouth or entrance of any such lake, river, or stream.

14. For the purposes of these regulations a lake and the
    mouth of a river or stream shall respectively be deemed to
    include every outlet of such lake, river, or stream respec-
    tively, and the sea-shore between the outlets of any such
    river or stream, and shall extend over a radius of one-
    quarter of a mile from the point or line where the waters of
    such river, lake, 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 Salmonidæ
    or trout, or any portion thereof.

16. Any person convicted of any offence against these
    regulations shall have his license to fish (if any) confiscated,
    and such license (if any) shall thereupon become null and
    void.

17. The penalty for every breach of any of these regula-
    tions shall not be less than forty shillings and not more
    than fifty pounds.

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SCHEDULE.

“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 Salmonidæ or
trout within the Hobson 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 , 1907.
, Secretary, Hobson Acclimatisation Society.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vesting Management of the Wharf in Pelorus River in
Messrs. Brownlee and Co., of Havelock.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth
day of December, 1907.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Harbours Act,
1878,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council
may vest the management of any wharf the property of His
Majesty in any local governing body or person, upon such
terms and conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit:
And whereas it is thought desirable to vest the manage-
ment of the wharf in Pelorus River, Havelock Harbour, in
John William Brownlee, Jessie Brownlee, Robert Brownlee,
and William Hadfield Smith, of Havelock, trading under the
firm or style of “Brownlee and Co.” (and hereinafter called
“Brownlee and Co.”), on the terms and conditions herein set
forth:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and
in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested
in him by the said fourteenth section of “The Harbours Act,
1878,” and of all other powers and authorities in anywise
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby vest, as from the
date hereof, the management of the wharf in Pelorus River,
Havelock Harbour, which is shown on plans marked
M.D. 988 and 989, and deposited in the office of the Marine
Department, in Brownlee and Co., subject to the following
conditions:—

1. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall extend and apply only to the parts of the
   foreshore and of the land below low-water mark necessary
   for the erection of such wharf, which are shown on the said
   plans marked M.D. 988 and 989.
2. In consideration of the concessions and privileges
   granted by this Order in Council, Brownlee and Co. shall, on
   being supplied with a copy thereof, pay to the Minister the
   sum of two pounds ten shillings, and thereafter an annual