Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 3 October 1894, Page 158

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1894, pages 1447, 1448, 1451, 1480, and 1482.) Amended Regulations for Trout-fishing , Nelson District. GLASGOW, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of September, 1894. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. IN pursuance 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 Counties of Waimea and ColHngwood, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, and the waters thereof, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, supersede all regulations at variance therewith. Regulations.

1. Any holder of a license as hereinafter mentioned may fish for trout with one rod and line, and may use a landing-net to secure any trout caught with such rod and line, in the Counties of Waimea and Collingwood, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, and the waters thereof, from the first day of October in any one year to the last day of March in the following year, both inclusive. Such licenses will be issued under the hand of the Honorary Secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of ten shillings will be charged. 2. The Secretary of the said society may issue day licenses to bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the district aforesaid, on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each day’s fishing. 3. No license shall authorise any person other than the person named therein to fish. 4. Any person fishing either without a license, or who shall, on demand of any person holding and showing a license, or on demand of any ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce and show to such person, ranger, police officer, or constable bis license, or the contents of his creel, basket, or bag, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty shillings and not exceeding twenty pounds. 5. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout.

6. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by any person shall be immediately returned alive to the water; and any person convicted of infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty shillings and 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 aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream; and all persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than forty shillings and 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 of not less than forty shillings and not exceeding fifty pounds. 10. If any person shall be convicted of any offence against these regulations the license, if any, held by the offender shall thereupon become void. 11. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Rangiora, appointed. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 15th September, 1894. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable James Johnston

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “ The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the Borough of Rangiora, vice Constable Patrick Costin, transferred.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Land Temporarily reserved Taranaki.

All that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 39 perches, more or less, being part of Block No. XXXVII., Patea Town, Carlyle Survey District. Bounded on the north-east by Derby Street, 400 links ; on the east by Derby Street, 211-3 links ; on the south by Chester Street, 293 links; on the north-west by part Block XXXVII., 144-2 links; on the south-west by part Block XXXVII., 433 links ; and on the north-west by Victoria Street, 250 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less ; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, New Plymouth. For police purposes.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 10th September, 1894. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “ The Factories Act, 1891,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:— Name. District. Constable Robert Rainier Jones .. Queenstown. W. P. REEVES.