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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16853, 5 June 1920, Page 10

I "Shooting" fish is not a, new thine, i but a deh:i.';rd forin of "sport" prevalent. according to a member of the Wellington -Acclimatisation Society, at the annual meeting on Monday evening', in the upper reaches of the Hutfc river at the present time. It had bwn ! reported to him hy the Public Works rnneer that men had l>een seen carry - ir>g off hundreds of pounds of trout : "caught" in this way. jt was de-idod to ash the ranger to act on behalf of t.he'>?oc : ety in an honorary capacity, jMr C. Whatman.renorted that the depredations of poachers had also done I great damacre to the fishing in the Waij r«rapa. Shooting. dynamiting, tir-k- ---| ling, "jasginjr,'' were all practiced. To i supply the rivers with fish was liardly ■worth while in the presence of such "sports." It was a tiling that youths were growing up with such a peer idea of sport. In one c2so he knew of twenty-four fish being dynamited in one hole. In addition to the hrman pest, shags were plentiful. and pels hpd increased enermon«]y thrcmrh the dying out of the Maoris \rho lived along the banks.