2938

Revoking Regulations for Trout, Perch, or Tench Fishing in
South Canterbury Acclimatization District, and making others
in lieu thereof.

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 the South Canterbury Acclimatiza-
tion District as the same is hereinafter defined in the First
Schedule hereto and the waters thereof; and doth hereby de-
clare that the regulations shall, as from the date of the public-
ation thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all other
regulations for the said district, and such regulations are
hereby revoked.
REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to fish for trout or other acclimatized fish may
   be issued by the secretary of the South Canterbury Acclimatiz-
   ation Society, or by any one authorized by such secretary in
   that behalf, and such licenses 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 to any special
   regulations made thereunder and to these regulations : Pro-
   vided that the period for fishing in the waters named and known
   as Lakes Alexandrina, Tui, Hartley, Stony, and Sunday shall
   be from the lst day of November in any one year till the
   30th day of April in the following year : Provided further that
   such 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. Such licenses shall be issued at the following rates :
   Licenses for men : £1 for the whole season. Licenses for
   women and for boys attending school or under the age of
   sixteen years : 5s. for the whole season.
3. Every such license shall be in the form set forth in the
   Second Schedule hereto.
4. No person shall fish with more than one rod and line, and
   with the following baits only : Natural or artificial fly, natural
   or artificial minnow, and any small indigenous fish, grass-
   hopper, beetle, spider, caterpillar, creeper, or worm : Pro-
   vided that it shall be unlawful to use worm when fishing for
   trout, perch, or tench in the Opihi River.
5. Not more than one bait shall be used in spoon and/or
   minnow and bait fishing, excepting in the Rangitata River,
   where not more than two live baits may be used, and no spoon
   or minnow shall be used with more than three sets of triple
   hooks.
6. No bare hooks shall be used.
7. Not more than three flies shall be used for fly-fishing on
   any one cast in the daytime, and not more than two at night,
   and no double-hooked flies shall be used.
8. No persons shall use any trace or cast of a greater guage
   than 21, standard wire gauge.
9. No person shall use any trace of a greater length than 6 ft.
10. No person shall use any other bait or any method,
    device, or contrivance whatever, for the purpose of fishing,
    taking, catching, or killing trout or other acclimatized fish
    except a rod and line, and a landing-net or gaff for fish taken
    with rod and line.
11. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other un-
    sportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking,
    catching, or killing trout or other acclimatized fish, nor shall
    any of the baits above-mentioned be used with any medicated
    or chemical preparation whatever.
12. No person shall take or attempt to take trout or other
    acclimatized fish without a license, and shall, on demand of
    any ranger, constable, or person producing a license, produce
    and show to such ranger, constable, or license-holder his
    license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait
    used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout or other
    acclimatized fish.
13. Every trout not exceeding 9 in. in length from nose to
    tip of tail taken or caught by any person shall be immediately
    returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.
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14. No person shall take or catch more than twenty-five
    trout, irrespective of weight in any one day, except in an
    angling competition duly authorized by the society.
15. No person shall have in his possession any of the
    salmonidae or trout between the 1st day of May and the 30th
    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
    Marine Department or of an acclimatization society, or the
    General Manager of the Department of Tourist and Health
    Resorts, for purposes of pisciculture : Provided further that
    nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the pro-
    visions of any regulations now in force or hereafter made with
    respect to keeping trout or salmon in freezing or cool chambers
    during the close season hereinbefore mentioned.
16. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters
    in which trout or salmon 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, lime,
    sheep-dip, flax-mill 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 de-
    positing in such stream of debris from any mining claim.
17. 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 is taken.
18. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of
    every 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 500 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.
19. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale,
    or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout
    or other acclimatized fish, or any part thereof, unless he has
    a license to do so under regulations for taking trout or other
    acclimatized fish or for selling them.
20. If any person shall be convicted of an offence against
    these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender
    shall thereupon become void.
21. It shall be unlawful to fish for trout in the waters of
    Lake Alexandrina by the method known as trolling.
22. The penalty for every breach of any of these regulations
    shall be not less than 40s. and not more than £50.
    FIRST SCHEDULE.
    SOUTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
    All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded on
    the north-west by the Westland Acclimatization District;
    on the north-east by the Ashburton Acclimatization District;
    and on the east by the sea; on the south by a line up the
    Pareora River to its source, by a right line to the summit
    of Mount Nimrod; thence by a right line to Trig. Station F;
    thence northerly along the summit of the range to Trig K;
    thence by a line due west to the Hakataramea River; thence
    up the Hakataramea River and Dalgety Creek to Hakataramea
    Pass; thence by a right line passing through Trig. Station NI
    to Stony Stream; thence down Stony Stream to the Waitaki
    River; and on the west by a line up the middle of the Waitaki
    and Pukaki Rivers to Pukaki Lake: thence up the middle of
    Pukaki Lake to the Tasman River; thence up the middle of
    the Tasman River to the Tasman Glacier; thence along the
    western boundary of the said Tasman Glacier to a point in line
    with a line from Mount Cook, and passing through Ball Hut;
    thence by that line to Mount Cook and the summit of the
    Southern Alps, the place of commencement.
    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
    within the South Canterbury Acclimatization District, from the
    day of
    , 19
    , to the
    day of, 19
    subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made there-
    under and to these regulations for the time being in force in
    the said district.
    Dated at
    this
    day of
    19
    Secretany, South Canterbury Acclimatization Society.
    C. A. JEFFERY,
    Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.