AN APPALLING WASTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 14, 15 January 1913, Page 8

AN APPALLING WASTE.

GORGED AND GLUTTED WITH TROUT. During the holidays, says the Auch ■ land correspondent of the ‘Wanganu* Chronicle,’ Taupo has beep the Mecca of many sportsmen and sightseers, who have come away with two strong opinions—that the proposed railway to Taupo is altogether needed in order to facilitate access to this wonderful lake, and that the astounding waste of the best food in the Dominion is a disgrace to this or any othe>- Government which permits it and insists upm it. Taupo trout is in rh> pink of condition. Lake and streams swarm with magnificent fish. Sportsmen cannot keep fish down, and there is consequently a danger of them deterioration, as in Rotorua, yet the Government takes no steps to provide the public of Auckland and the Dominion with the best of food from this teeming supply. The other day a fisherman caught twelve splendid trout and gave six to some Maoris. Some time afterwards he saw the fish flung away and spoiling in the sun. At Taupo the Maoris and their pigs are gorged and glutted with trout until they car eat no more. Trout is being used as a fertiliser. Trout is being openly and monstrously wasted, yet must not he sold in fish-hungry cities, and the Government makes no attempt to establish a commercial State fishery.