TRESPASS ON FARMLANDS
Tightening Of Law Urged “The Press’* Special Service DUNEDIN, July 22. Tightening-up of the law of trespass on farmlands is urged by a remit to be debated at the annual conference of the National Party, which opens in Dunedin on Saturday. In their supporting submissions, the sponsoring electorates, Marlborough and Bay of Plenty, say that the Crown can prosecute and get a conviction against a person for trespassing on Crown land. Where the trespasser is on private land without permission, however, “police and lawyers are reluctant to take a prosecution for trespass to the court, even where the offender has refused to leave when requested by the landowner.” Even where a trespasser does damage, the remit claims, he is usually charged with wilful damage, not trespass. “The courts appear most reluctant to convict on the charge of trespass,” says the remit.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30810, 23 July 1965, Page 15
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