Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIX, Issue 11, 29 May 1895, Page 87

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1895, pages 843 and 847.) Prescribing a Close Season for Fish in the Blake River, or Waimca Creek, Westland. GLASGOW, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this ninth day of May, 1895. Present: The Honourable the Premier presiding in Council. WHEREAS by “ The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884 \ (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations (which shall have force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein) providing for, among other things, the more effectual protection and improvement of “ fish,” as defined by the said Act, and for setting apart any river or other fresh or salt waters for the natural or artificial propagation of fish, and for prohibiting for any period fishing in any waters, river, or stream in which young fish or spawn have been placed or deposited : And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth with respect to fish liberated, inhabiting,

or found in the waters of the Blake River, otherwise known as the Waimea Creek, in the County of Westland : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto ; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall take effect on and after the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall have force and effect in that portion of the Blake River, otherwise known as the Waimea Creek, defined in the said regulations.

SCHEDULE

Regulations.

1. All that portion of the Blake River, otherwise known as the Waimea Creek, in the County of Westland, extending from half a mile above the point at which the Christchurch Road crosses the said river to one mile and a half below the said point (the said river being a stream in which salmon and trout have been liberated), is hereby set apart for the natural or artificial propagation of fish. 2. No person shall fish for, take, or catch any fish in the above-described portion of the said river or creek within a period of two years from the date of the publication hereof. 3. Any person committing a breach of the above regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £1 and not exceeding £SO. 4. Every penalty imposed by these regulations may be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Crown Prosecutors appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 20th May, 1895. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Michael Hannan, Esq., and James Park, Esq., to be Crown Prosecutors at Greymouth and Hokitika respectively. W. P. REEVES.

Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 21st May, 1895. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Joseph William Poynton, Esq., J.P., to be a Stipendiary Magistrate, to exercise the ordinary and extended jurisdiction under “The Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1893,” and also to be a Warden for the Otago Mining District. W. P. REEVES.