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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

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 in force in the said district, and to these regulations:
Provided that the Secretary may refuse to issue a license to
any person who (within the previous five years) has been
convicted of any breach of the provisions of any Act relating
to fishing for salmon, trout, perch, tench, or other acclimatized
fish, or of any regulations 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 attend-
   ing school or under the age of sixteen, or to women, at a
   fee of 5s. for each license so issued. 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, tench, or other acclimatized fish shall not
   be fished for, taken, or killed otherwise than with one rod
   and line, but a landing net or gaff may be used to secure any
   trout, perch, tench, or other acclimatized fish caught with
   such rod and line, and no lures or baits other than natural or
   artificial flies, insects, worms, or fish shall be used with such
   rod and line.

5. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with more
   than two flies, or one fly and one minnow, or one fly and one
   natural bait, or two natural baits affixed to any trace. No
   fly shall have more than one hook, and it shall not be lawful
   to use more than one lead or sinker, and such lead or sinker
   must be tied above all flies, minnow, or natural bait used.

6. It shall be unlawful to use any wire, either plain or
   twisted, or gimp trace of a greater gauge than 21 standard
   wire gauge, or a rod consisting of only one piece of a greater
   length than 11ft.

7. It shall be unlawful to use any wire or gimp trace of a
   greater length than 6 ft. The provisions contained in this
   and the two regulations immediately preceding shall not apply
   to single-hooked size 10 (old numbers), or smaller, or to wire
   traces not exceeding 28 standard wire gauge.

8. It shall be unlawful for any person to use bare hooks or
   set rod or line for the purpose of taking trout.

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

10. No person shall take, kill, or have in his possession any
    trout, perch, tench, or other acclimatized fish between the 1st
    day of May and the 30th day of September in any year, or
    any salmon between the 15th day of May and the 30th day
    of September, which periods are hereby appointed the close
    seasons for such fish respectively: 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 investiga-
    tion: 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 such fish in
    freezing or cool chambers during the close season hereinbefore
    mentioned.

11. No person shall cast or throw into any stream in which
    salmon, trout, perch, tench, or other acclimatized fish 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.

12. Save as provided herein or by any other regulations
    under the said Acts, no person shall take, fish for, catch, or
    kill in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any
    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.

13. No person shall fish for trout, perch, tench, 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 salmon, trout,
    perch, tench, or other acclimatized fish.

14. Every trout not exceeding 10 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.

15. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, wilful foul-hooking,
    spearing, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used
    for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing salmon, trout,
    perch, tench, or other acclimatized fish; nor shall any baits
    be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

16. Except as provided in these or other regulations under
    the said Acts, no person shall put, throw, drag, draw, or
    place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed,
    for any purpose whatsoever any net of any description except
    a landing-net, bully, or silvery net, or whitebait net in any
    of the waters, lakes, rivers, or streams in the said district
    in which salmon, trout, perch, tench, or other acclimatized
    fish have been placed or exist, or in the outlet, mouth, or
    entrance of any such waters, lakes, rivers, or streams.

17. It shall be unlawful for any person to troll from any
    launch or boat on any lake or river.

18. For the purpose of these regulations the mouth or
    entrance of every such 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.

19. No person shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, trout,
    perch, tench, or any part thereof.

20. Any regulation regarding the number or weight of
    trout which a person may take or catch in any one day or
    other specified period which has been made by general regula-
    tions under the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments or
    regulations shall not apply to the said district.

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

22. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations
    shall not be more than £50.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

ASHBURTON 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 North Canterbury Acclimatization District;
on the south-east by the sea; and on the south-west generally
by the middle of the Rangitata River to Forest Creek, by
the Forest Creek to its source in the Two Thumbs Range;
thence by a line along the summit of the Two Thumbs Range
to the summit of the Southern Alps, the boundary of the
Westland Acclimatization District, the point of commence-
ment.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO FISH.

The Fisheries Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

The holder of this license [Name in full], of [Address], [Call-
ing or occupation], having this day paid the sum of £ , is
hereby authorized to fish with only one rod and line for trout
and other acclimatized fish in every acclimatization district
in New Zealand, except in Rotorua Acclimatization District
and Taupo waters, from the day of 19 , to
the day of 19 , and for salmon until the
15th day of May, 19 , subject to the said Acts and to the
general regulations made thereunder and to the regulations
for the time being in force in the Ashburton Acclimatization
District, and to the local regulations for the time being in
force in other acclimatization districts.

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

Secretary, Ashburton Acclimatization Society.

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

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Notifying the proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the
Taranaki Land District for other Land.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land
Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the
public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land
which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in
exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such
exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of
exchange:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it
is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First
Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule
hereto, and the owners of the land described in the Second
Schedule have agreed to such exchange.