2898
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

(b.) That part of Lake Taupo lying within three hundred yards of the portion of the shores of the lake which extends from the point where the northern bank of the Waitahanui River meets the lake in a southerly direction to the point where the southern bank of the Rotongaio River meets the lake.

(c.) That part of Lake Taupo lying within two hundred yards of the portion of the shore of the lake which extends from the point where the western bank of the Waipahihi Hot Stream meets the lake in a southerly direction for a distance of one mile.

(d.) All tributary rivers and streams flowing into the Tongariro River (exclusive of the Poutu River), and not including the main stream of the Tongariro River.

(2.) No person shall fish for trout in Lake Roto Aira in breach of the regulations made with respect to the taking of trout or other fish in that lake.

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 any 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 cleaning 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 June and the 1st day of November following in any year in the said district, except as provided for by the regulations regarding keeping trout in freezing or cool chambers after close of season, which were made by Order in Council dated respectively the 6th day of October, 1908, and 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.

(3.) (a.) No person shall have in his possession any trout or part thereof if the same is received by him for the purpose of being smoked in the course of his business, unless he makes in a book kept for that purpose the entries hereinafter mentioned relative to such trout, and permits any ranger, constable, or officer of the Department of Internal Affairs to enter any premises where any such trout are or are believed to be and to inspect such book at all reasonable times.

(b.) The entries required to be made as aforesaid shall be—
(i.) Date of receipt of fish.
(ii.) Number of fish received.
(iii.) Name of owner of fish.
(iv.) Address of owner of fish.
(v.) Number of fishing license (if any) of owner of fish.
(vi.) Address to which fish are to be delivered or forwarded.

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 Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs having been first obtained.

13. EXEMPTION.

14. These regulations shall be read subject to the special provisions as to issue of licenses contained in paragraph (c) of subsection (9) of the special Act.

15. 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 Minister 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 or other purposes, nor to any fish in the possession of the Minister or such officers as aforesaid for any of the said purposes.

16. CAMPING-SITES.

(1.) No person shall camp upon or use for a camping-site or otherwise occupy any part of the camping-area otherwise than by virtue of a permit issued pursuant to these regulations.

(2.) The Minister or his appointee may from time to time, by writing under his hand, appoint the Postmaster at Taupo or at Tokaanu, or any officer of the Department of Internal Affairs or other person, to be a permit officer for the purposes of this regulation.

(3.) Applications for permits shall be made personally or in writing to a permit officer, and shall state the period for which a permit is desired, and shall be accompanied with the amount of the fee payable for such permit for the period for which the same is desired, and there shall be produced together with such application the license issued to the person by or on behalf of whom the permit is desired, or the amount of his license fee shall be tendered therewith.

(4.) The fee for a permit shall be at the rate of 10s. for every month or part of a month of the period for which the permit is issued.

(5.) A permit officer may refuse to issue a permit 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, and the Minister or his appointee may forbid the issue of a permit to any person whom in his discretion he considers unsuitable to receive a permit.

(6.) Every permit shall be issued under the hand of a permit officer, and shall set out the period for which the permit is granted, and shall be generally in the form set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

(7.) No permit shall be transferable.

(8.) Permits may be issued at any time between the 1st day of October in any year and the close of the open season in the following year.

(9.) No permit shall be issued except to a person who is the holder of a whole-season license for the time being in force, save that at any time during the open season a permit may be issued to the holder of a weekly license, but such permit shall expire with the expiration of such license.

(10.) (a.) No permit granted during the close season shall take effect prior to the day before the commencement of the ensuing open season.

(b.) No permit shall continue in force after the day following the expiration of the open season during or prior to which it was granted.

(c.) No permit shall continue in force after the day following the expiration of the period for which it was granted.

(11.) Every holder of a permit shall on demand produce such permit to any ranger, constable, officer of the Department of Internal Affairs, or permit officer.

(12.) If the license issued to the holder of any permit shall become void pursuant to these regulations, then such permit shall thereupon likewise become void and of no effect.

(13.) If the holder of any permit shall commit a breach of or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this regulation, the Minister or his appointee may, in his discretion, revoke such permit, and, by writing under his hand, give notice of such revocation to the holder, and such notice may be served either by delivering the same to the holder personally or by forwarding the same by registered post addressed to the holder at his usual or last known place of abode in New Zealand, and upon service of such notice the permit shall become void and of no effect.

(14.) Every permit shall be deemed to operate—firstly, as a license to the permit-holder to erect and maintain, and, together with not more than five persons in addition to the permit-holder, to occupy a camp on any part of the camping-area, for the term therein set out, subject to all the conditions and restrictions contained in this regulation, and, secondly, as a special license within the meaning of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of the special Act, and to confer on the holder thereof a full and free right of way (in common with all other persons having the like right) between any site for the time being occupied by the permit-holder and the shore of Lake Taupo or the most convenient public road at all times, so long as such permit is in force, along and over the land referred to in the said paragraph (b) for himself, his family, visitors, and servants, and all persons having business with him at such site.

(15.) Notwithstanding the rights conferred by any permit, there shall be reserved a full and free right of way for all persons at all lawful times to go, pass, and repass along the bank or margin of any river or stream and to use the same for a reasonably sufficient width from the water’s edge for purposes of fishing and for purposes of access to any other site, and no permit-holder shall erect or maintain or cause or suffer to be erected or maintained anything that may in any way obstruct or impede the use of such bank or margin for such width and for such purposes as aforesaid.

(16.) A permit-holder shall be entitled to erect, maintain, and occupy, on any part of the camping-area, a camp comprising one or more tents or other structures of a temporary nature and to remove the same at any time prior to the