DEFIANT POACHERS.
SEAPLANE AND TRAWLER. FIRTH OF CLYDE ENCOUNTER, LONDON, iAug. 30. The cruiser Vigilant, assisted by a seaplane, failed to stop defiant and resourceful trawlers which were poaching in the Firt.li of Clyde. A group of eight, trawlers, the names of which had' been obliterated, defied the seaplane’s- orders to heave to and await the- -arrival of the Vigilant. The seaplane descended to the water, but he fishermen, whose blackened faces concealed -their identity, -wielded! long poles, threw lumps of coal and turned on their hoses, thus preventing the seaplane’s crew from .boarding any of their vessels. Next, they threw fireballs, consisting of waste, soaked in oil, thus compelling the seaplane to retreat. Tlie fishermen resented:'- the. arrival of th,e seaplane, considering that this removed the element of sport from their contest with the law. Inasmuch as the Algilant had occasionally failed to eatclr a speedier trawler, the- authorities sent, the. submarine chaser Spey, which is capable of travelling 23 knots, resulting in several.trawelrs being caught and fined from £IOO to. £2OO.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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173DEFIANT POACHERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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