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“ inquirer,” Waitahuna. Damaged aluminium or enamelware may be repaired at the T.W.T. Engineering Works in St. Andrew street. • " Curious,” Otokia.—(l) The use of bird lime is prohibited. (2) Whitebait is the immature smelt (retropinna) and minnow (galaxias attenuatus) species of fish which are familiar in adult form in most rivers and streams in New Zealand. Both varieties spawn above high-water mark at the top of the spring tides, and on the next spring tide the fry go to sea They return as whitebait when six months old and grow to adult size in fresh water.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 4
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98Answers to Correspondents Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 4
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