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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

(3.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout with, or use for the purpose of taking or killing trout, any set rod or line; or any net; provided that this clause shall not forbid the use of a landing-net as described in clause (1) of this regulation.
(4.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout with, or use for the purpose of taking or killing trout, any cross-line or hand-line fishing, stroke-hauling or any other unsportsmanlike device.

8. RESTRICTIONS ON FISH THAT MAY BE TAKEN.

(1.) No person shall on any one day take or kill more than twenty-five trout, and no person shall continue to fish for trout on any day on which he has already taken or killed twenty-five trout.
(2.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill in any manner whatever, or intentionally have in his possession, any trout which does not exceed 10 in. in length from nose to tip of tail.
(3.) Every person taking a trout which does not exceed 10 in. in length from nose to tip of tail shall immediately return it alive into the water from which it was taken.
(4.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill, in any manner whatever, or intentionally have in his possession, any salmon, salmon-parr, or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever.
(5.) Every person taking any of the fish referred to in the last preceding clause hereof by accident or otherwise shall immediately return it alive into the water from which it was taken.
(6.) No person shall take any fish from or in any way interfere with or damage any net, trap, pound-net, or other contrivance used by any officer of the Government for the purpose of catching any fish for the purposes of acclimatization or propagation or for scientific purposes.

9. LOCAL RESTRICTIONS.

(1.) No person shall in fishing for trout use any lure or bait other than artificial fly (exclusive of a spinning fly) in any of the waters described in the Fourth Schedule hereto.
(2.) Nothing herein contained or contained in any license issued under these regulations shall be deemed to authorize any person to fish for, take, or kill trout in or from the Wairoa Stream between the Waterfalls and Lake Tarawera.

10. POLLUTION OF WATERS.

(1.) No person shall cast or throw into any lake, river, stream, or other waters, or shall allow to flow into or place near the bank or margin of any lake, river, stream, or other waters any sawdust or sawmill refuse, 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 any such waters of debris from any mining claim.
(2.) No person shall cast or throw or permit to be cast or thrown any cleanings or offal from fish into any lake, river, stream, or other waters in water less than 6 ft. deep.
(3.) No person shall leave any cleanings or offal from fish lying unburied on the bank or margin of any lake, river, stream, or other waters.
(4.) No person taking any trout affected by any disease shall cast or throw or permit to be cast or thrown such trout, either alive or dead, or any cleanings, offal, or other part of such trout into any water wherein there are trout, or leave the same (whether buried or unburied) on or near the bank or margin of any such water.

11. WRONGFUL POSSESSION AND DEALING.

(1.) No person shall have in his possession any trout between the 5th day of May and the 1st day of October following in any year in the Whakatane Sub-district, or between the 5th day of June and the 1st day of November following in any year in any other part of the district, except as provided for by the regulations regarding keeping trout in freezing or cool chambers after close of season, which were made by Orders in Council dated respectively the 6th day of October, 1908, the 6th day of September, 1909, and the 8th day of June, 1914, and published in the Gazette on the 8th day of October, 1908, at page 2582, the 16th day of September, 1909, at page 2350, and the 11th day of June, 1914, at page 2391 respectively.
(2.) No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale any trout or any part thereof, or fish for, take, or kill for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout: Provided always that it shall be lawful for any person to buy and sell trout (whether fresh or smoked) taken and branded by or under the direction of the Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs.

12. LIBERATION OF FISH.

No acclimatization society or person shall liberate any fish of any description whatever in any lake, river, stream, or other waters within the district without the written consent of the General Manager of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts having been first obtained.

13. EXEMPTION.

(1.) These regulations shall be read subject to the special provisions as to issue of licenses and as to the rights of the holders of such licenses contained in section 2 of the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1908, and in section 121 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1913, respectively.
(2.) These regulations shall be read subject to the exemptions set out in sections 88 and 90 of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
(3.) Regulations 5, 6, and 8 hereof and clauses (1) and (3) of Regulation 7 hereof and clause (1) of Regulation 9 hereof and clause (1) of Regulation 11 hereof shall not apply to the General Manager or his appointee or to officers of the Marine Department or to officers of the Department of Internal Affairs taking, fishing for, or catching fish for the purposes of acclimatization or propagation or for scientific purposes, nor to any fish in the possession of the General Manager or his appointee or such officers as aforesaid for any of the said purposes.

14. PENALTIES.

(1.) The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall be a fine of not less than £2 nor more than £50.
(2.) If any person is 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 or his appointee.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington Land Districts, being part of the Rotorua Acclimatization District, bounded by a line commencing at the Puwhenua Trig. Station (situated in Block VII, Tapapa East Survey District), and proceeding north-west along a right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station to a point due west from Otane-Wainuku Trig. Station in Block XVI, Otanewainuku Survey District; thence due east along a right line to that trig. station and again due east along that line produced to a point due south of Trig. Station J1 in Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a right line running due north through Trig. J1 aforesaid to high-water mark, Bay of Plenty; thence along high-water mark, Bay of Plenty, in a south-easterly direction to the western side of Maraetotara Road (Block III, Whakatane Survey District); thence along the western side of that road to its junction with the Nukuhou-Maraetotara Road (Whakatane-Opotiki main road); thence along the western side of the last-named road to its junction with the Nukuhou (Waimana-Ohiwa) Road; thence along the western side of that road to the “confiscation line”; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary-line of Waimana 1E Block; thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 21, Block IV, Waimana Survey District, and the south-eastern side of Waimana 1c and 1d to Paitaua; thence along the south-western boundary of Waimana 1d Block to the Waimana or Tauranga River; thence up that river to its source; thence south-westerly along summit of range to Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence south-easterly along a right line in the direction of Puketapu Trig. Station to its intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII, Tuahu Survey District; thence down that river to the northern boundary of S.G.R. 84, and thence along the northern boundary of said S.G.R. 84 and along the northern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block VIII, Tuahu Survey District, to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana Road; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to Bushy Knoll Road; thence along the middle of that road to the northernmost corner of Section 2, Block IX, Hangaroa Survey District; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 1, Block IX aforesaid; thence south-easterly generally along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 4, Block IX aforesaid; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of Tauwharetoi 4B Block; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of said block and Tauwharetoi 3B1 Block, and along the south-eastern boundary of Tauwharetoi 3A Block to the Hangaroa River; thence down the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ruakituri River; thence along a right line to the sea at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu Survey District); thence southerly along high-water mark of the sea to the southernmost point of Mahia Peninsula; thence along high-water mark, Hawke’s Bay, to the mouth of the Mohaka River; thence to and up the middle of the Mohaka River to a point in line with Trig. Stations 68A and 65A; thence along that line to said Trig. Station 65A; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 26, Tawaki Tohunga, in Block XLI, Mangamaire Survey District; thence south-westerly