FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5

FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND.

LETTER OF APPRECIATION

By Telegraph —Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 20. Capt. Lyon, A.D. C. to the Governor, has given a donation of £5 to the funds of the / Wellington Acclimatisation Society., and addressed the following note to Mr L. 0. H. Tripp, Chairman of the Society:—"On leaving New Zealand I should like to send you a small donation for the Wellington Accimatisation Society as a' slight return for the really fine sport which I have had on various rivers during the last year and a-half. I am certain that the average visitor to New Zealand and also the local fisherman sometimes is only too willing to- take his sport for granted, and considers he has a right to complain if he does not make large baskets upon paying for his £1 fishing license. This seems all the more extraordinary when one remembers the large' sums which people in England are willing to pay for the right of fishing for a mile on one river only. I know that £75 is paid on the Kennet in Hampshire for one rod only. If people realised out here that they owe all their sport to societies such as yours, I feel sure that acclimatisation societies would never be short of funds, I ha ve appreciated the privileges of fishing anywhere I pleased for practically nothing, and I shall look forward tc some day returning and trying my luck again."