SAWMILLING OFFENCE
RAID ON STATE FOREST SUBSTANTIAL PENALTIES IMPOSED (Peh United Press Association) GREYMOUTH, May 15. A fine of £lO with an additional penalty of £356 15s Bd, double the amount of the royalty due, was imposed by Mr Raymond Femer, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day on United Sawmills, Ltd., who were charged with cutting and removing without authority 198,550 feet of timber from the provisional State forest at Kopara. Anthony Farrelly, the manager, was fined £2 10s for aiding and abetting the company. Appearing for the company, Mr F. A. Kitchingham said that the trespass had been committed without the knowledge of the directors. For the Crown, Mr A. A. Wilson declared that the trespass was deliberate. The company had' previously offended, but the department had not prosecuted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23809, 16 May 1939, Page 15
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