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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

Declaring Auckland Oyster-fishery, and Portions in which it is lawful and unlawful to take Oysters.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS it is, amongst other things, enacted by the fifteenth section of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” that the Governor may from time to time declare any bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony to be an oyster-fishery, and prescribe the subdivisions thereof wherein it shall be lawful and unlawful to take oysters:

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the Governor, dated the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth day of the same month, the Auckland Oyster-fishery was constituted and divided into subdivisions:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said Warrant, and to make another in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby revoke and determine the said Warrant of the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, and doth hereby declare the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29 on the South Head of Whangaruru Harbour and the northernmost point of the South Head of Tairua Harbour, including the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of any islands situated between the said points on the South Head of Whangaruru Harbour and the South Head of Tairua Harbour, excepting the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of the Island of Kawau, to be an oyster-fishery under the name of “the Auckland Oyster-fishery”; and I do hereby divide the same into eight subdivisions, namely:—

1. The Whangarei Subdivision, which shall include the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between a point on high-water mark of the sea due east of Trig. Station No. 29 on the South Head of Whangaruru Harbour and the section boundary-line of Section 91, Block I, Mangawai Survey District, on Bream Tail.

2. 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.

3. The Mahurangi Subdivision, which shall include all bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the north-easternmost point of Mullet Point and the north-easternmost point of Gull Point.

4. The Rangitoto Subdivision, which shall include all bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the north-easternmost point of Gull Point and the north-easternmost point of East Tamaki Head, and inside a line drawn from the last-mentioned point to a point two miles north-east of the David Rocks, and inside a line drawn from that point to the north-easternmost point of Gull Point.

5. The South-eastern Subdivision, which shall include all bays, estuaries, and tidal waters situated between the north-easternmost point of East Tamaki Head and the south-western point of Hautapu Point, Coromandel Peninsula.

6. 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.

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

8. 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 Rangitoto Subdivision aforesaid, and that it shall be unlawful to take oysters in the Whangarei, Auckland North, Mahurangi, South-eastern, Cabbage Bay, 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-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

WM. HALL-JONES.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.