APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 989

SANITARY PROVISIONS.

23. (1) The licensee or the manager of any abattoir or meat-export slaughterhouse, as the case may be, shall provide rent free proper office accommodation for the Inspector.
    (2) Such accommodation shall include the lighting and heating of the office, and shall be subject to the approval of the Department.

24. The licensee or the manager of any abattoir or meat-export slaughterhouse shall provide the following facilities to ensure the efficient ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of all stock slaughtered therein:-
    (a) Proper and adequate holding accommodation for ante-mortem inspection of stock and adequate provision for pens for animals suspected of disease and awaiting further inspection.
    (b) Sufficient natural light in the slaughter-room and artificial light at times of the day when natural light is inadequate to ensure a proper inspection of the carcasses.

25. In every meat-export slaughterhouse the rooms and compartments used for the storage of edible products shall be separate and distinct from those used for the storage of inedible products.

26. The licensee or manager of any slaughtering-place shall take every precaution to ensure that the slaughtering-place is kept as free as possible from flies, and no material which constitutes a breeding-ground therefor shall be permitted to remain in any slaughtering-place.

27. (1) All coverings used by the Inspector and by all employees in any slaughtering-place to protect their clothing or person shall be of such material as can be readily cleaned, and only clean garments shall be worn.
    (2) All knife scabbards shall at all times be kept clean.

SCHEDULE.
Date of Order in Council: 25th October, 1928.
Date of publication in Gazette: 1st November, 1928.
Page of Gazette: 3126.

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

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

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of March, 1930.
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 Wellington 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.

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 Wellington 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, or to women, at a reduced fee of 5s. for each license so issued: Provided that it shall be lawful for any secretary or his deputy, in any case where application is made for a license on or after the 20th day of December 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 2s. 6d. for each day's fishing.

4. Trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish shall not be fished for, taken, or killed, otherwise than with one rod and running 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.

5. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with any lures or bait other than natural or artificial insects, fish (except shell-fish), or worms, with such road and line: Provided that no lures or baits other than artificial ones shall be used in the following rivers and streams and their tributaries: The Wainui-o-mata, the Wainui tributary of the Whakatiki, the Mungaroa and its tributaries, the Koro Koro, the Akatarawa and its tributaries, the Pukuratahi and its tributaries, the Belmont Stream, the Horokiwi and the Pahautanui and their tributaries (Hutt County); the South Karori, the Porirua, the Kaiwarra (Makara County); the Mangaone, the Otaki and its tributaries above the railway bridge; the Waitohu, the Waikawa, the Waikanae (above Buchanan's house); the Mangahao and its tributaries above and including the dams (2), the Horopiti dam, the Tokomaru; the Ohau and its tributaries above railway-bridge (Horowhenua County); Abbot's Creek, the Mangatarera and the Mangatiriri, the Waipoua, the Ruamahanga from the Te Ore Ore Road bridge to its source, the Kourarau Stream, including dams (2) (Wairarapa); the Kahutara, the Tiritea, the Oroua from the bridge at Awahuri to its junction with the Manawatu River (Kairanga County); the Makakahi within the boundaries of the Eketahuna County; the Mangatainoka River throughout its whole course; the Makuri River and its tributaries (Pahiatua County); the Hautapu from Mataroa southwards to the Rangitikei, the Rangitikei from its mouth to Bulls bridge; the Rangitikei and its tributaries, including the Moawhanga, but not including the Kawhatau, from its junction with the Kawhatau to the northern boundary of the Wellington Acclimatization District: Provided further that in the Hutt River from the Belmont Stream to the Moonshine Bridge, no lures or baits other than artificial ones and bully baits shall be used.

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

7. No person shall have in his possession any salmon 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 Tourists and Health Resorts for the purpose of pisciculture or scientific research: 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.

8. 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 stream of debris from any mining claim.

9. 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.

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. Every trout not exceeding 9 in. in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

12. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish;