LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Badminton Evening There was a good attP^ the Druids' Hall last those interested in the minton wei'e invited to Part{ matches arranged. To the the game is fairly diffieult l spite this several of those I showed consider able ability remainder made up f0r (V this by their enthusiasm. \ of the interest shown it wouU j that a strong club could be I in Rotorua. i I "The Golden Egg" j In ordinary course of eveni i might not he a fortune in f, these days of low prices but owned by Mr. W. Smith, 0f town, has proved somethi„g exception through, as very 0ft peng, its virtues ivere not dis ' until it was dead (reports th borough Express). The fowl ■ ing prepared for the table ■ shiny -object was noticed in zard and investigation revealei nugget of gold. It is not e that a gold ±ush will set jn shape of the nugget gives j strong suspicion that it once part of a set of teeth. "Old Eeonomic Man." • "One thinks of the old 'e man' as a donkey with a car in front of its nose to keep it said Dr. C. E. Beeby in an to the Canterbury College Co Society (reports the Chris Press). "But," he continued cannot think of the relation workers to industry only in ti that_carrot." The" worker was pat'ed oiily hy the desire money, he said. If he did w money alone, then the questio dustrial relations would be the economist alone to deal w since- that was not the case a matter for the psycholo well. Poachers' Weapons An armoury which would ha credit to the men of ICent who ed under Wat Tyler with their forks and bill-hooks is accun in the store-house of the I Affairs Department as a resul activities of the department': ers against trout poachers. present time, the Conservator 'and Game (Mr. A. ICean) is no less than eight formidable together with other impei used by various poaching which have come under the n his officers. The spears raiig 12ft to 4ft in length with;a array of prongs and distinct ality in design. One of the s but possibly one of the most ive of the weapons is a six ] wire fork, the prongs spre; wise to cover a length of nea feet and with eaeh prong hoi the end. The implement fomis deadly scoop capable of remov largest fish from the water w twist. The majority of the spe converted hay forks but son been reduced to one prong anc increased to four according sporting tastes of their owr addition, there is an ingenious structed poacher's torch mani ed from half a motor tyre coi on the end of a long stick. T ber, when lighted, makes an lent flare. Heavy Carp Taken A new addition to the mu: the office of the Conservator and Game at Rotorua (Mr. A is a four-pound carp which h exeellently mounted by a loc dermist. This specimen is larly heavy for New Zealand where the carp, unlike the n of imported fish, does not i any great size. This particula men was taken hy net at the end of the Ohau channel. It parently been struck by a bo pellor or some other obiect : work of repairing the fins for ing was one of considerable. d In England, records show t carp gi-ows very much larger New Zealand where the weight is under a pound. Record shows that the recc taken by fair angling in Eng till 1924 was 301b. 3oz., a there are records of even lar being taken hy other means. largest on record was a 241b men which was taken from th Pond at Harting near Peters 1858 when the pond was One of the piscatorial myste the secret of the variation in ours of the carp. The orm goldfish is the carp in its mos ative form, but the colours fish also vary from the comm brown, to red, black, tawny i i even pure white. Trout Liheration The three hatcheries opei" the Internal Affairs Departme eries branch in the Rotorua Waikaremoana area are at stocked to capacity and the 1" and stocking activities of t e ment are in full swing. So season, 300,000 fry have ee ated in lakes Rotorua and ° further consignments v1 ; practically every week _ urJ stocking season. Expenenc shown that it is necessary Rotoiti early in the season to avoid the marauding u small fish, although they P* cellent food for the larger act reparation against the ^ which they eat literaily ands. During the winter m cockahully retires to the eeP of the lake but v/ith the c0( the warmer weather towai" s ^ her, they return to the sha the trout fry are to fact that there are very flowing into Rotoiti whic for the liheration of^' £ necessary to liherate m in- suitable bays and ] , hullies are also in , the time of liheration, tney siderable havoc among fish. On the other hand, i it liberated early while t e ^ still in deep water, they ently grown hy September after themselves. The^ ture of the cockahully is 'the fact that two nunutes . liheration of fry, they & attacking the young trout lowing them .whole.