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Returned Soldiers.
*— ~ AUCKLAND, May 6th. A contingent of sick and wounded soldiers numbering 368 of all ranks, with ten nuryes arrived hero to day Included in the number tare 21 eot cases, and several severely wounded men.
A formal welcome was extended to the returned soldiers this afternoon, speeches being given by His Excellency the Governor and the Mayor of Auckland. Quinnat Salmon. WELLINGTON, May 3. “The acclimatisation of the quinnat salmon in New Zealand waters is now thoroughly .accomplished,” >said the Hon. G. W. Russell to-day. “The fish have been coming up various rivers in the South Island in considerable numbers ; in fact, they have been so numerous in one district that the Acclimatisation Society made application for tne right to. issue licenses to take quinnat salmon. Ths request had to be iofused. It has now been decided that in the coming season the Hokitika and the Wairau rivers are to be stocked, and a hatchery is to he established at Pembroke, from which point the Molyneux river will he stocked. I have given instructions thajt quina'nt ova he distributed widely in order that the fish may be obtainable at as many points as possiblo round our coasts. “The Chief Inspector of Fisheries lias supplied a report whitcF contains a good deal of. interesting' information. He says that from information given by anglers, some of whom have fished the Waitaki and the Eangitata rivers all the season, it would seem 'that about 400 salmon have been taken from the Waitaki and about 200 from the Eangitata. The largest fish taken was 29£lb, and the average is stated to be about 161 - According to these figures about three tons of salmon were taken from the Waitaki river and about/a ton and a half from the Eangitata between January 21sfc and March 31st. Mr Ayson recommends that next season angling for salmon in certain rivers should be legalised, and that rivers in which the fish have been taken in falir numbers should be declared salmon rivers, and that special licenses should be 'issued for tlife taking of salmon, in. those rivers.” ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1917, Page 4
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