Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 24, 19 November 1879, Page 207

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1879, pages 1566, 1567, and 1568.) Conditions for Trout Fishing in Otago.

Hercules Robinson, Governor.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “ The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” His Excellency tho Governor doth hereby make the following regulations for the District of Otago:— 1. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and line for trout in all the streams and lakes within and forming the boundaries of the following district (except the Water of Leith), from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, both inclusive, viz.: All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded on the East and South by the ocean, from Shag Point to the mouth of the Mataura Diver ; on the West, South-west, and South by the Mataura River and the Counties of Southland and Wallace; on the North-west by the ocean ; and on the North, North-west, and North-east by the Counties of Westland and Waitaki. 2. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and line for trout in tho Water of Leith, in the months of November, December, January, and February next ensuing.

3. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the above-described district will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society of Dunedin, and for every license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged. 4. No license shall authorize any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and line. 5. Any person fishing without a license, or any person who shall on demand of any person holding and showing a license, or on tho demand of any ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce and show to such person, ranger, police officer, or constable his license, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned alive to the water, and any person convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds sterling, and his license shall thereupon become void. 7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any lake, river, or stream within the above-described district, and all persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 8. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any lake, river, or stream in the said district, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. 9. These regulations shall come into force as from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. John Hall.

Conditions tor Trout Fishing in Southland.

Hercules Robinson, Governor.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “ The Salmon and Trout Act., 1867,” His Excellency tho Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby'make the following regulations for tho District of Southland :

Regulations. 1. These regulations shall come in force as from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

2. Any holder of a license, as hereinafter mentioned, may fish with rod and line for trout in all the streams and lakes within and forming the boundaries of the district bounded on the East by the Mataura Hirer, on the North by the County of Lake, and on the West and South by the sea from Bligh Sound to the mouth of the River Mataura, from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, until the thirtyfirst day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, excepting in lie Rivers Oreti and Aparima, and their affluents.

3. Licenses to fish with rod and line within the said boundaries will be issued under the hand of the Secretary to the Southland Acclimatisation Society at Invercargill, and for every license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged. 4. No license shall authorize any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and line. 5. Any person fishing without a license, or any person who shall on demand of any person holding and showing a license, or on the demand of any ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce and show to such person, police officer, or constable, his license, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned alive to the water, and any person convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds sterling, and his license shall thereupon become void. 7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any lake, river, or stream within the above district, and all persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 8. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any lake, river, or stream within the above district, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. John Hall.

Inspector of Weights and .Measures, Christchurch District, Appointed. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 4th November, 1879. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Thomas Stephenson

to be Inspector of Weights and Measures for the District of Christchurch. John Hall. Inspector of Weights and Measures Appointed. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 4th November, 1879. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures for the districts set opposite their names : Name. District. Sergeant Patrick O’Neill... ... District of Dunstan. Sergeant John Morton ~. ... District of Wakatipu. Sergeant Edward Morton... ... District of Mount Ida' John Hall.