Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 4, 12 February 1902, Page 39

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1902, pages 228, 229, 240, 241, and 243.) Regulations for Trout, die., Fishing, County of Westland Acclimatisation District. RANFURLY, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1902.

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 County of Westland Acclimatisation District—a district duly appointed under “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880 ” —and the waters thereof, except as hereinafter mentioned; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect on and after the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette. Regulations. 1. Licenses to fish for trout in all the waters of the County of Westland Acclimatisation District (with the exception of the Kanieri River, in which fishing is prohibited) will be issued by the Secretary of the Westland Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of twenty shillings shall be charged: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the said Secretary to issue a license: Provided further that it shall be lawful for the said Secretary to issue licenses for

the whole season to women for the sum of five shillings each ; and to boys under sixteen years of age for the sum of ten shillings each ; and to men, on and after the twentieth day of December in any year, for the sum of twelve shillings and sixpence each. 2. Licenses when issued as aforesaid for the whole season shall entitle the person named therein to fish in any of the said waters from the first day of October in any one year to the fifteenth day of April in the year following; hut no such license shall confer any right of entry upon the land of any person without his consent. 3. No person shall fish for, take, catch, or kill, or have in his possession, or attempt to fish for, take, catch, or kill, in any manner whatever, any of the salmonidse or trout except during the abovementioned period. 4. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to fish with rod and line only, and with the following baits: Natural or artificial fly, natural or artificial minnovv and any small indigenous fish, grasshoppers, beetles, spiders, caterpillars, creepers, and worms. 5. No person shall use any other bait, or any method, device, or contrivance of any sort or kind whatever for the purpose of fishing for, taking, catching, or killing trout, except a rod or line, and a landing-net or gaff for fish taken with rod and line.

6. No cross-line fishing, stroke-hauling, or any other unsportsmanlike device shall be used for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing trout; nor shall any of the baits abovementioned be used with any medicated or chemical preparation whatever.

7. No person shall take or attempt to take trout without a license; and every person taking or attempting to take trout shall, on demand of any ranger, constable, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, constable, or person his license and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout.

8. Every trout not exceeding nine inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed in any of the said waters any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish. This shall not apply to debris or tailings from mining claims. 10. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon parr or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever ; and any of the abovenamed taken by accident or otherwise shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person other than is provided by the regulations for taking lake trout shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, or have in his possession for purpose of sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidse, trout, perch, tench, or carp, or take, or fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidse, trout, perch, tench, or carp, in order to make sale of same. 12. Any fish-dealer having on his business premises any of the salmonidse, trout, perch, tench, or carp, shall be deemed to have them in his possession for the purpose of sale.

13. No person shall put, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, for any purpose whatever, any net of any description (except a landing-net) in any of the rivers or streams in the said district, or within half a mile of the mouth or entrance of any such waters, except as may be provided in regulations authorising the taking of lake trout. 14. Licenses to fish for perch, carp, and tench only, in all the waters of the County of Westland Acclimatisation District, will be issued by the Secretary of the society, and for any such license a fee of five shillings shall be paid: Provided that it shall not be obligatory upon the said Secretary to issue a license: Provided further that a license to fish for trout shall be deemed to include permission, subject to these regulations, to fish for perch, tench, or carp. 15. No person shall take, catch, or kill any perch or tench under six inches in length; nor shall any perch, tench, or carp be taken, caught, or killed at all, or had in possession of any person, between the sixteenth day of April and the first day of December in any year. 16. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be more than five pounds nor less than five shillings.

ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council

Reserve between Milford Sound and Te Anau for Preservation of Native and Imported Game declared. RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that native game and imported game shall not be taken or killed within those portions of the Counties of Wallace and Lake more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

All that area in the Land District of Otago bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the west coast bearing

north 45° west from Mount Sutherland; thence by a right line to the said Mount Sutherland ; thence by the summit of the Darran Mountains to Mount Christina ; thence by the watershed over Mount Anau to Skelmorlie Peak; thence by a right line bearing south 75° west to the summit of the Franklin Mountains; thence by the summit of the said Franklin Mountains and the western watershed of the Arthur River to a point on the south shore of Milford Sound opposite Dale Point; thence by a right line to the said Dale Point; and thence by the sea to the place of commencement. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two. JAS. McGOWAN, For Colonial Secretary.

Declaring a Reserve for Imported and Native Game, Lake Hokowhitu and Area adjacent thereto, Borough of Palmerston North.

RANFURLY, Governor

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that imported game and native game shall not be taken or killed within that portion of the Borough of Palmerston North more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

That lake known as Lake Hokowhitu or Te Ngutu Lagoon, situated in the Borough of Palmerston North, and the area within a line running parallel to and 40 chains distant from the shore of that lake. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two. JAS. McGOWAN, For Colonial Secretary.

Animals Protection Acts. —Declaring Reserve for Native and Imported Game, Lake Ohau and Watershed, Mackenzie and Waitaki Counties. RANFURLY, Governor. PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that native and imported game shall not be taken or killed within those portions of the Counties of Mackenzie and Waitaki, in the Canterbury and Otago Land Districts, more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Land Districts of Canterbury and Otago, containing about 294,000 acres, bounded towards the north-west by the summit of the Southern Alps from Mount Jackson to Mount Burns ; thence towards the north and east by the watershed between the River Dobson and the Tasman River to Ben Ohau Range; thence by the summit of that range to Mount Ostler ; thence towards the east by a right line to the Ohau River at a point one mile above the crossing of the road to Pukaki; thence towards the south generally by the leading spur and the watershed between Lake Ohau and the Wairepo River; and towards the west by the watershed between Lake Ohau and the Ahuriri River, and the watershed between the Hopkins and Hunter Rivers to Mount Jackson, the place of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS, For Colonial Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Kumara, appointed. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 27th January, 1902. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Thomas Ryan 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 Kumara, vice Constable Mark Cassin. J. G. WARD.

Inspectors of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour, Wellington, Ist February, 1902. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Thomas Simpson Charles Kemp and Constable James Rock to be Inspectors under “ The Factories Act, 1901.” C. H. MILLS, For Minister of Labour.