EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLI, Issue 3, 26 January 1916, Page 55

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1916, pages 123, 128, 129, and 132.) ' Varying Close Season for Mallet in North Island. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1916. Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council. WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 67, of the first day of the following month, regulations were made prescribing a close season for the species of mugil known as mullet or kanae in the North Island of New Zealand :

And whereas such close season has since been varied in various parts of the North Island, and it is desirable to further vary it by excluding the Hauraki Gulf and Whangarei Harbour from its operation: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Sea Fisheries Act, 1894, doth hereby make the following regulation by way of further amendment of the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the regulations made thereby.

REGULATION. The close season for the species of mugil known as mullet or kanae in the North Island of New Zealand, which was prescribed by regulations made by Order in Council dated the 29th day of July, 1907, shall not operate or have effect in the waters of the Dominion as defined by the said Act in the Hauraki Gulf and Whangarei Harbour.

J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Gouncil

Regulations prohibiting Netting in Portions of Gatlins Lake and River and Owaka River. LIVE RP 0 Oh, Gover no r . ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1916. Present : His Excellency the Governor in Council. IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Fisheries Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall have effect on and in those portions of the Catlins Lake and River and the Owaka River, in the Provincial District of Otago, as hereinafter prescribed.

REGULATIONS. 1. No person shall use a net for taking fish in the waters of the Catlins Lake and River above a straight line drawn from White’s Point on the northern shore of the Catlins Lake to Glass Point on the southern shore of such lake, the northern end of such line being marked by a post having painted thereon the words “ Netting limit,” as shown on plan marked M.D. 4562 No. 1, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington. 2. No person shall use a net for taking fish in the waters of the Owaka River above a straight line drawn across the river from the dividing-line between Sections 3 and 11, Block VIII, of Glenomaru Survey District, such limit being marked on the eastern shore of the river by a post painted white bearing the words “ Netting limit,” as shown on plan marked M.D. 4562 No. 1, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington. 3. Any person committing a breach of the foregoing regulations is liable to a fine of not less than £1 and not exceeding £2O. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointment of Acting Vice-Consul of Russia at Wellington recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 11th January, 1916. HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognized provisionally the appointment by the Vice-Consul of Russia at Wellington of

G. E. Richardson, Esq., as Acting Vice-Consul of Russia at Wellington during the absence of the Vice-Consul, Mr. Ultan Francis McCabe.

G. W. RUSSELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.