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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 or trout between the first day of May and the thirtieth 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 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 state 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.

11. 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.

12. Any person taking or catching any trout not exceeding 9 in. in length from nose to tip of tail, shall immediately return it alive into the water from which the same is taken.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

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

20. 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.

WESTLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Westland Land District bounded on the north by the Grey Acclimatization District, from the mouth of the Taramakau River to the Hurunui Saddle in the Southern Alps; thence towards the south-west by a line along the summit of the said Southern Alps to Mount Aspiring; thence by a right line to the mouth of the Awarua River in Big Bay; thence north-easterly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Taramakau River, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO FISH.

The Fisheries Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

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 with only one rod and line for trout 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 , subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made thereunder, and to the regulations for the time being in force in the Westland Acclimatization District, and to the local regulations for the time being in force in other acclimatization districts.

Dated at this day of , 19 .

Secretary, Westland Acclimatization Society.

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

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Regulations as to Election of Local Committee of Management for Picton Hospital.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1930.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by subsection two of section two of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act, 1929, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth in respect to the mode of election and the tenure of office of persons elected or appointed as members of the local committee of management for the Picton Hospital.

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REGULATIONS.

1. IN these regulations, where not inconsistent with the context—

“Committee” means the local committee of management established under section 2 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act, 1929:

“Picton Rural District” means that part of the County of Marlborough which was comprised in the Picton Road District immediately prior to the merging of that district in the said county:

“Picton rural electors” means those electors of the County of Marlborough who are occupiers of rateable property within the Picton Rural District.

2. The members of the committee to be elected respectively by the electors of the Borough of Picton and by the Picton rural electors shall be elected in the manner provided by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, and its amendments, for the election of members of Borough Councils and County Councils respectively.

3. The Marlborough County Council shall prepare from the county electors’ roll of the said county a separate roll of the Picton rural electors, and shall from time to time, as necessitated by amendments made in the county electors roll, amend such separate roll.

4. The separate roll so prepared shall be the roll of persons entitled to vote at any election of members of the committee elected by the Picton rural electors.

5. The first election of members shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, simultaneously with the election of representatives of the said borough and county to the Marlborough Hospital Board, and the Returning Officers for the election of such representatives shall be the Returning Officers for the election of members of the said local committee of management by the electors of the Picton Borough and Picton Rural District respectively.

6. The voting-papers provided for the election of the committee shall be different in colour from those provided for the election of members of the Board.

7. Subject to Regulation 10 hereof the members so elected to the Committee shall hold office until the election of their successors in accordance with the next succeeding regulation.

8. On every day appointed for holding the ordinary general election of members of the Picton Borough Council and Marlborough County Council respectively there shall be held an election of members to represent that borough and the