7 APRIL 1950, Page 14

Purer Rivers ? •

The first of the River Boards came into being last month, on the date of what The Field called "that pleasant anachronism, the opening of the salmon season on the Thames." The watch-dogs of our rivers are the fishermen, but pollution has beep so rampant that all riparian dwellers have been shocked. Will these Boards save our rivers? They can, though a more central authority was needed.