AN IMPORTANT DECISION
(PER PRRfiS ASSOCIATION.)
Masteeton. Dec 5.
At the Magistrates Court this morning Mr James S.M., gave his judgement in a case in which Hugh and John Campbell were charged with fishing for trout without a license. Defendents admitted the charge, but contended they had a right to fish without a license in a river on their property, or the property owner of which gave them permission. James stated it was absurd to seek to establish a claim that riparian proprietors have a right to take and grant others the privilege of taking non-idigenous with which the Government or Acclimatisation Society has stocked his river in the public interest and with whose introduction or propagation he has absolutely nothing to do. He fined each defendant JE4 lOi, making the penalty a substantial one in order to give them an opportunity of appoaling if they desired.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 December 1901, Page 3
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147AN IMPORTANT DECISION Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 December 1901, Page 3
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