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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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then, and in any of the said cases, this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council without any notice to the company, or other proceedings whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

14. In the event of this Order in Council being revoked for any reason whatsoever, or upon expiry of the period for which the license is granted, the company shall, if required by the Minister so to do, remove the said wharf, tramway, and coal-bins entirely from the site, and restore the site to its original condition within three months from the date of the revocation or expiry, as the case may be; and if the company fails to do so the Minister may cause the said wharf, tramway, and coal-bins to be removed and the site so restored, and may recover the costs incurred by the said removal and restoration from the company.

15. The erection of the said wharf, tramway, and coal-bins shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and conditions of this license.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Regulations for Trout, Perch, or Trench Fishing in South Canterbury Acclimatization District, and making others in lieu thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 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 the South Canterbury Acclimatization District as the same is hereinafter defined in the First Schedule hereto and the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that the 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.

R E G U L A T I O N S.

1. LICENSES to fish for trout or other acclimatized fish may be issued by the Secretary of the South Canterbury Acclimatization Society, or by any one authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, and such licenses 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 to any special regulations made thereunder and to these regulations:

Provided that the period for fishing in the waters named and known as Lakes Alexandrina, McGregor, Tui, Hartley, Stony, and Sunday, and flowing into or running out of these lakes, shall be from the 1st day of November in any one year till the 30th day of April in the following year:

Provided further that such 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 or other acclimatized fish or of any regulation made thereunder.

2. Such licenses shall be issued at the following rates: Licenses for men, £1 for the whole season. Licenses for women and for boys attending school or under the age of sixteen years, 5s. for the whole season.

3. Every such license shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

4. No person shall fish with more than one rod and line, and with the following baits only: Natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnow, and any small indigenous fish, grasshopper, beetle, spider, caterpillar, creeper, or worm:

Provided that it shall be unlawful to use worm when fishing for trout or other acclimatized fish in the Opihi River, or to use any bait other than artificial fly when fishing in Lakes Tui, Hartley, Stony, and Sunday.

5. Not more than one bait shall be used in spoon and/or minnow and bait fishing, excepting in the Rangitata River, where not more than two live baits may be used, and no spoon or minnow shall be used with more than three sets of triple hooks.

6. No bare hooks shall be used.

7. Not more than three flies shall be used for fly-fishing on any one cast in the day time, and not more than two at night, and no double-hooked flies shall be used.

8. No person fishing for trout shall use any trace or cast of a greater gauge than 21 standard wire gauge.

9. No person shall use any trace of a greater length than 6 ft.

10. No person shall put, stake, set, drag, draw, or allow to be put, staked, set, dragged, drawn or placed for any purpose whatsoever, any net of any description in any lake, river, stream, or dam, except a landing or hand net, used for the purpose of landing fish legally caught on rod and line:

Provided, however, that nothing in this regulation shall prevent any person netting for indigenous fish in the mouth of any river or stream as described in Regulation 18 hereof.

11. No person shall take trout or other acclimatized fish by crossline fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device, and except as provided in the Fisheries Act, 1908, or in these or any other regulations made thereunder, no trout or other acclimatized fish shall be taken or caught by any means whatsoever other than a rod and line, bait as aforesaid, but a landing-net or gaff may be used to land fish legally caught with rod and line.

12. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use a torch and/or light, spear or gaff in the Opihi River, for the purpose of catching fish of any description, except trout lawfully caught on rod and line:

Provided that nothing contained in this regulation shall prevent any person or persons from spearing flounders in the Milford Lagoon, seawards from a point opposite Milford Road, leading to the lagoon on the east side, and marked by a post painted white.

13. No person shall take or attempt to take trout or other acclimatized fish without a license, and shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, constable, or license-holder his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout or other acclimatized fish.

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

Provided that the minimum size of trout which may be taken from Lakes Tui, Hartley, Stony, and Sunday shall be 12 in.

15. No person shall take or catch more than twenty-five trout, irrespective of weight, in any one day, except in an angling competition duly authorized by the society.

16. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ 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 Department of Internal Affairs for purposes of pisciculture or scientific investigation:

Provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the provisions of any regulations now in force or hereafter made with respect to keeping trout or other acclimatized fish in freezing or cool chambers during the close season hereinbefore mentioned.

17. No person shall cast or throw into any stream or waters in which trout 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 or waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, lime, sheep-dip, flaxmill 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.

18. For the purposes 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.

19. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout or any part thereof.

20. It shall be unlawful to fish for trout in the waters of Lake Alexandrina by the method known as trolling.

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 every breach of any of these regulations shall be not less than £2 and not more than £50.