Sept. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2937

Regulations for Trout Fishing in the Waimarino Acclimatization District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of September, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments, 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 make the following regulations for all that part of the Dominion known as the Waimarino Acclimatization District and the waters thereof, as the same is defined in the First Schedule hereof; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all other regulations for the said district, and such regulations are hereby revoked.

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R E G U L A T I O N S.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout in all waters within the said district may be issued under the hand of the secretary of the Waimarino Acclimatization Society, or any one authorized by the said secretary in that behalf, and such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish in the said acclimatization district from the 1st day of October in any one year to the 30th day of April in the year following, subject to the said Acts, and any regulations made thereunder, and to these regulations: 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 of any regulation made thereunder.

2. Licenses in the form in the Second Schedule hereto available in the said acclimatization district may be issued at the following rates:—

Licenses for men: Twenty shillings for the whole season.

Licenses for women, and for boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years: Five shillings for the whole season.

3. The secretary of the said society may issue a monthly license, available in the said district only, to male bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid on payment of a fee of ten shillings.

4. Any holder of a license may fish with one rod and line for trout, and may use a landing-net or gaff to secure any trout caught with such rod and line.

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

6. Every person shall fish with natural or artificial bait only: Provided that in the Piopiotea Stream and the Whakapapa Stream from Owhango to the source of all its headwaters, and on the southern side of the Wanganui River, extending from a point five miles down stream from the Matapuna bridge to a point one mile above the said bridge, natural or artificial fly, natural grass-hopper, natural locust, natural minnow or fish, or any artificial bait only may be used.

7. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ or trout between the 3rd day of May and the 30th day of September, 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 officers of the Marine Department for purposes of pisciculture.

8. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream, or on or near the bank or margin of any river or stream, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any sawdust or sawmill refuse, lime, sheep-dip, flax-mill refuse, or any other matter or liquid poisonous or harmful to fish.

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

10. Every rainbow trout (salmo irideus) not exceeding 12 in. in length from nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person in the Mangawhero Stream and not exceeding 10 in. in length from nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person in any other stream in the said district shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

11. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout; nor shall any of the above-mentioned baits be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

12. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any river or stream within the district aforesaid.

13. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout, or any part thereof.

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

15. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing at the confluence of the Ongaruhe and Wanganui Rivers at Taumarunui, and proceeding thence up the middle of the Wanganui River to its intersection with a right line lying between Trig. Station on Tongariro and a point on the west shore of Lake Taupo at the mouth of the Waihi Stream; thence south-westerly along that line to said Trig. Station on Tongariro; thence southerly along a right line to Trig. Station D on Ngauruhoe; thence southerly along a right line to Trig. Station H on Paretetaitonga; thence south-easterly along a right line to Trig. Station on Ruapehu; thence south-easterly along a right line to Trig. Station No. 28 on Manukaiapu; thence south-westerly along right lines through Trig. Station 24 on Te Rotete C, on Auahitotara; thence by a right line to the junction of the Waiouru–Tokaanu Road with the Waiouru–Moawhango Road; thence south-easterly along the middle of the last-mentioned road to a point in line with the northern boundary of Raketa pauma No. 1r 2 Block; thence to and along said northern boundary in a north-westerly direction and along the northern boundaries of Raketa pauma Nos. 1g, 1A 2, 1A 1, and 3A 2 Blocks, and along the production of the last-named to the middle of the Turakina River; thence down the middle of that river to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section 4, Block II, Maungakaretu Survey District; thence to and along said northern boundary and the northern boundaries of Sections 3, 2, and 1, in Block II aforesaid, and along the northern boundaries of Sections 4, 3, and 2, across a road and along the northern and north-western boundaries of Section 1, all in Block I, Maungakaretu Survey District, to the Owhakura Road; thence to and along the middle of that road in a westerly direction to the confluence of the Waipapa and Maketu Streams; thence along the northern boundaries of Sections 8 and 1, Block IV, Ngamatea Survey District, and along the north boundary of said Section 1 produced to the middle of the Whangaehu River; thence down the middle of that river and up the middle of the stream forming the north-eastern boundary of Ohotu 6A No. 1 Block to Field’s Track crossing; thence to and along the middle of said Field’s Track in a general south-westerly direction to the middle of the Rangitatau Stream; thence down the middle of said stream to its confluence with the Mangawhero River; thence up the middle of that river to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Ohotu No. 9 Block; thence to and along the said south-western boundary and along the southern boundary of Section 1, Block IX, Ngamatea Survey District, the north-eastern and north-western boundaries of Section 1, Block XII, Tauakira Survey District, and the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 9, Block XI, to the Paparoa Stream; thence down the middle of that stream to its confluence with the Wanganui River; thence up the middle of that river to its confluence with the Ongaruhe River, being the place of commencement.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

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 with only one rod and line for trout in every Acclimatization District in New Zealand, except in Rotorua Acclimatization District and Taupo waters, from the day of 19 , to the day of 19 , subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made thereunder and to the regulations for the time being in force in the Waimarino Acclimatization District, and to the local regulations for the time being in force in other acclimatization districts.

Dated at this day of , 19 .

Secretary, Waimarino Acclimatization Society.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.