Stocking Streams With Trout

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 13

Stocking Streams With Trout

Sir, —in reply to “Fur and Feather,” I don’t know why we should have to put up with so much interference from the Government. I don’t think it was asked for and certainly not wanted by the bulk, of sportsmen who were getting along quite well without it.

Thanks to its “assistance” the Feilding Society practically ceases to exist, though it was making good and giving every satisfaction to the bulk of licence-holders in its district and gathering the nice balance of £420 odd at. the same time, now it is under the domination of Palmerston North which again is governed by Wellington and by the time these two have had their say the third is left with the crumbs. The lingerlin distribution is a case in point. Wellington says the Oroua is to have 1000 rainbow species liberated. Palmerston, being on the spot, knows that rainbow don’t thrive in the Oroua, so puts them in the Pohangina as well as 1000 brown that were intended for the Katerawa and adjacent stream,. which the local committee (Palmerston North) deemed to be sufficiently stocked. Tliis is the point : Why couldn’t tlie Oroua River, that is starving for fish and the chief source of sport for the Feilding licenceholders. have had the 1000 brown which do well here? Now that nice little balance has been handed over, Feilding will lie like the Czechs —“Hilterized” through listening to the blandishments of others.—l am, etc..