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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9050, 8 February 1908, Page 5

(To the Editor.) Sir,~ln a recent issue of the Wairarapa Age, I read Mr W. D. Ayson's comments on the fishing industry at the mouth of-the Whareama river and the neighbouring coast, and. I fail to see where his experience' comes in during the few months lio was engaged on the coast with an obsolete boat —not suited for thework. To prove that there is a plentiful supply of fish in the locality, I might inform Mr Ayson that Dante Gamononi, a fisherman of forty years experience, and myself went, out to Whareama, and there found an abundance of such fi&h as mullet, flounders, schnapper, herrings and kawhai, and if the weather had been suitable at the time we could have set our nets for butter fish or mold. No doubt the fish is there, and fresh is totally different from the frozen article that the Master tort public get at times. I could get reliable authority to bear out all rny statements. Mr Ayson must be very biassed against the district that gives him his bread and butter, when hs condemns the Whareama as a fishing ground. The crux of the question is to get road access to the mouth of the river, and then we insert the thin edge of the wedge of a broad policy to unlock thi! neighbouring lands. There are plenty of willing hands who only want room to get on the land. The public should thank Messrs Hogg and Hornsby, M.P.'s for the trouble they have taken in this important matter of opening up a fishing industry.—l am, etc., T. H. SMITH.