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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 64

and the seashore between the outlets of any such river or stream, and shall extend over a radius of one quarter of a mile from any point in the line where the waters of such river, lake, 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, or any portion thereof.

18. No person shall on any one day take or kill more than fifteen trout, and no person shall continue to fish for trout on any day on which he has already taken or killed fifteen trout.

19. No person shall fish for, take, or kill trout between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 4 a.m. on the following day.

20. Except as provided for by the regulations regarding keeping trout in freezing-works or freezing chambers during the close season which were made by the Governor in Council on the 6th day of October, 1908, and published in the Gazette of the 8th day of the same month, no person shall have in his or her possession, whether frozen, chilled, or otherwise, any trout between the 5th day of May and the 1st day of October in any year: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to any fish taken by officers of the Government or by officers of the Auckland Acclimatization Society for the purpose of fish culture or scientific investigation.

21. No person shall troll from a launch or boat in any portion of Lake Arapuni or in the Waikato River as far south as the junction of the boundary of the Auckland Acclimatization District and the Rotorua Acclimatization District: Provided that in that portion of Lake Arapuni above a point 80 chains from the dam, it shall be legal to troll from boats propelled by oars only.

22. The penalty for every breach of any of the preceding regulations shall be not less than 40s., and not more than £50.

23. No person whilst engaged in fishing for trout or any other acclimatized fish shall use any wire, either plain or twisted, or gimp trace, of a greater gauge than 21 standard, or a rod consisting of only one piece of a greater length than eleven feet. Any person committing a breach of the foregoing regulation shall be liable to a fine of £20.

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SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO FISH.

THE holder of this license [Name in full], of [Address], [Occupation], (who must affix his signature at foot hereof), having this day paid the sum of , is hereby authorized to fish, with one rod and line only, for trout, Atlantic salmon, quinnat salmon and other acclimatized fish in every acclimatization district in New Zealand, except in the Rotorua Acclimatization District and in Taupo waters, from the day of 193 , to the day of , 193 , both days inclusive, subject to the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments, and to the regulations made and for the time being in force thereunder, and subject to the local regulations in force in each acclimatization district.

Dated at , this day of 193 .

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Secretary, Auckland Acclimatization Society.

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License holder.

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

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

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of August, 1931.

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 may be from time to time defined (hereinafter referred to as “the said district”) and the waters thereof; and doth hereby declare that the regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette, supersede all other regulations for the said district, and such regulations are hereby revoked.

REGULATIONS.

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 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 and McGregor, 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 two years prior to his application for such license, 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 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 no person shall use worms or creeper for bait when fishing for trout or other acclimatized fish in the Opihi River below the Pleasant Point traffic-bridge.

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 person shall use bare hooks.

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 whilst engaged in fishing for any acclimatized fish shall 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 eleven feet.

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 by rod and line, and with bait as aforesaid; but a landing-net or gaff may be used to land fish legally caught with such rod and line.

12. No person or persons shall 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 10 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.

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 the Department of Internal Affairs, or of an acclimatization society, for purpose of pisciculture or