A WATER Conservation Order on the Oreti River comes into effect on September 1. The order recognises the nationally outstanding brown trout fishery, black-billed gull populations and values for tikanga Maori.

By MORGAN, Jared TUI BREWERY'S bevy of beauties should stay out of the Mangatainoka River, a water quality forum in Invercargill was told yesterday.

By MORGAN, Jared E-COLI levels in Southland rivers are expected to rise on the back of flushing caused by rain. E-coli is an indicator of faecal contamination with levels above 250 considered unsafe.

By MORGAN, Jared AN E-COLI alert has prompted Environment Southland to tell people to stay out the water in three Southland rivers.

I WAS disappointed to read the ill-informed comments of Cr Derek Angus in a letter to your paper (December 13), in which he claimed Fish and Game had wasted money in seeking a conservation order for the Oreti River.