APRIL 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 673

Amending Regulations under the Fisheries Act, 1908.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of April, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council of the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and published in the Gazette of the seventh day of the following month, at page 1598, regulations with respect to fish, shell-fish, oysters, seals, and whales inhabiting the waters of the Dominion therein mentioned were made:

And whereas it is desirable to amend the said regulations in the manner hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifth section of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the hereinbefore-recited regulations in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

1. Regulation 3 of the hereinbefore-recited regulations is hereby amended by deleting all reference to blue cod and rock-cod.

2. No person shall take, buy, sell, expose for sale, or have in possession any blue cod of less length than 13 in. in the natural state, or of less length than 10¾ in. when properly headed—that is, with the head cut off at the back of the eyes:

Provided that, in the case of blue cod taken by any person other than a licensed fisherman for his own use and not for sale, the length of any such fish shall be not less than 12 in. in the natural state or less than 10 in. when properly headed as described above:

Provided further that it shall be lawful to have at any time for use as bait in any boat while used for fishing not more than two blue cod of a less length than that last hereinbefore prescribed.

3. No person, unless he is a member of the crew of a licensed fishing-boat actually engaged in fishing for purposes of sale, shall in any one day take more than twelve blue cod from those waters of Queen Charlotte Sound, Tory Channel, and Pelorus Sound, and of the sea within straight lines drawn from Cape Koamaru to Cape Jackson, thence to Cape Stephens, and from Ragged Point on D’Urville Island to Cape Soucis.

4. Any person taking any blue cod in excess of the numbers respectively prescribed by these regulations shall immediately return the same alive to the waters whence they were taken.

5. For the purposes of these regulations the term “blue cod” refers to the species Parapercis colias (Forster).

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Amending General Fisheries Regulations prohibiting Danish Seine-netting and Trawling in Pelorus Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Admiralty Bay.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of April, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section five of the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of fish, and prohibiting any specified method of taking fish, or the use of any specified engines, tackle, or apparatus for taking the same:

And whereas it is expedient to make regulations amending the regulations prohibiting Danish seine-netting and trawling within the waters hereinafter specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations.

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REGULATIONS.

1. Regulation 55 (m) of the General Fisheries Regulations of the 29th day of June, 1932, is hereby amended by adding the following proviso thereto:—

“Provided that from the 1st day of April to the 31st day of July in the year 1936 it shall be lawful to use a Danish seine-net in Pelorus Sound outside a straight line drawn from Tawera Point to Opani-Aputa Point, which forms the north-western and south-eastern heads of Popoure Reach, and in Queen Charlotte Sound outside a line drawn from Dieffenbach Point to Bull Point.”

2. No person shall, during the month of March, 1936, use a Danish seine-net for the purpose of taking fish in that portion of Admiralty Bay southward of a line from Half Way Point, D’Urville Island, to Harding Point, as shown on Admiralty Chart No. 2684.

3. Regulation 135 (14) of the General Fisheries Regulations of the 29th June, 1932, is hereby amended by adding the following proviso thereto:—

“Provided that from the 1st day of April to the 31st day of July in the year 1936 it shall be lawful to use a trawl having a ground-rope or foot-rope not exceeding a length of 90 ft. between each otter-board and having the mesh of the cod end not less than 4½ in. and which is towed for not more than one hour between the shooting and hauling of the net in Pelorus Sound outside a straight line drawn from Tawera Point to Opani-Aputa Point, which forms the north-western and south-eastern heads of Popoure Reach, and in Queen Charlotte Sound outside the line drawn from Dieffenbach Point to Bull Point.”

4. Any person committing a breach of these regulations shall be liable to a fine of £50.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Constituting the Redwood Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3370.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of April, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on petition in that behalf signed by a majority of the persons qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers’ list for any proposed district, constitute and declare any area of land of not less than one thousand acres a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act:

And, whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section thirty of the said Act, a petition has been received praying that the area of land described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and it is deemed expedient to give effect to the prayer of the petition accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute, by the specific name of the “Redwood Rabbit District,” and declare that area of land defined in the Schedule hereto to be a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and doth hereby further declare that the basis on which the Board to be established for the said district shall first levy its general rate shall be on the basis of the acreage of the rateable property in the said district.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing an area of 48,900 acres, more or less, bounded as follows: Commencing at the junction of Donald’s Creek and the Awatere River in Block XVII, Taylor Pass Survey District; thence along the eastern bank of Donald’s Creek to the Awatere Road, and along the southern side of the Awatere Road to the Taylor Pass Road; thence along the eastern boundary of the Taylor Pass Road to a point where the Taylor River crosses the said road at Section 1, Block VIII, Taylor Pass Survey District; thence along the western bank of the Taylor River to the south-eastern corner of Section 9, Block III, Taylor Pass Survey District, and along the western boundary of the said Section 9 to