Oct. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3877

Manager in that behalf; provided that the General Manager,
or his appointee, may refuse to issue a license to any person
who within the previous two years has been convicted of
any breach of the provisions of any Act relating to fishing
for trout, or of any regulation made thereunder.

2. The fee to be charged for a license as aforesaid to each
   male person over the age of sixteen years shall be £1.
   Licenses may also be issued to boys attending school or
   under the age of sixteen, or to women, at a reduced fee
   of 5s. for each license so issued; provided that it shall be
   lawful for the said General Manager, or his appointee, in
   any case where application is made for a license on or after
   the 1st February in any year, to issue a license to any
   man for the sum of 12s. 6d., but so that such license
   shall extend only from the time of granting the same
   until the termination of the then trout-fishing season. No
   license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any
   person without his consent. The General Manager, or his
   appointee, may issue to any one applying for the same a
   monthly license on payment of a fee of 12s. 6d. for each
   month's fishing, a weekly license on payment of a fee of
   7s. 6d. for each week's fishing, or a day license on payment
   of a fee of 2s. 6d. for each day's fishing.

3. Any holder of a license may fish for trout in the above-
   named waters from the 1st November in any year to the
   31st May in the following year, both inclusive; but every
   such license shall be for one season only, and shall expire on
   the 31st May following the date on which it was issued,
   subject, however, to the special limitations and restrictions
   hereinafter mentioned.

4. Trout shall not be fished for, taken, or killed otherwise
   than with one rod and line; but a landing-net or gaff may
   be used to secure any trout caught with such rod and
   line. No lures or baits shall be used other than the natural
   or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow, any small
   indigenous fish, insect, grasshopper, beetle, or spider, and
   any form of spoon bait, and such lures or baits shall only be
   used upon a running line attached to a rod and reel. No
   set rod or line shall be used for taking trout in any of the
   waters aforesaid. The use of the shell-fish koura, worms,
   the creeper, and the huhu or matai grub as baits shall be a
   breach of the regulations.

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 Rotoiti to the electric power
   station at the Okere Falls, the Waimakariri, Waitahanui,
   and Tahana-a-ra Streams, and the Ohau Channel.

6. No person shall spin or troll in any stream, spring, or
   river flowing into or from Lakes Rotorua, Rotoiti, Ro-
   toehu, Rotoma, Rotokakahi, Tarawera, and Taupo, nor
   within a radius of 300 yards, shore to shore, from the centre
   of the said streams or outlets or inlets of any of them, all of
   such being reserved for fly fishing only.

7. No person shall use any bait or lure other than artificial
   fly within a radius of 300 yards from Te Ngae sunken
   reef in Lake Rotorua, as indicated by posts in the water.

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

9. No person shall take, fish for, or catch any Salmonidae
   or trout, or in any way injure or disturb the same, between
   the 1st June and the 31st October in any year, which
   period is hereby appointed a close season for all such fish.
   No person shall have in his possession any Salmonidae or
   trout between the 5th June and the 1st November following,
   except as provided for by the regulations regarding keeping
   trout in freezing or cool chambers after close of season,
   which were made by the Governor in Council on the 6th Oc-
   tober, 1908, on the 6th September, 1909, and on the 8th
   June, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of
   the 8th October, 1908, the 16th September, 1909, and the
   11th June, 1914, respectively. Provided always that this
   regulation shall not apply to fish caught by the General
   Manager, or his appointee, or officers of the Marine Depart-
   ment, or officers of the Department of Internal Affairs, for
   purposes of acclimatization.

10. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or
    waters, or shall allow to flow into or place near the bank or
    margin of any stream or waters, any sawdust or sawmill re-
    fuse, 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 débris from any mining
    claim.

11. 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.

12. 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,
produce 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.

13. Every trout not exceeding 10 in. 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.

14. No cross-line or hand-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or
    any other unsportsmanlike 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.

15. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use
    any net, or any instrument, or device, or means for taking
    Salmonidae or trout in any lake, river, or stream within the
    district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such
    river or stream; provided that nothing contained in this
    clause shall apply to the Under-Secretary of the Depart-
    ment of Internal Affairs, or to any person authorized in
    writing by the said Under-Secretary to net fish on behalf of
    the Department.

16. Nothing herein contained, or contained in any license
    issued under these regulations, shall be deemed to authorize
    any person to fish for or take Salmonidae or trout from the
    Wairoa Stream between the waterfalls and Lake Tarawera.

17. 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; provided always that it shall be
    lawful for any person to buy and sell fresh trout and smoked
    trout taken and branded by or under the direction of the
    Department of Internal Affairs.

18. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations
    shall not be less than £1 or more than £50.

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 and shall be returned to the
    General Manager.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area bounded towards the north generally by
Tauranga County from the north-eastern boundary of Mata-
mata County to the sea; thence by the sea to the north-
western corner of Opotiki County; thence towards the east
by Opotiki County to its south-western corner; thence
towards the north-east by Waikohu and Cook Counties to
the sea; thence towards the east and south-east generally
by the sea to Moeangiangi; thence towards the south gen-
erally by the leading spur and the southern watershed of the
Waikare River to the summit of Taraponui Mountain;
thence by the leading spur to the confluence of the Mohaka
River and the Waipunga River; thence by a right line to
Tataraokino Mountain; thence by the eastern watershed of
the Mokomokonui Stream to the summit of Pohokura Moun-
tain; thence by a line running due east to the Pukahunui
Stream; thence by the leading spur and the western water-
shed of the Te Hoe River to Maungatauiwha Trig. Station ;
thence by the north-eastern boundary of Heruiwi No. 4
Block to the northern boundary of Wairoa County; thence
by the Wairoa County to the Napier-Taupo Road; thence
by Hawke’s Bay, Rangitikei, Waimarino, and Kaitieke
Counties to the confluence of the Wanganui and Ongaruhe
Rivers; thence towards the west generally by Ohura and
Waitomo Counties to the summit of Rangitoto Mountain;
thence by a right line to the summit of Puwhenua Mount-
tain; and thence by Matamata County to the southern
boundary of Tauranga County, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

MEN'S [WOMEN'S] [BOYS'] [HALF-SEASON] [MONTHLY]
[WEEKLY] [DAY] LICENSE TO FISH.

The Fisheries Act, 1908, 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 authorized to fish for trout within the Rotorua
Acclimatization 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,
Clerk of the Executive Council.