Fishing rights
Sir,—Your editorial of August 29 drew attention to the many awkward questions now facing fisheries inspectors as a result of the recent High Court decision on Maori fishing rights. For example, should they leave out the hard bits and prosecute only the pakehas or should they just stop trying and turn a blind eye to it all? Perhaps the answer lies in the old English custom of using poachers as gamekeepers. Why not employ only Maoris as fisheries inspectors. Surely they would know if a fisherman was a real Maori, which tribe he belonged to, what traditional rights that tribe had, and what areas those rights applied to. Such a solution would solve the ministry’s dilemma. It would also raise the already high, and rapidly rising, level of resentment at the continual intrusion of the Government’s racial policies into our daily lives. — Yours, etc.,
JOHN H. LENCH. Nelson, August 29, 1986.
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