JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1601

55. No person shall haul or use a Danish seine net or a purse-seine net for the purpose of taking fish within the waters respectively specified within the following boundaries:—

Mahurangi Harbour.

(a) Mahurangi Harbour, inside a straight line drawn from the south head to the north head at the entrance thereof.

Bon Accord Harbour.

(b) Inside a straight line drawn from the outer point of Fishermen’s Bay (Accord Point) to Momona Point (otherwise known as Mansion House Point), Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island.

Manukau Harbour.

(c) Manukau Harbour, inside a straight line drawn from the signal-staff on the South Head, to the eastern extreme of Paratutai Island.

Kaipara Harbour.

(d) Kaipara Harbour, inside a straight line drawn from the outer end of North Sandspit (otherwise known as Dry Spit) to Puki-tu.

Mercury Bay.

(e) Mercury Bay, within a straight line drawn from the southern end of Koranga Island to the north-easternmost point of Te Tui (Mahurangi) Island; thence by straight line to Heriheri-tauru. As the said area is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 6492, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

Tauranga Harbour.

(f) Tauranga Harbour, within a straight line drawn from Te Ho Point on the north side of the Kati Kati entrance to Mount Maunganui. As the said area is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 6518, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

Bay of Islands.

(g) Bay of Islands: Commencing at Poraenui Point, a straight line from there to Toketoke Point; thence to Taepka Point; thence to the N.W. point of Motu Arohia (Robertson’s Island); thence along the high-water mark to the S.E. point of Motu Arohia; thence in a straight line to the southernmost point of Motu Rua (Mita’s Island), continuing along the high-water line to the most easterly point of the same island; thence in a straight line to the S.E. point (most southerly point) of Motukiekie; thence in a straight line to the most westerly point of Ornapukapuka; thence along high-water mark to the most easterly point of Ornapukapuka; and thence in a straight line to the most westerly point of Richard’s Peninsula; thence generally by high-water mark of the mainland to the point of commencement.

Aotea Harbour.

(h) Aotea Harbour and those waters of the sea confined within the arc of a circle having a radius of one and a half nautical miles from Kahua Point, and as the said area is delineated on plan marked M.D. 6980.

Kawhia Harbour.

(i) Kawhia Harbour and those waters of the sea confined within the arc of a circle having a radius of one and a half nautical miles from Uravitiiki Point, Southern Head, at the entrance to Kawhia Harbour, as the said area is delineated on plan marked M.D. 6980.

Raglan Harbour.

(j) Raglan Harbour and those waters of the sea confined within the arc of a circle having a radius of one and a half nautical miles from Rangitoto Point, Northern Head, at the entrance to Raglan Harbour, as such area is delineated on plan marked M.D. 6981.

Hawke Bay.

(k) All that area of tidal water on the coast of the County of Hawke’s Bay bounded as follows: On its landward side by high-water mark ordinary spring tides, on its northern side from Ilaupouri, and on its southern side from Te Karamea, each by a straight line drawn east (090°); and on its seaward side by a straight line joining the northern and the southern side at a distance of three nautical miles from its landward side. As the same is shown and delineated, coloured blue, on plan marked M.D 6108, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

Porirua Harbour.

(l) Porirua Harbour, within a straight line drawn from the South Head to the North Head (Te Rewarewa Point). As the said area is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 6500, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds.

(m) Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds within straight lines drawn from the West Head to East Head of Tory Channel, and from Cape Koamaru to Cape Jackson, and thence to Harding Point. As the said area is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 5578, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

Lyttelton Harbour.

(n) Lyttelton Harbour and adjacent waters within a straight line drawn from the Lighthouse on Godley Head to the Wakaroa Point on the eastern head of Pigeon Bay.

Akaroa Harbour.

(o) Akaroa Harbour within a straight line drawn from the outermost point of Iron Head (Timutimu) to Trueni Point.

Le Bons Bay.

(p) Le Bon’s Bay, Banks Peninsula, inside a right line drawn from the outermost point of Steep Head to the outermost point of Islet Head.

56. Any person committing a breach of Regulations 49 to 55, inclusive, is liable to a fine of £50.

MULLET.

57. The period from the 1st day of December in one year to the 28th day of February in the next succeeding year, both days inclusive, is hereby prescribed a close season in respect of the fish of the species of mugil known as mullet or ikaae, during which close season it shall be unlawful for any person to take any such fish.

58. The foregoing regulation shall, until revoked or altered, have force and effect in all waters in the North Island of New Zealand: Provided that these regulations—

(a) Shall not operate or have effect within the Borough of Thames, nor within that area covered by the waters of the sea and the tidal waters of the same which lie to the south of a line drawn from Tararu Point, Thames, to the extreme point on the left bank at the mouth of the Makaka Creek, in the Wharekawa Survey District. As the said area is coloured red on the plan marked M.D. 3124, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington:

(b) Shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act on the west coast of the North Island between Cape Terawhiti and Cape Maria van Diemen:

(c) Shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act on the north-eastern, north, and eastern portion of the coast of the North Island between Cape Maria van Diemen and Cape Karaka, Rangauuu Bay:

(d) Shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act on the eastern portion of the east coast of the North Island between Cape Karaka, Rangauuu Bay, and the south head of Whangaruru Harbour:

(e) Shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act inside a line drawn from Cape Kidnappers to the southernmost point of the Mahia Peninsula:

(f) Shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act in the Hawrahi Gulf and Whangarei Harbour.

MUSSELS.

59. Mussels shall be subject to the provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-two of the Fisheries Act, 1908, relating to the granting of exclusive licenses to take oysters.

60. (i) No person shall take, or attempt to take, from the tidal lands and tidal waters hereinafter set forth, the shell-fish called mussels for the purpose of canning or otherwise preserving the same, or for selling fresh :—

Tauranga Harbour.

(a) Tauranga Harbour situated north of a straight line drawn in a due easterly direction from Kauri Village on the mainland to the opposite shore on Matakana Island, and within the outermost headlands of the Katikati entrance to the said harbour,