Nov. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2631

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

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SCHEDULE.

DUNEDIN City Council (for repaying part of loan) .. 89,300
Mount Eden Borough Council (for streets-construction) .. .. .. .. 10,000
Waipawa Borough Council (for erection of workers’ dwellings) .. .. .. .. 5,000
Tamahere Road Board (for purchasing road-making machinery) .. .. .. .. 3,000
Foxton Borough Council (for water-supply and drainage) .. .. .. .. 5,000
Inglewood County Council (for forming and metalling Richmond Road) .. .. .. .. 1,000
Dannevirke County Council (for building workmen’s cottages) .. .. .. .. 600
Horowhenua County Council (for water-race protection) .. .. .. .. 500
Karepuka Road Board (for completing metalling of roads) .. .. .. .. 250
Whakatane Borough Council (for purchasing plant and machinery) .. .. .. .. 250
Whangarei County Council (for completing worker’s dwelling) .. .. .. .. 75

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Revoking Regulations regarding Netting in the New River Estuary, and making New Regulations in lieu thereof.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of November, 1921.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the Fisheries Act, 1908, that the Governor-General in Council may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations (to have force and effect throughout New Zealand or only in such waters or places as are specified in such regulations) for, amongst other things, imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of fish, providing for the more effectual protection and improvement of fish, and prohibiting the use of nets or seines of all descriptions or of any specified description :

And whereas by Orders in Council dated the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, the twenty-third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the twenty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 78, of the twenty-second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, No. 76, of the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and No. 92, of the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, regulations were made prohibiting the use of nets at the mouth or entrance of certain rivers and streams, including the New River Estuary :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 105, of the sixteenth day of the same month, regulations were made prohibiting the use of nets in portion of the New River Estuary, or in any river or stream running therein :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the thirteenth day of January following, regulations were made amending the hereinafter-recited Orders in Council in so far as they relate to the New River Estuary and at or near the mouth or entrance thereof, and in the rivers and streams running into the estuary :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 96, of the third day of November following, regulations were made prohibiting the use of nets at the mouth or entrance to certain rivers and streams running therein :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, regulations were made amending the regulations made by Order in Council of the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ten :

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the hereinafter-recited Orders in Council, and to make fresh regulations in lieu thereof :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinafter-recited power and authority, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinafter-recited Orders in Council of the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, the twenty-third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the twenty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the thirtieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and doth make the following regulations in lieu thereof.

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REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall put, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, any net or seine of any description (except a landing-net) for taking trout in any portion of the New River Estuary, or rivers and streams running therein.

2. No person shall put, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, any net or seine of any description (except a landing-net) for taking fish of any description whatsoever in those portions of the New River Estuary described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the netting-prohibited areas.

3. The penalty for breach of the above regulations shall be not more than £50.

SCHEDULE.

The netting-prohibited areas hereinbefore mentioned shall be all those areas forming portions of the New River Estuary and Harbour described as follows :—

1. All that portion of the New River Estuary at the mouths of the Waimatua and Waipaka Rivers, situated towards the east of a line connecting the north-east corner of Section 21, Block VI, Campbelltown Hundred, with the intersection of high-water mark by the prolongation in a westerly direction of the south side of the road forming the northern boundary of Section 1, Block VI, Campbelltown Hundred, the said line being defined on the ground by three beacon-posts painted white with black tops; the approximate positions of said posts being shown. All in the Land District of Southland. As the said area is coloured red and marked A on the plan marked M.D. 3562, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

2. All that portion of the New River Estuary at the mouth of the Oreti or New River, situated towards the west of a line being the prolongation in a southerly direction of the west side of the road forming the eastern boundary of Section 19, Block XX, Invercargill Hundred, till intersected by a line proceeding due east from the north-eastern corner of Native Reserve 181, Block XXIII, New River Hundred, which last-mentioned line forms the southern boundary of the said area; each of the said lines being defined on the ground by two beacon-posts painted white with black tops; the approximate position of said posts being shown. All in the Land District of Southland. As the said area is coloured red and marked B on the plan marked M.D. 3562, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

3. All that portion of the New River Harbour situated to the north of the Otatara Road and tramway bridge, which begins at the west end of Tweed Street in the Town of Invercargill, and runs in a south-westerly direction across to the Otatara or western side of the New River Estuary. All in the Land District of Southland. As the said boundary is delineated in pink colour on plan marked M.D. 4370, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.