SAWDUST IN RIVERS.
DEALING WITH OFFENDERS. NO INTERFERENCE BY MINISTER. [BY telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Minister of Justice, Hon. T. 11. Wilford, lias received representations from Hokitika complaining that fines inflicted on sawmilling companies for letting sawdust run into rivers were in no way a deterrent and asking that the magistrate ho instructed to deal adequately with offenders. , The Minister said to-day that under the Fisheries Act it was an offence for anyone to allow sawdust to run into rivers as it was extremely injurious to trout and salmon, and also destroyed much of the food on which they subsisted. Ho had replied to the representations by emphatically refusing to interfere in anyway whatever with decisions of magistrates with regard to these offences. " The law is sufficient," said Mr. Wilford, " and tho administration of that law is in tho hands of those who have been given authority to deal with breaches of it. Whether fines already inflicted,'• running from £1 to £5 and costs, are. a deterrent is a matter for the magistrate and not for the Minister."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20262, 23 May 1929, Page 14
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