WILL NOT INTERFERE
MINISTER AND MAGISTRATES Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, has been receiving representations from Hokitika complaining that the fines inflicted on sawmilling companies for letting their sawdust run into the rivers are in no way deterrent. and asking that the magistrates be instructed to deal adequately with the offenders. The Minister said today that, under the Fisheries Act, it was an offence for anyone to allow sawdust to run into rivers. It was extremely injurious to trout and salmon, and also destroyed much of the food on which they subsited. He had replied to the representations by emphatically refusing to interfere in any way whatever with the decisions of magistrates with regard to these offences. “The law is sufficient,” said Air. Wilford, “and the administration of that law is in the hands of those who have been given the authority to deal with breaches of the same. Whether the fines already inflicted, running from £ 1 to £5 and costs, are a deterrent, is a question for the magistrate and not for the Minister.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 12
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183WILL NOT INTERFERE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 12
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