Extract from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 20, 1 October 1884, Page 168

Extract from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette , 1884, page 1384.) Conditions for Trout-fishing in Wellington.

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 District of Wellington :

1. Licenses to fish for trout in the Hutt, Waiwetu, and Wainuiomata Rivers, in the Provincial District of Wellington, will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, at Wellington; and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged : Provided it shall not be obligatory upon the said Secretary to issue a license. 2. The Secretary of the said acclimatisation society may issue day licenses to bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the Wellington Acclimatisation District, on their introduction to him by any two members of the said society, and on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day’s fishing: Provided that this payment may be remitted if the applicant be a member of or hold a valid license from any other society in New Zealand which grants the like privilege. 3. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and line for trout, and may use a landing-net or gaff to secure any trout caught with such rod and line, in the above-named rivers, between the hours of five a.m. and ten p.m., from the first

day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, both inclusive. 4. No license shall authorize any person other than the person named therein to fish, and that with artificial fly or minnow only.

5. Any person fishing cither without a license, or with any other bait than as aforesaid, or 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 j>erson, r'anger, police officer, or constable his license, or the contents of his creel, basket, or bag, or the bait used by him for taking fish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 6. All trout not exceeding nine inches in length taken by any person fishing as aforesaid shall bo immediately returned alive to the water; and any person convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 7. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any river or stream within the District of Wellington, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river ox stream ; and all persons offending against tins regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 8. For the purposes of these regulations the mouth of every such river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the same and the sea-shore between such outlets, and shall extend over a radius of one-quarter of a mile from the point or line where the waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea or of any harbour at low water. 9. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream in the said district, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream, 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. 10. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any salmon or trout, or any part thereof; and any person infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

11. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against these regulations the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void. 12. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to prevent any person or persons authorized in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society from taking salmon or trout, or the spawn thereof, for acclimatisation purposes. 13. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the Nciu Zealand Gazette. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

P. A. BUCKLEY