THE SAWDUST MENACE
l-lOKiTIKA REPRESENTATIONS [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 22. The Minister of Justice (Mr Wilforcl) has been receiving representations I'rom Hokitika complaining that the lines inflicted on the sawmilling companies lor letting sawdust run into the river, are in no way a deterrent and asked that a magistrate be instructed to deal adequately with flic offenders. r J he Minister said to-day that under the Fisheries Act it wa# an offence for any one to all w sawdust to run into rivers and was extremely injurious to trout and salmon, and a.'so destroyed much of the f<> <1 on which they subsisted. He had replied to the representations by emphatically refusing to interfere in any way whatever with the decisions of the magistrates. With regard to these offences the law is sufficient, said Mr Wilford, and the administration of that law is in the hands of those who have been given authority to deal with breaches of same. Whether the lines already inflicted running' from JJ2 to £5 and costs, are a deterrent, was a matter for a magistrate, and not for the Minister.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1929, Page 5
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188THE SAWDUST MENACE Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1929, Page 5
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