RIVER POACHING
REPORTED ON SERIOUS SCALE. MAN FINED IN TARANAKI. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. “We hear reports in every part of the district of men going out with spears and poaching 15 to 20 trout at a time, but we can’t catch them with the goods,” Mr A. Keakins, honorary ranger to the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, tola the New Plymouth Court this morning, in stressing the difficulty of catching poachers. A young man, James Standing, was charged with killing brown trout with a gaff and with taking trout without a licence. He was convicted and fined £4, with 18s costs, on the first count, and convicted, and discharged on the second.
It was emphasised both by the Se-nior-Sergeant and Mr Feakins that poaching was very widespread at the present time, with the water in the rivers so low, and that it was a serious matter to the acclimatisation societies, which were spending a great deal of money to keep the rivers well stocked with fish for anglers, who paid their licence fees.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 6
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175RIVER POACHING Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 6
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