✨ Fisheries Regulations
2638
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68
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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, or the General Manager of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.
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(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, officer of the Department of Internal Affairs, or officer of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts to enter any premises where any such trout are or are believed to be, and to inspect and copy 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.
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.
EXEMPTION.
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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.
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These regulations shall be read subject to the exemptions set out in sections 88 and 90 of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
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Regulations 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 42 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 or other 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.
PENALTIES.
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The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall be a fine of not less than £2 nor more than £50.
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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; and every license issued under these regulations shall be deemed to be subject to the condition that such license shall become void on conviction of the licensee of an offence against these regulations.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
All that area in the Auckland, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington Land Districts, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the sea-coast in the Bay of Plenty in line with the south-western boundary of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block; thence to and along that boundary, the western boundary of Whangaparaoa No. 3A Block, and the western and south-western boundaries of Waikura No. 2 Block to Pakira Trig. Station; thence along right lines to Whanakaoa Trig. Station to Kapua Trig. Station, to Arowhana Trig Station, to Tuanui-o-te-Kahakaha Trig. Station; thence along a right line passing through Trig. Station 140 to the Motu River; thence up the Motu River and the Whakapaupakihi Stream to its source; thence along a right line to Trig. Station 149A; thence along a right line to Trig. Station Pokaikiri; thence along the north-western boundaries of Section 2, Block V, Motu Survey District, Sections 2, 1, and 4, Block IX, Motu Survey District, and Sections 3 and 2, Block XII, Moanui Survey District, S.G.R’s. 90 and 89, and that boundary produced to a point in line with the western boundary of Tahoma 2c 3, Section 2 Block; thence to and along that boundary to its intersection by a line running from Mangatapere Trig. Station to Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence along a right line running between Maungapohatu and Puketapu Trig. Stations to its intersection with the Ruakituri River in Block VII, Tuahu Survey District; thence down the Ruakituri River to the northern boundary-line of S.G.R. No. 84; thence along the northern boundaries of S.G.R. No. 84 and 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 Bushy Knoll Road to the western boundary of Section 2, Block IX, Hangaroa Survey District; thence along the western boundaries of Sections 2 and 5, Block IX aforesaid, to the north-western boundary of Tauwharetoi 4B Block; thence along the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of that block, and the south-western and south-eastern boundaries of Tauwharetoi No. 3A Block to the Hangaroa River; thence down the middle of the Hangaroa River to its confluence with the Ruakituri River; thence along a right line to the sea-coast at Paritu (Block XIII, Paritu Survey District); thence southerly along high-water mark of the sea to the southernmost point of the Mahia Peninsula; thence along high-water mark, Hawke 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 XII, Mangamaiere Survey District; thence south-westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 27; thence westerly along a right line to Trig. Station 28, Manukaiapu; thence north-easterly along a right line to Ruapehu Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line to Paretetaitonga Trig. Station; thence towards the north-east along a right line to Ngaruhoe Trig. Station; thence northerly along a right line to Tongariro Trig. Station; thence north-easterly along a right line in the direction of the mouth of the Waihi Stream, Lake Taupo, to the Wanganui River; thence down the middle of that river to the western boundary of the Waione Block, and northerly along that boundary to Maungaku Trig. Station; thence northerly along a mountain range passing through Haukungaroa, Motere, Tuhingamata, and Weraroa Trig. Stations to Pureora Trig. Station, and thence north-easterly along a right line to Puwhenua Trig. Station; thence north-westerly along a right line in the direction of Weraiti Trig. Station to a point due west from Otanewainuku 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 Jr in Block IV, Waihi South Survey District; thence along a right line running due north through Trig. Jr aforesaid to high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty; thence south-easterly and north-easterly along the aforesaid high-water mark to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block, the point of commencement; and including White and Whale Islands and the Ru Rima Rocks.
Excepting thereout the district defined by Order in Council made on the 8th day of October, 1926, enacting the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1926.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
(MEN’S), (WOMEN’S), (BOYS’), (GIRLS’), (HALF-SEASON), (MONTHLY), (WEEKLY), (DAY) LICENSE TO FISH.
Under the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments; and under the Rotorua Trout-fishing Regulations, 1929.
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 for trout with one rod and line only within any part of the district affected by the above-entitled regulations during any portion of the period from the day of , 19 , to the day of , 19 , which may be included in the open season in such part of the said district, subject to the above-mentioned Acts and to all regulations made thereunder for the time being in force in the said district.
NOTES.—(1) The said district consists approximately of the Rotorua Acclimatization District, exclusive of Lake Taupo and all rivers and streams flowing into that lake and the Waikato River between Lake Taupo and the Huka Falls.
(2) The open season is from 1st November to 31st May.
(3) Detailed description of district is set out in the above-entitled regulations.
Dated at , this day of , 19 .
……………, General Manager,
Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
WATERS RESERVED FOR FLY-FISHING.
(a) The Kaituna River from Lake Rotoiti to the electric-power station at the Okere Falls.
(b) The Tahana-atara Stream.
(c) An area of water surface of Lake Rotoiti 300 yards from shore between Emery’s Wharf and Taupuacharuru Creek.
(d) The Ohau Channel.
(e) Every stream, spring, or river flowing into or from Lakes Rotorua, Rotoiti, Rotoehu, Rotoma, Rotokakahi, and Tarawera, and the waters within a radius of 300 yards, shore to shore, from the centre of the meeting-line of every such stream, spring, or river, and the lake into which or out of which it flows.
(f) The Waikaretaheke River.
(g) The Hopuruahine, Mokau, and Aniwaniwa Rivers, and the waters of Lake Waikaremoana within a radius of 300 yards, shore to shore, from the respective centres of the meeting-line of each of the said rivers and the said lake.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 26/18/2.)
By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.
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- F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council