SPORT IN NEW ZEALAND.
ITS VALUE AS A MAGNET FOR TOURISTS. Special to Times. . . .WELLINGTON, August 2. In this year s report of the Tourist Department Mr. Donne says the vali ; or trout and deer acclimatisation i this country is difficult to estimate tart from encouraging a healtliv ncans of amusement and recreation io: our own people, the sport now oliering IS the means of inducing a very largo number of oversea visitors tj spond weeks and often months, annually in this country, and it plays no unimportant part in the inducements held out to the moneyed to make their homes in tf.Z During the past year trout fishing has even been better than in forme? seasons. from some lakes and streams enormous catches have been made of fish of great size, notably i„ Lake Tarawora, and the rivers iunnmg into Lake Taupo, near Toku-;l-1 j•, . 1* rom the latter place fish weighing from 101 b to 231 b were frequcntlj taken. Among the trophies secured by door stalkers there were some very excellent heads. Sport on tlia w hole has keen good.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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183SPORT IN NEW ZEALAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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