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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Amending Regulations for Trout, Perch, and Tench Fishing in the Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of September, 1908.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the Canterbury Acclimatisation District (hereinafter called “the said district”), which said district comprises the Counties of Cheviot, Ashley, Selwyn, Mount Herbert, and Akaroa, the City of Christchurch, and all the boroughs and town districts situated in the said district:—

1. No lures or baits other than artificial fly and artificial minnow shall be used in the following rivers during the months of October and November, namely: The Avon, from the watercourse near the bend on the Riccarton Road to the Carlton Bridge, and the Selwyn, from the Selwyn Railway (South Line) Bridge to the railway-bridge at Ellesmere.

2. Fishing is prohibited in the Avon from the watercourse near the bend on the Riccarton Road through the city to the bridge at Colombo Street.

3. Any regulation regarding the number or weight of trout which a person may take or catch in any one day or other specified period which has been made by general regulations under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and its amendments, shall not apply to the said district.

4. Every license to fish issued by the said Canterbury Acclimatisation Society shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

No. . No. .

SOUTHERN ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

Available throughout New Zealand.

General License to fish, Season 1908–9.

(Not transferable.)

THE holder of this license, M , of (age ), having this day paid the sum of , is hereby authorised to fish for trout and other acclimatised fish in every acclimatisation district—trout from the 1st day of October, 1908, to the 30th day of April, 1909, and perch and tench from the 1st day of December, 1908, to the 30th day of April, 1909, following—subject to general regulations in force for the time being, and subject also to the local regulations.

Dated at Christchurch, this day of , 190 .

Secretary, Canterbury Acclimatisation Society,
Canterbury Hall, Christchurch.

SOUTHERN ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT.

Season 1908–9.

Name: .

Address: .

Age: .

received by .

Date: , 190 .

1. This license must be produced on demand of any Ranger, officer, constable, or person producing a license, and the holder hereof must permit any such person to examine his creel or bag, and the bait he is using.

2. No trout under 9 in. may be taken or killed by any person. This license does not entitle the holder thereof to catch for sale any fish.

3. No fishing is allowed this season in any part of the Avon from the watercourse near the bend of the river at the Riccarton Road through the city to the Colombo Street Bridge, and no fishing other than with artificial fly or minnow from the same point—viz., watercourse near the bend on the Riccarton Road—to the Carlton Bridge during the months of October and November. No fishing except with artificial fly or minnow allowed in the Selwyn River from the Selwyn Railway (South Line) Bridge to the Ellesmere Railway-bridge during the months of October and November. Fishing in Victoria Lake and Horseshoe Lake is absolutely prohibited.

4. The breach of these or any other regulations renders the offender liable to a fine of not less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

Any licensed angler catching any salmon must immediately return same to the water.

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

Appointment of Trustees, Wanganui (Putiki) Rifle Range Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Defence Act, 1908” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN PATON WATT, V.D., 2nd Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Rifle Volunteers;

Lieutenant-Colonel JAMES PATON WATT, 1st Regiment, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers; and

Major ROBERT HUGHES, V.D., 2nd Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Rifle Volunteers,

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District being portions of Whakapaki No. 2, Onetere No. 3, Onetere No. 2, Onetere No. 4, and Onetere No. 1, Block V,

Ikitara Survey District, containing together 64 acres and 20 perches, more or less; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D. 20886 and 23907, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red, yellow, red, yellow, and green respectively: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a rifle range for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Act. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Wanganui (Putiki) Rifle Range Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.