Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 21, 17 October 1883, Page 174

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette 1883, page 1420.) Conditions for Trout-fishing in Nelson. Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. In pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby make the following regulations for the Provincial District of Nelson: — 1. Any holder of a license as hereinafter mentioned may fish with rod and line for trout in the Maitai and Wairnea Rivers and their affluents from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eiglity-tliree, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive, but only between the hours of five o’clock in the morning and ten o’clock in the evening. 2. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the said waters will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society, at Nelson, and for every license a fee of ten shillings will be charged. 3. No license shall authorize any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and line. 4. 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, ranger, police officer, or constable his license, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 5. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned alive into 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 beeome void. 6. 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 ail persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 7. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allow's to bo put, thrown, or placed, into any lake, river, or stream in the said district any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any matter or iiquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. 8. These regulations shall come into force as from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-tliree. Edwd. T. CONOLLY, (for the Colonial Secretary.)

♦ Conditions for Trout-fishing in Wellington. Wm. F. DRUMMOND .TERVOIS, * Governor. In pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “ The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” His Excellency the Governor of tho Colony of Now Zealand doth horoby

make the following regulations for tho Provincial District o Wellington:— 1. These regulations shall come into force as from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. 2. Any holder of a license, as hereinafter mentioned, may fish with rod and line, but with artificial flies only as bait for trout in the Wainuiomata River, from the first day of’ October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and in the ITutt River and its tributaries, except the Pakuratahi, from the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, but only between the hours of five o’clock in the morning and ten o’clock in the evening. 3. Licenses to fish with rod and line as aforesaid in the said waters will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, at Wellington, 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 and such bait as aforesaid. 5. Any person fishing without a license or otherwise than as above, or any person who shall, on demand of any person holding and showing a license, or on the demand of any 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 eight inches in length taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned alive to the river or stream; 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. No person shall use any live bait, ground bait, net, or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any of the aforesaid rivers or streams, 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 river, stream, or lake in the said Provincial District of Wellington 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 October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. Edwd. T. CONOLLY, (for tho Colonial Secretary.)