Fisheries Conservation Act.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib,— As a rule Ido not call in question any remark that may fall from a presiding Justice, but I do think that the remarks made by a presiding Magistrate at Bangiora, that trout taken without a license was swindling, comes with a very bad grace, Beeing that that gentleman, if not a member of the Acclimatisation Society — which I believe he is— is a noted angler. It is well known that most of the Society of Anglers are utterly opposed to the public generally having trout. Some men of standing here are utterly opposed to the present method of dealing with our trout. 'The fish are the property of the people and why not let them alone until they inorease enough to become a common article of diet and could be got by a poor man, who has not a pound to pay and who has not the time to waste in dangling a rod and punishing the creature with a hook in its body, perhaps for hours together, before it is drawn out of the water, a practice that should be treated as cruelty to animals and put down by the strong arm of the law. The greatest cruelty is to sport with pain, and how a refined person can so indulge is to my mind a problem.— l am, &c, G.S.H.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7068, 21 January 1891, Page 4
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230Fisheries Conservation Act. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7068, 21 January 1891, Page 4
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