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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

(d.) Contributions to Maori Ethnological Research Fund established under section 9 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923.

(e.) Support of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand and any other society which has for its object the study and investigation of matters concerning the Maori and cognate races of the South Pacific Ocean.

(f.) Such other purposes as the Native Minister may on the recommendation of the Board from time to time appoint.

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

Regulations for Trout and Perch Fishing, Taranaki Acclimatization District.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of December, 1924.

Present:

His Excellency the Administrator presiding in Council.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government 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 Taranaki Acclimatization District and the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations for the said district at variance therewith, and such regulations are hereby revoked:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout and perch in all waters within that district or part of the North Island known as the Taranaki Acclimatization District, as described in the Schedule hereto, may be issued under the hand of the secretary of the Taranaki Acclimatization Society (hereinafter called “the said society”), or any one authorized by the said society in that behalf: Provided that the secretary 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 perch, 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 one pound, and every such license shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Schedule hereto. Licenses may also be issued to boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years, or to women, at a reduced fee of five shillings for each license so issued: Provided that it shall be lawful for the said secretary, or his deputy, in any case where application is made for a license on or after the twentieth day of December in any year, to issue a license to any man for the sum of twelve shillings and sixpence, 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.

3. The secretary of the said society may issue day licenses to bona fide travellers and strangers not residing within the district aforesaid on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day’s fishing.

4. Any holder of a license may fish for trout and perch in the above-mentioned waters from the first day of October in any year to the thirtieth day of April of the following year, both inclusive; but every such license shall be for one season only, and shall expire on the thirtieth day of April following the date on which it was issued.

5. Trout and perch 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 or perch caught with such rod and line. No lures or baits other than natural or artificial flies, insects, or fish shall be used with such rod and line, nor shall any of the said lures or baits be used except upon a running line attached to a rod and reel; nor shall any set rod or line be used for taking trout or perch in any of the said waters: Provided that no lure or bait other than an artificial fly shall be used in the Stony River.

6. No license shall authorize any person other than the person named therein to fish.

7. No person shall have in his possession any of the Salmonidæ or trout or perch between the first day of May and the thirtieth day of September in any year, which period is hereby appointed a close season for all such fish: Provided always that this regulation shall not apply to fish caught by the officers of the said society or by the officers of the Marine Department for the purposes of acclimatization.

8. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters in which trout, salmon, or perch exist or have been liberated, or shall allow to flow into or place near the bank or margin of any such stream or waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, flax-mill refuse, lime, sheep-dip, petroleum or debris from petroleum-bores, or any other matter or liquid that is noxious, poisonous, or injurious to fish: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to prohibit the depositing in such stream of debris from any mining claim.

9. 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 returned alive into the water from which the same was taken.

10. No person shall fish for trout or perch without a license; and every person fishing shall, on the demand of any ranger, constable, officer of the said society, or of any person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, constable, officer, 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 or perch.

11. Every trout not exceeding twelve inches in length from nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person shall immediately be returned alive, with as little damage or hurt as possible, to the water from which the same has been taken.

12. No cross-line, hand-line, or night-line fishing, stroke-hauling, trimmer, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking or attempting to take, catching, or killing trout or perch; nor shall any of the above-mentioned baits be prepared or used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

13. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net, engine, instrument, or device, or means for taking or attempting to take fish in any waters within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any river or stream: Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the placing of any net, other than a stake-net, in or across the mouth or entrance of the Waitara and Mokau Rivers, or at any place in any such rivers not being above the Waitara Bridge in the case of the Waitara River, and not being above the Mokau Wharf in the case of the Mokau River, nor render any person liable to any penalty for fishing by such means.

14. For the purposes of these regulations any lake and the mouth of every such river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of five hundred yards from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low water.

15. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any salmon, trout, or perch, or any part thereof, unless he has a license to do so under regulations for taking trout or salmon at sea or in tidal waters, or for selling them.

16. No person shall take or catch more than twenty trout, or more than thirty pounds weight of trout, in any one day.

17. If any person shall be convicted of an offence against these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

18. Every person who shall construct or who has constructed a dam or weir in any river, stream, or waters in the Taranaki Acclimatization District in which salmon or trout exist, or have been liberated, or may hereafter be liberated, shall erect or construct proper fish-ladders or other means of ingress or egress for fish so as to allow fish to pass and return at all times.

19. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall be not less than forty shillings nor more than fifty pounds.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District comprising the Counties of Taranaki and Clifton and that portion of the Egmont County north of the Taungatara Stream.

LICENSE TO FISH.

The Fisheries Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

THE holder of this license, [Name in full], of [Address], [Calling or occupation], having this day paid the sum of
, is hereby authorized to fish for trout and perch within the Taranaki Acclimatization District from the
day of
, 192
, to the
day of
, 192
, subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made thereunder for the time being in force in the said district.

Dated at New Plymouth, this
day of
, 192
.

, Secretary, Taranaki Acclimatization Society.

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