LAKE ROTOAIRA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 14

LAKE ROTOAIRA

RIGHT TO TAKE TROUT ANGLERS PROSECUTED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A case of considerable interest to anglers in the Taupo district, involving their right to take trout in Lake Rotoaria, was opened to-day in the Magistrate’s Court. Charges of breaches of trout fishing regulations were brought by the Department of Internal Affairs against six Auckland professional men and two farmers. The defendants were Harold Eric Barrowclough, of Auckland, solicitor; William W. Dove, of Auckland, merchant; William Hollis Cocker, of Auckland, solicitor; John Russell Gray, of Auckland, solicitor; Ernest Astley Harding, Dargaville, farmer; Bruce McLeod Clyton, of Feilding, farmer; John Reece Morris, of Auckland, headmaster;'and'Cecil A. Whitney, of Auckland, iperchnnt.

Under the Taupo trout fishing regulations, 1929, each of the' defendants was charged with two breaches alleged to have been committed on March 28 last, that being the holder of a license entitling him to fish in any part of the Taupo district as defined by the regulations, except in Lake Rotoaira, he fished for trout there and that he fished for trout in Lake Rotoaira in breach of the regulations made with respect to the taking of trout in that lake. The regulations forbid Europeans to fish in the lake, . the right being confined to one Maori tribe. The hearing was adjourned.