Roderick Ventry LEWIS
aka Ventry
( late of Warregah Island on the Clarence River )
New South Wales Police Force
Academy Class 129 of 1971
Regd. # 15063 – can’t find in 1979 Stud Book. May have left ” the job ” prior to 1979
Rank: ?
Stations: ?, Manly & Mona Vale ( 14 Division ) on GD’s & STP / HWP.
Service: From 13 December 1971 to ?
Awards: ? – nil National
Born: ?
Died on: Friday 1 January 2016 at MacLean Hospital
Cause: Cancer
Age: 61 – 62
Funeral date: Saturday 9 January 2016
Funeral location: ?TBA
Buried at: ?
Memorial at: ?
Ventry LEWIS with Tony WRIGHT at Huntingwood HWP reunion
Funeral location: ?TBA
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Ventry is survived by his wife Donna and two daughters Julia and Loretta.
May you forever Rest In Peace.
At the time of his death, Ventry was a cane farmer living on Warregah Island on the Clarence River near Maclean in Northern NSW.
Articles found involving Ventry:
Companies fined $92k for pollution
THE pollution of Ashby’s Sandy Creek with 690,000 litres of waste water from the Harwood Sugar Mill in 2009 has proven costly for three companies operating in the Lower Clarence as fines of more than $92,000 were handed down at the Maclean Court House on Tuesday.
Magistrate David Heilpern imposed the fines on the NSW Sugar Milling Co-operative, Lewis Brothers (Chatsworth) Pty Ltd and BD and MC Lewis Pty Ltd after they pleaded guilty to charges including polluting waters and transporting waste to an unlawful facility.
Between November 27 and December 8, Lewis Brothers transported the waste water – which contained dirt, sugarcane fibre and sugarcane juice – to Wilcocks Quarry on Tullymorgan Rd at Ashby.
As instructed by Stephen King from Harwood mill, the water was spread over a grassed area at the quarry.
From there the water ran into Sandy Creek and deoxygenated the water – confirmed in readings taken by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
An affidavit from Ventry Lewis of Lewis Brothers stated he spoke with Mr King, who said he had spoken with the EPA about renewing a licence for disposal and he felt because the water was non-toxic a licence wasn’t needed.
In his written judgment, Mr Heilpern stated: “It was incumbent upon all corporate citizens to keep up to date with modern pollution prevention regulations.”
The NSW Sugar Milling Co-operative has two prior convictions for similar offences.
In 1991 the co-operative was fined $60,000 for two breaches of the Clean Waters Act, and in 1995 the mill was fined $37,500 for a similar offence at its Condong mill.
