At a social meeting of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society reference was made to the fact that a plague of tadpoles had been experienced, seriously affecting the operations of tne society (reports the "Star”). The chairman said that in the finest sheets of water the society had ever handled, the results lately had been very unfortunate. It was difficult to say what went wrong. Good results should have been yielded by both dams as they had had a spell. In one there ■had been an unusually large number of tadpoles, which might have had something to do with the failure. The last fry that were liberated were splendid. There were 25,000 of them. Three months after liberation there were no trout, but instead four full nets of tadpoles. From 70,000 to 100,000 were taken from the dam. These had probably starved the trout out. There were only about SO fish left altogether.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5130, 25 May 1927, Page 3
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151Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5130, 25 May 1927, Page 3
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