TREES AND TROUT

NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 4

TREES AND TROUT

THERE are really only two matters of vital interest in the life of Charles M. Buckworth — forestry and trout- fishing. The former is both his occupation and his hobby — and the latter, he will tell you with one of his rare smiles, is a besetting sin which originated about sixty years ago, when, as a small boy, he protested bitterly if his father — an English clergyman — went off with his rod without him. There is no man in New Zealand who awaits the first day of the troutfishing season each year with more eagerness than "The Colonel," as he is affectionately termed by those who know him. He scorns rubber -waders, preferring to stand in the stream waters that have their source in the snow-clad heights of old Egmont without this protection. He is still doing it at the age of sixtynine! For some sixteen years Charles Buckworth did valuation work for the State Advances Department, finally entering the State Life Insurance branch of the Government service. He sacked the Government to take on the job of boosting forestry for the Taranaki Permanent Forests Company and has become so wrapped up in afforestation that next to his beloved trout-fishing it is his greatest interest in life.