FINES AND PENALTIES IN ROTARY CLUB RECOGNISES MAGISTRATE'S COURT SERVICES OF MRS J. BOOTH

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 10 June 1965, Page 10

FINES AND PENALTIES IN ROTARY CLUB RECOGNISES

MAGISTRATE'S COURT SERVICES OF MRS J. BOOTH

Fines for breaches of fishing and boating regn- j lationjs imposed by Mr G. j J. Donne, S.M., in the Taupo Magistrate's Court on Monday totalled £135. Costs of £1 10s were ordered on each of the 28 charges. For permitting sawdust to contaminate a stream, J. Stucki, sawmiller, was fined £15 and £10 on two charges. Taupo's chief ranger, Mr I). Main, told the Court that sawdust had been deposited | from the mill operated by Stucki on the bank of Moose Creek, a tributary of the Waipunga River. He had warned Stucki last December and again in' March of the danger of the sawdust contaminating the water. Later he found that water had been used to run sawdust away from the mill which had seeped back into the creek. contaminating it for a mile downstream with a black ooze. The Department of Internal Aftairs took a serious view of the offences, I Mr Main said. Stucki was charged with allowing the sawdust to enter the creek and with de-;

positing it on the bank. In other breaches of fishing regulations, Mr Donne imposed fines, with £1 10s costs, • as follows: — Licence offences: W. J. Haines, £3 10s; J. W. Hinchco, £5; E. R. Jones, £5; D. J. Jenkin, £5; M. Lencse, £5; B .Martin, £5; C. B. Morrison, £5; P. E. Ogier, £5; T. O'Hara, £5; A. J. Richards, £5; S. Smith, £5; G. Stone, £5; E. K. Viles, £5; T. Mr. Webb, £5. Other fishing offences: D. Cochrane, two rods, £5; R. A. Duder, undersize fish, £3 10s; W. Duff, restricted area, £2 10s; G. Kent, after hours, £3 10s; D. K. Pritchard, restricted area, £3; D. Russell, two rods, £4; J. Salle, restricted area, £3; H. A. Smith, illegal lure, £4 10s. Breaches of motor launch regulations: J. E. M. Batten, £3; M. Wilton, £2; T. Partelow, two charges, £4 10s and £3. FOR LIGHTING a fire without a permit in the closed fire season. S. T. Dibble was fined £7 with £1/10/costs by Mr G. J. Donne, S.M. in the Taupo Magistrates Court, on Monday.

Recognition of district services rendered to the community of Taupo was recently given by Taupo Rotary Club to Mrs J. E. Booth, superintendent of Taupo St. John Ambulance nursing division. Mrs Booth claims only a portion of the honour bestowed on her by Rotary and ! said there are many women ! in the division who have worked as long and as hard j as she has. A nursing division has I been giving service to the Taupo area for over 20 ;years. The movement was ! first registered in 1940 and with a strength of 16 women, was known as the TaupoI Reporoa nursing division. I Twelve of the members j lived at Taupo and four in Reporoa. At that time Mrs Albert Reid was superintendent and Dr Armstrong was divisional surgeon. In those days there was no ambulance in Taupo and the service was supplied from Rotorua. Roads were not good and a round trip for the ambulance often took up to five hours. The division had its difficulties too because it had no permanent building

where members could meet. During the war, when petrol was short, members used to meet one week at Reporoa and one at Taupo. At the end of the war, the division went into recess, but late in 1950, following an accident at the Huka Timber Mills, a meeting was called to re-register the movement. Instrumental in organising the meeting were Colonel Swan, Messrs Dean F-ancourt, Arthur Kennedy and J. Woodward. Brigfade activities Hegan in October, 1951, when the first Morris ambulance was dedicated to the work of St. John of Taupo by the Rev. C. G. G. Salt. About the same time, St. John classes began in Rickit's Hall, Tongariro Street. Instead of separate classes for the various sections, everyone met together. The first ambulance drivers were volunteers, who worked on a roster system and were backed by the cooperation of employers in Taupo who willingly permitted their men to take time off to answer calls. The ambulance was housed at Gillies Motors until 1959 when the new hall was dedicated. Once the ambulance hall was built, the sections of St. John were able to congregate under one roof, which w7as more convenient for administrative purposes.