Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 663

Regulations for Trout and Perch Fishing in the Hawera Acclimatization District.

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of February, 1930.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments, 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 make the following regulations for all that part of the Dominion known as the Hawera 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 hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all other regulations for the said district, and such regulations are hereby revoked.

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REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish in all waters within the said district may be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Hawera 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, perch, or other acclimatized fish, or of any regulation made thereunder.

2. The fee to be charged for a license as aforesaid to each male person over the age of sixteen years shall be £1, and every such license shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto. Licenses may also be issued to boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years, or to women, at a reduced fee of 5s. for each license so issued: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Secretary or his deputy, in any case where application is made for a license on or after the 15th day of January in any year to issue a license to any man for the sum of 12s. 6d., but so that such license shall extend only from the time of granting the same until the termination of the then trout-fishing season. No license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent.

3. The Secretary of the said society may issue day-licenses to bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid on payment of a fee of 5s. for each day’s fishing.

4. No person shall take, kill, or fish for trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish otherwise than with one rod and line, but a landing-net or gaff may be used to secure any trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish caught with such rod and line, and no lures or baits other than natural or artificial flies, insects, or fish, or spoon bait shall be used with such rod and line; nor shall any of the said lines or baits be used except upon a running line attached to a rod and reel; nor shall any set line or rod be used for taking trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish in any of the waters or streams aforesaid.

5. No person shall fish with more than two flies, or one fly and one minnow, devon, or spoon bait, or one fly and one natural bait, or two natural baits affixed to any trace. No fly shall have more than one hook, and no person shall use more than one lead or sinker, and such lead or sinker shall be tied above all flies, minnow, or natural bait used: Provided that the restrictions imposed by this regulation shall not apply to single-hooked flies of size 10 (old numbers) or smaller.

6. No person shall use any trace made of gimp or of either plain or twisted wire having a greater gauge than 21 standard wire gauge, or having a greater length than 6 ft.: Provided that the maximum length of wire herein prescribed shall not apply to traces of wire having a gauge not exceeding 28 standard wire gauge.

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

8. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidae of trout between the 1st day of May and the 30th day of September in any year, which period is hereby appointed the 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 Tourists and Health Resorts, for the purpose of pisciculture or scientific investigation: Provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the provisions of any regulation now in force, or hereafter made, with respect to keeping trout or salmon in freezing or cool chambers during the close season hereinbefore mentioned.

9. No person shall cast or throw into any stream 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, 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 depositing in such streams of debris from any mining claim.

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

11. Any person taking or catching any trout not exceeding 11 in. in length from nose to tip of tail shall immediately return it alive into the water from which the same is taken.

12. No person shall use, or make use of, a torch, acetylene lamp, or other artificial light when fishing for trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish.

13. No person shall cross-line fish, stroke-haul, or use any other unsportsmanlike device for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish; nor shall any person use any of the above-mentioned baits with any medicated or chemical preparation whatsoever.

14. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use any net or any instrument, or device or means for taking trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish in any river or stream within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream.

15. For the purpose of these regulations the mouth of every river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the seashore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of 500 yds. 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.

16. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish, or any part thereof, unless he has a license to do so under regulations for taking trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish, or for selling them.

17. No person shall take or catch more than twenty trout or more than twenty pounds weight of trout in any one day.

18. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than £2 or more than £50.

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

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

HAWERA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Taranaki and Wellington Land Districts bounded on the north-east and north by the Taranaki and Stratford Acclimatization Districts, hereinafter described, from the mouth of the Taungatara Stream to the north-eastern corner of Block XI, Taurakawa Survey District; thence by a right line to the range forming the county boundary, and along that range passing through Waitu and Mangarau Trig. to the Pokeka Road; thence by the Pokeka-Pipiriki Road to the Watershed Road forming the western boundary of Section 5, Block IV, Moumahaki Survey District; thence southerly along Watershed Road to the southern boundary of Mangapapa No. 1c Block; thence westerly along the said southern boundary to the western boundary of Lot 1, Mangapapa 1b Block; thence generally southerly along the western boundaries of Lots 1 and 3, Mangapapa 1b Block, to the Manganui-o-tahu Stream; thence down that stream to the western boundary of the Manganui-o-tahu Block; thence by the western and southern boundaries of the Manganui-o-tahu Block to Pakira Trig. Station; thence westerly to Orangihongi Trig. Station; thence southerly along the western boundaries of Lots 14 and 17 on plan 918, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington, and the eastern boundary of Lot 4, plan 659, deposited as aforesaid, to the south-eastern corner of Lot 4 aforesaid; thence down the Mangaone Stream to the eastern boundary of Section 16, Block V, Nukumaru Survey District; thence along the said eastern boundary to Wharekaranga Trig. Station; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the said Section 16