Extract from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XI, Issue 26, 21 December 1887, Page 251

Extract from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1887, page 1519.) Salmon and Trout Regulations, Waitaki District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of December, 18S7.

Present : llis Excellency the Governor in Council

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the County of Waitald and the waters thereof, in addition to the regulations made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 59, of the fifteenth day of the same month.

Regulations

15. No person shall net for salmon, salmonidie, or trout in any of the lakes, rivers, streams, or creeks in the County of Waitaki, or in the sea in the vicinity of any river, stream, or creek which is within the said county, except for scientific or pisicultural purposes, and then only by direction or permission of the Secretary to the Waitaki County Acclimatisation Society. Any person netting for indigenous fish in any bay or harbour, or near the mouth of any river, stream, or creek, which is within the said county, shall immediately return into the water alive any salmon, salmonidse, or trout which may be caught in their nets. 16. No person shall use stake-nets in or near the mouth of any lake, river, stream, or creek in the said county. 17. An3 r person committing a breach of either or any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds. FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.