ANGLERS CHARGED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 6

ANGLERS CHARGED

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Fishing in Lake Roto-aira INTERESTING PROSECUTION

(By Telegrapb

AUCKLAND, Last Night. A case of' considerable interest toanglers in the Taupo district, involving th,eir right to take trout in Lake ltoto-aira was opened in the Magistrate's Court. . Charges of breaches of trout fishing regulations wer'e brought by the Department of Internal Affairn against six Auckland professional men and two farmers. The defendants wer® Harold Eric Barrowclough, of Auckland, solicitor ; Williani W. Dove, of Auckland, merchant; William Hollis Cocker, of Auckland, solicitor ; John Russell Gray, of Auckland, solicitor;. Ernest Astley Harding, Dargaville, farmef ; Bruce MeLeod Clyton, of Feilding, fariner ; John Reece Morris, of Auckland, headmaster; and Cecil A. Whitney, of Auckland, merchant. Under the Taupo Trout Fishing Regulations, 1929, each of the defendants was charged with two breaches alieged to have' been committed on March 28 last, that being the holder of a license entitling him to fish in any part of tho Taupo district as defined by the regulation, except in Lake Roto-aira, he fished for trout there and that he fished for trout in Lake Roto-aira in breach of the regulations made with respect to the taking of trout in that lake. The regulations forbid Buropeans to fish in the lake, the right being contined tp one Maori tribe. The hearing was adjouraed.