TROUT FISHING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13395, 19 September 1907, Page 3

TROUT FISHING.

THE li'EW REGULATIONS. , THE MINISTER'S EXPLANATION. ' - Special—By Telegraph. . WELLINGTON, .September' 18. Tlie member lor Waitaki asked che Minister i'or Marine whether lie liaci eonsid'ei:>d' the representations made to him by the Acclimatisation Societies as to the impracticable nature of tii? regulations lor trout-fishing published in the Gazette of 29th August last, in particular as to limitation of the weiglit of li.'h that may be taken in any one day, and was ha aware that 111115" limitation to 201b might mean, in the cat;e of soma rivers only a single hill. 'llr.- Minister pointed out that some Acclimatisation Societies appeared to have misunderstood the roguluiioiia refeired toTliey a,s« general' regulations whidx are only operative in districts which have no local regulations dealing with the matters provided for in thevl: gen-tral regulations. It was' specially provia'ec! in them that they were aaibject to any special regulations lit), force in any district. If the l(%llregtilatioas of any district did not contain a provision ;u; to the mimbsr or weifflf -«f trout that a person might take in <@e. day, tlia general regulation as to this appli-.s, but local regulations could be made by the Governor-in-Oounoil at the request 'of an Acclimatisation Society fixing a different limit or deeltwing that the general regulations do r.ot apply to the district. The Waitaki-Waiimue Society had askid that a local regulation might be made declaring 'that th>3 general regulation as to the .number .and weight ol trout should not apply to its district, and ik: request would be .acceded to. 'Die local regulations which provide far halfseason licenses, and which, allow the use of worms "for bait, were not interfered