FINED FOR TAKING TROUT.
TWO CASES AT CHRISTCHURCH. [United Press Association.] CRHISTCHURCH, Tuesday. At Kaiapoi yesterday, G. H. Martin was fined £5 and costs "for dynamiting a water hole in the Waimakariri river and taking trout. The defence was that ha was making experiments with no idea at all about taking trout. He gave notice of appeal. William Paterman, a fisherman, was fined £2 for taking trout. He had baited a hook for eels and caught a trout, which he did not, return to the river. A second charge of being illegally in possession of trout during the close season was withdrawn.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 October 1907, Page 2
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102FINED FOR TAKING TROUT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 October 1907, Page 2
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