Oct. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2897

2. ISSUE OF LICENSES.

(1.) The following licenses to fish for trout in the district may be issued :—
(a.) A whole-season license.
(b.) A weekly license.
(c.) A day license.

(2.) The Chief Postmasters at Auckland, Hamilton, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and the Postmasters at Rotorua, Taupo, and Tokaanu, and any officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorized in writing in that behalf by the Minister or his appointee shall be issuing officers for the purpose of these regulations.

(3.) Applications for licenses shall be made to an issuing officer.

(4.) All licenses shall be issued under the hand of an issuing officer, and shall be generally in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

(5.) Any issuing officer 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 regulations made thereunder.

3. LICENSE FEES.

(1.) For the purpose of these regulations “resident” means a person domiciled in New Zealand; “district resident” means a person domiciled in New Zealand whose permanent and principal or only place of residence is within ten miles distant from any point of the margin of Lake Taupo.

(2.) The respective fees for all licenses issued shall be those set out in the following table :—

(3.) No person other than a resident or district resident shall be entitled to obtain more than one weekly license or more than one day license in any one season.

(4.) The foregoing fees shall be paid to the issuing officer prior to the issue of the respective licenses.

4. RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS UNDER LICENSES.

(1.) The holder of a whole-season license may fish for trout in any part of the district during the whole of the open season in respect of which the license is issued, but every such license shall be for one season only, and shall expire at the close of the open season in respect of which it was issued.

(2.) The holder of a weekly license or day license may fish for trout in any part of the district within the open season during or in respect of which the same is issued between the first and last days set out in the license (both days inclusive) or on the day set out in the license, as the case may be.

(3.) Every license shall be subject always to the special limits and restrictions set out in these regulations or otherwise imposed by law, and notwithstanding the terms of any license the holder thereof shall not be authorized to fish in any place during the close season in that place.

(4.) Every license shall be deemed to operate as a special license within the meaning of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of the special Act and to confer upon the holder thereof a full and free right of way (in common with all other persons having the like right) for purposes of angling, at all times so long as such license is in force, along and over the land referred to in the said paragraph (b), except such parts thereof as may for the time being be let for a camping-site or occupied as a camp under a permit issued pursuant to these regulations, and subject to any Proclamation for the time being in force issued under the proviso to the said paragraph (b).

(5.) Except as aforesaid, no license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

(6.) No license shall be transferable or be deemed to authorize any person to fish other than the person named therein.

5. FISHING WITHOUT A LICENSE.

(1.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout within the district unless he is the holder of a license issued under these regulations, except as provided by Regulation 13 hereof.

(2.) A general license to fish for trout and other acclimatized fish in every acclimatization district issued pursuant to the General Regulations enuring under the Fisheries Act, 1908, and made by Order in Council dated the 23rd day of August, 1907, and published in the Gazette on the 29th day of August, 1907, at page 2685, shall not entitle the holder to fish for trout or other acclimatized fish in the district.

(3.) Every person fishing for trout, or in possession of fishing-gear, shall, on the demand of any ranger, constable, officer of the Department of Internal Affairs, or of any person producing a current license, give his true name and place of residence, and on the like demand, produce and show to such ranger, constable, officer, or person his license and the contents of his creel or bag and the lure or bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout.

6. RESTRICTIONS ON TIMES OF FISHING.

(1.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout between the hours of 9 p.m. on any day and 4 a.m. on the following day.

(2.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout or in any way injure or disturb the same in any part of the district during the close season.

7. RESTRICTIONS ON METHODS OF FISHING.

(1.) No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout 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.

(2.) No person shall in fishing for trout—
(a.) Use any lure or bait other than the natural or artificial fly or natural or artificial minnow, or some form of spoon bait, or any small indigenous fish, or grasshopper, or beetle, or spider, or insect, the use of which is not otherwise forbidden by these regulations :
(b.) Use as a lure or bait the shell-fish koura, or worms, or the creeper, or the huhu or matai-grub :
(c.) Use any lure or bait otherwise than upon a running line attached to a rod and reel :
(d.) Use with any lure or bait any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

(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 have in his possession any trout which does not exceed 12 in. in length from nose to tip of tail.

(3.) Every person taking a trout which does not exceed 12 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 following places :—
(a.) The Waitahanui River.

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