POLLUTION OF RIVERS
COMPLAINTS FROM WEST COAST. FINES CONSIDERED INSUFFI®IENT. ! (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The .Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, has ■boon receiving representations from Hokitika. complaining that the. fines inflicted on sawmillir.g companies for- letting sawdust run into rivers, are in no -way deterrent and. asking that the Magistrate be instructed t.o.deal adequately with offenders; The : Minister . said yesterday that under the Fisheries Act, it was an -offence for anyone to allow sawdust to run into a river, as it was extremely injurious to ’ trout and salmon, and. also destroyed much of the food on which' they subsisted; He had replied to the representations by emphatically reposing- to interfere in any way whatever with the decisions of the magistrates. “With regard to these offences, the law is sufficient,’ ’ said Mr Wilford, '“and- the administration of that law' is in the hands of those who have been given authority to deal with the breaches of the same.” Whether the fines already inflicted, running from £1 to £5 and costs, are deterrent, was a matter for the Magistrate and not for the Minister.
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Northern Advocate, 23 May 1929, Page 7
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188POLLUTION OF RIVERS Northern Advocate, 23 May 1929, Page 7
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