ACCLIMATISATION.
ARRIVAL OF TROUT FRY. LESSON'ON LIBERATION FOR BOYS The secretary of the Ohinemuri Acclimatisation Society, Mr D. Leach, has been notified that 30,000 rainbow trout fry will, reach Paeroa this afternoon and a further 20,000 will arrive on Friday. The first lot will be'liberated in the Waitawheta. They will be carted from the Owharoa station to the top of the falls, loaded on a truck, and taken up the tramline to the river. The usual practice is to submerge the cans for the night and liberate the fish the following morning. The trout are transferred from the large cans into portable buckets. These arc carried along the banks of the river and the fry .transferred to the water by means of muslin nets over as long a stretch as possible. Of the 20,000' to arrive on Friday 3000 will be liberated in Tarariki Creek. Mr Leach recommended at the lest meeting of the society that the schoolboys be invited to assist in the liberation, and he invites the older boys of the school to be present at the creek at 3 P,m. on Friday next, when the proper methods will be explained.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4743, 27 August 1924, Page 2
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193ACCLIMATISATION. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4743, 27 August 1924, Page 2
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