A LIBEL ON TROUT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 14 May 1912, Page 9

A LIBEL ON TROUT.

« REPLY TO A CRITICAL VISITOR. (By T«lcErajili.—Succial Correspondent.! Auckland, May 11. The president of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society (Mr. W. H. Hazard) had no hesitation in characterising the statement of Major-General Sir Arthur Dorward, regarding New Zealand trout as a "gross exaggeration," when seen this morning by a reporter. "While it is perfectly true that there arc some diseased fish in New Zealand," continued Mr. Hazard, "they are only found in two plaecs, Taitpo anil Rotorna, which are both under the control of the Tourist Department, and tho proportion of fish affec'ted is not a large one. It is quite unfair and in-, correct to sav that the industry is neglected, as the Department is doing all it can to get at the root of tho difficulty. Beyond the fact that the fish are affected with a certain worm, very little is known about the mysterious disease, but the steps that are being taken by the veterinary staff of tho .Agricultural Deparhttcnt should result in denims inforillation being collected, It is surmised that the infection comes from tho shags which are found in fairly large .numbers around the lakes, but notlrins is known for certain. The Tourist Department lias been arranging to secure from the lo Papapa hatchery of the Auckland Socie. v about forty healthy two-.vcar-old fish which will 'be taken to "notorua for experimental purposes. They will be_ kept | under observation from the time of liitection, and a complete study of tho nroeress of the disease will be made, ihe Department had a number of ducks reared' at tire H-nakura Experiment Farm under sterilised conditions as regards food, and these'will also lie used in the exhaustive tests which will be conducted ar Hotorna. This work, of course, \nll cost much time and money, but tho Government rightly appreciate* the great, value of the fishing to New Zealand, and it is not fair of people who have probably spent a few davs or we°ks in the Dominion, to make such sweeping and baseless criticisms," Mr. Hazard mentioned tlmt Tie-was sp-eak'ng the other day fo a keen fisherman from New South who. w r hile admitting that the fish were not ouite so nlenlifu! as lie had expected, said he had not seen a diseased fish the whole time he was out.

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