FISHING WITHOUT A LICENSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4630, 26 January 1894, Page 2

FISHING WITHOUT A LICENSE.

Defendant! Fined, i The case in which two youag lien r wire charged by the Wellington Ac--1 oilmiliiatibn B'ooiety with fisMn'Aj : trout without i license/on the [ hiwi" property, .particulars ."of' t which b»7« aWady keen .'reported 'in ; our 'qoluraris. w$ before : thi| I GflMtWtnornirig. ' " : ' "'' i Mr |eard cori|endid {hire I pould be no ownership, in a' punning stream, as the people beloir and above the property through whiob (he stream pasted had an equal light: Mr Holmes had no more right to dam ip the . water or to fi»h illegally than any Other pflil, of. ta flontrolordeal ] With the water of the (tream in the. w»T}iefoujdhiß|aud t f^rewaii, Ver) great" difjertoge hittfejjn' tM right of ownerahip'end'tbe right*! use of properly. " i| wai not nepeesery to show exolußiva P?P'rphip, and Mr Holmei ha§ a right to the ust of tho water wM|e' jt 'ifts . upon hie land; and' alio a right'to fjih!; jn any wafers, passing through hii i land. •. ■ ■■.' ■ ° .•:•.. j.'Henry Holmes, of Matahiwi, gave evidence that he had given a general peiiniiiion Iq all men working 'oh hit J Jroßerty to fish/if they'had'alipenie. It "had not; been .spioia]ly notified;, that men w'erenpt to fiah without a'-. ioense, but it hbb annnderttogd', thing, He Should certamly never. permit persons to fish who were not lioenßed even if he had'the right to, ; give permission. The'queßt'ionaJ to::' whether the young men oharged.with fißhing illegally;; on- December 20th % had • lioenßea ;or not had never beeofi raised,; Hid he known they had no lioenseß he: should not have allowed £ them; to fish. -He always took outaK licenie;bimß»lfi:'?: .£. :M>Ks#«&

- ing th« witUooo of Mr Holmes, his pterions judgment would stand pood, :. »nd- defendant! would be fined 12 :; and costß. Hia * w«» »leo of opinion ; thftt the owner of a property through which & itmm pigsedwas at liberty tofish on his own property.