TONGARIRO ANGLING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 6

TONGARIRO ANGLING

SUGGESTED PROHIBITiON CF FISHING FROM BOATS OVERSEAS ANGLERS PROTEST In May last, the Upner Waikato and Tongariro Anglers' Club published in the New Zealand Fishing and Shooting Gazette, various remits carried at one of its meetings. One of these recommended the prohibition of angding from boats in the Tongariro River "unless the boat be tied to the shore." This resolution has aroused some protest among overseas anglers and in the current issue of the New Zealand Fishing and Shooting Gazette two letters appear expressing the hope that the Internal Affairs Department will not agree to the recommendation. The writers, Messrs. Lewis Smith and W. Yatman, both wellknown anglers who have been visiting New Zealand for a number of years, point out that the adoption of this recommendation would debar anglers wbo are unable to wade, from fishing the river and would also prevent the lower part of the river from being fished when the water is at normal height. When the matter was referred to the Conservator of Fisb and Game (Mr. A. Kean) be pointed out that the recommendatioris from the club were only recommendations and were not in any sense regulations which could be enforced. The department's regulations for the Taupo area wwe already gazetted and published and contained no regulation on the lines suggested. Ile wished to make this plain in order that misapprehension should not be created in the minds of overseas anglers.