Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIX, Issue 10, 15 May 1895, Page 82

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1895, pages 729, 730, and 772.)

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 6th May, 1895. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned officer to be Inspector of Factories under “ The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:— Name. District. Gon&table Alfred Armstrong (North Island of the Colony Pennefather of New Zealand and the ( islands adjacent thereto. Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1895. john McKenzie, For Minister of Labour.

Prescribing Minimum Size or Weight at which Fish may be taken.

GLASGOW, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1895. Present

The Honourable the Premier presiding in Council. WHEREAS by Order in Council dated on the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, His Excellency the then Governor, pursuant to power in that behalf conferred by “ The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” made certain regulations thereunder, and amongst them a regulation, numbered ten, providing, inter alia, that no person should take, buy, sell, expose lor sale, or have in possession any fish of the species enumerated in the Schedule thereto of a less weight or size than that set opposite the name of such fish: And whereas the aforesaid Act is repealed, but the said regulations are continued in force by virtue of the repealing Act, to wit, “ Tho Sea Fisheries Act, 1894 ” (hereinafter called “ the said Act”): And whereas by the said Act it is provided that the Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing, inter alia, the minimum size or weight of any fish that may be taken : And whereas the aforesaid regulation, numbered ten, has been found to work hardship in certain cases: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of tho powers conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other the powers and authorities him enabling in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the aforesaid regulation numbered ten, and also the aforesaid Schedule, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulation, that is to say : Regulation. Any person who takes, buys, sells, exposes for sale, or has in possession any fish of any of the species enumerated in the Schedule hereto of a less weight or size than that set opposite the name of such fish in the said Schedule, is liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds : Provided that for the purposes of this regulation, and during a period of three months from the date hereof (but no longer), a person shall not be deemed to take or have in possession any fish if, having unintentionally caught the

same in a net or seine of lawful mesh whilst lawfully fishing therewith, he returns all such fish to the water when sorting out the haul.

Description of Fish. Weight in Ounces or Pounds Avoirdupois. Length in Inches. Hapuku Five pounds. Kahawai Six ounces. Snapper.. One pound. Tarakihi Four ounces. Trumpeter One pound. Moki Eight ounces. Barracouta Plight ounces. Horse-mackerel .. Four ounces. Trevally .. Four ounces. Kingfish.. Three pounds. Warehou Four ounces. Mackerel Eight ounces. Blue-cod Eight ounces. Rock-cod Eight ounces. Red-cod .. Eight ounces. Gurnard Four ounces. Mullet .. Four ounces. Butterfish Four ounces. Flounder Nine inches.* Soles Niue inches.* Garfish .. Nine inches.* Herring .. •• Five inches.* * Measured from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Schedule.