THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries Regulations Amendment, 1930.

MICHAEL MYERS, Administrator of the Government.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this 19th day of February,
1930.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on
him by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and
of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His
Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend in the
manner hereinafter set out the regulations relating to pearl-shell
fisheries in the Cook Islands made by Order in Council on the sixteenth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at page 2275, hereinafter
called “The Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries Regulations Amend-
ment, 1928”; and with the like advice and consent doth declare
that the amendment hereby made shall come into operation on the
date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE regulations made by Order in Council on the 1st day of
   February, 1921, and published in the Gazette on the 17th day of
   February; 1921, at page 496, relating to pearl-shell fisheries in the
   Cook Islands may be cited as “The Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries
   Regulations, 1921,” and are hereinafter referred to as “the principal
   regulations.”

2. The regulations made by Order in Council on the 16th day of
   July, 1928, and published in the Gazette on the 26th day of July, 1928,
   at page 2275, in amendment of the Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries
   Regulations, 1921, may be cited as “The Cook Islands Pearl-shell
   Fisheries Regulations Amendment, 1928.”

3. These regulations may be cited as “The Cook Islands Pearl-
   shell Fisheries Regulations Amendment, 1930.”

4. These regulations shall be read together with and form part of
   the Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries Regulations, 1921, and the
   Cook Islands Pearl-shell Fisheries Regulations Amendment, 1928.

5. Regulations Numbers 1 and 2 of the Cook Islands Pearl-shell
   Fisheries Regulations Amendment, 1928, are hereby revoked.

6. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal regulations,
   fishing for pearl-shell by means of diving-machines shall be permitted
   in both the northern reserve of Penrhyn and the southern reserve of
   Penrhyn from the date of the coming into force of this Order in Council
   until the 31st day of December, 1932, but shall thereafter only be
   permitted during the times set out in clause 8 of the principal
   regulations.

7. Fishing for pipi pearls by means of diving-machines shall be
   permitted in both the northern reserve of Penrhyn and the southern
   reserve of Penrhyn from the date of the coming into force of this
   Order in Council until the 31st day of December, 1932:

Provided, however, that only diving-machines which are for the
time being licensed pursuant to the provisions of Part III of the prin-
cipal regulations shall be permitted to fish for pipi pearls. No
additional fee shall be payable.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.