Queenstown’s “Senior Civil Servants”
Queenstown’s famous fish are mentioned in “Brains Trust,” the impressions which Mr Donald McCullough, question master of the BBC, has set on record of his flying tour round the world. Two chapters by this light-hearted and friendly critic are devoted to New Zealand, and he records the fact that, in spite of some northern lake’s charm to fame as a fishing resort, the only fish which he actually saw in New Zealand were at Queenstown. “They were swimming off the end of the pier,” he writes. “Just as I was about to rush off and get a rod, I was informed very crisply that the fish visible from the pier in Queenstown must not be importuned by impertinent anglers. They are the top-class fish, and rank as senior civil servants.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 82, 6 January 1950, Page 5
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134Queenstown’s “Senior Civil Servants” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 82, 6 January 1950, Page 5
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