May 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1373

Prohibiting Trawling in a Portion of the Hauraki Gulf.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1907.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifth section of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein, for, amongst other things, prescribing conditions and restrictions for the regulation of fishing and the taking of fish, and for prohibiting the use of any particular engines, tackles, or apparatus for taking any fish:

And whereas it is desirable to prohibit the taking of fish by trawling and the use of trawl-nets in a portion of the Hauraki Gulf:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act:—

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall haul or use a trawl-net for the purpose of taking fish in that portion of the Hauraki Gulf which is bounded on the north by a line extending from the north head of Cabbage Bay to the southernmost point of Tiri Island, and generally on the north-east by a line extending from the said southernmost point of Tiri Island to the right bank at the mouth of the Matakana River; as the said portion of the Hauraki Gulf is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 3051, deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

2. Clause 18 of the regulations which were made by the Governor in Council under the said Act on the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirty-first day of the same month, is hereby revoked.

3. Any person committing a breach of clause 1 of these regulations is liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding twenty pounds.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Officer under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Wellington District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1907.

IT is hereby notified that

ERNEST HARRISON HOWAN,

of Foxton, has been appointed to be an Officer for the purposes of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name: District.
ALBERT ERNEST MOORE .. .. Tokatoka.
GEORGE HENRY FRANK .. .. Brunner.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Consul-General and Vice-Consul of Norway, at Melbourne, for Australia and New Zealand appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secre-

tary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequaturs empowering

OTTO RÖMCKE, Esq., and
HANS JÖRGEN GUNDERSEN, Esq.,

to act as Consul-General and Vice-Consul respectively of Norway, at Melbourne, for the Commonwealth of Australia and the Colony of New Zealand and the adjacent islands, have received His Majesty’s signature.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Wellington District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ERNEST HARRISON HOWAN

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Wellington.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Under-Secretary for Native Department appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 29th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS WILLIAM FISHER, Esq.,

to be Under-Secretary for the Native Department, as from the 1st day of April, 1907, in the place of Herbert Frank Edger, Esq., resigned.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Appointing Official Member of Ngatiwhatua District Maori Council under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

Native Department,
Wellington, 1st May, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE AMOS TAPP, of Helensville,

to be official member of the Ngatiwhatua District Maori Council, under the provisions of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” vice John Watt, removed.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Members of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ANGUS GORDON and
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Manukau.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.

Marshal of Colonial Court of Admiralty appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st May, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES ROLAND COLYER, Esq.,

to be Marshal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty at Invercargill.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.