5/- For Fishing

Vith Weed-Killer

fixed in with the usual beer wing fines in a December ie of the “Cook Islands News”, ? a new crime for that part the world: two Cl Maoris e each fined 5/- for “unlawful of Lindane, a stupifying nt, in the taking of fish from water at Muri”. indane is a proprietory mix -3 used by the government in ■otonga to kill weeds but it equally as efficient as a fish er. A resident of Rarotonga, ting about the incident said: personally saw thousands of ill fish, ranging down to i. fry, dying or dead on the res of the lagoon. A number people unaware of how the had been obtained, ate ntities of them and spent the of the day vomiting. For trivial offence, the scamps luestion were fined 5/-. That be a stern warning to them” i comparison with what the r brewers and drinkers pro- ? —from £5 to £2O per time— ■ does seem a paltry contn lon to consolidated revenue, ticularly when a £5 fine is vided for in the regulations t date dack to 1931. Lindane , of course, not known then, various stupefying agents :h as derris root, used in iy Pacific Islands) or any n of poisoning, was strictly L.