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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 3

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rare indebted to tKeffsmou^CAci natisation Societies ijugliout the colony: for, igaiiy. >p£ the isiires and advantages * >fiiicii :we hepjoj. jiithouglt the'poliej it iraotiou m inti-odueihg eei'taiu'k-itfds yrds, whose mischievous .prpclivuieis ietit experience fitii^%iVo <: "p'iove^vive' riio ■ means : compensated by ' the" eflts derived from their^ pre|euce,' £be called m question, yet; m their <*ayor«i to stock oitr rivers * with non and trout, these societies arts" -ajnly^ntiiled to th&^tha^s ;^f tMj miunity. There &'■ scatfeely?a sti-eahl any -note m JNTe <r iZSalaiid biifc #hatr been thus utilisifed i for ;i piseicultu : re/ s within a very lew years; not f afi'drd i us exhilarating an 4 heallliy; ct, but; will also %Ive'Us^t'iie inea%» uriitshin^j oar tables with^ delicious : iiutntioua article of .diet the value jrhich -is strongly* utlcsfed' by the v o,bal profesxiou. But when we say i .there is scarcely k streain,^of any j m New Zealand thatr'has'noV been ;ked," we are sorry t#be conipelled' add that the itangitikei forms ; a ible and uuaeco.autftble. exception. s- must be attribu ted ; t;o the a pa'tliy' ihe leading men of Eaugiti^i; nawatu. They caniipif jileiid- tfiat tt ; an brersi^lit, for years ago, elijeV >re, {the /writer on. several occasions' s? attention to the subject, and urged V steps- should be^ t^feh" -to iethedy defect. But.the^pa%ya^p!ir : eritly too deeply settled to be shakeu off jt once. : j?rirate enterprise m siport ? niatters iii another diroptitfii lias, ncy bt, had a ben&&6i&t-^bsvWijbhei^&. settlers tq a souse of the advantaged cv' they; w^efe, allowing;^^ '-year ii|ber r, to slip by thein, :^n^ we^are^glad" find that the initiative Aas ; at last a taken, and that there is.every proility of the Kaiigilikei not much ;er remaining barren o|.tUeJse;/ flunyr iries. We notice that a meeting been held at Bulls i^-ifcli,tliis object \ ■jew, and that the^inftiatoPy's^^ c already been taken all that; »ow lvqiiired m orde*r Vo^ake tlie nipt is ch o f urnidhidgV? t^e to meet expense]s,jtihjj 3.^canvass, le two counties, of wh'ich^tha river is the di riding lirie,,. for;^ ways, and us, is at ouce to W iiistiiute^;" We f that > the settlers oi^anawatu,, especially those who have families ring tip, wiU not: bie- b^ckvrai'd ib matter. The Rangitikei Itiyer is irably adapted $or- the- prbpagatißn ' oth salmon and trout, and it vv^ould 1 pity ; if, through ill-timed 'paPsiy, oar iettlers fail to secure to their iren and fcneir descendants the en-.. ncnt and advantages 'tp'be itlniyad 1 having a WfiU-stocked stfeam Lin easy reach. Indeed, it i« matter regret that thd stacking; of, tha r was not taken m hand years ago>" noticed the other, day. that, a trou.t ateen pounds m weight tad.' beiari ired m Otago. Jo he able to place 1 priaes as theae-=te reward' a; ;uirig, but, at the^ same time, he^lthy^; invigorating eiercise^within ithe: h : of their children, is kartif ttle troabie. and ifchb exjieiiditu're ~: : o£, ir paltry shilliogi, on the : 6f the lers of ManawatuV;'!»nd, :wa .tcugfe c will be no hanging back m the fcec— no mean and beggarly shelterof themselves ua4or the plcen of ad .times."-"