Fishing Season.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 4

Fishing Season.

The angling season, which opened inauspiciously on October 1, has improved consideraby since then and anglers have been taking more fish. The secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, Mr E. J. C. Wiffin, in. an interview, said that the Maungaroa and Hutt Rivers had been fishing well and the Wainui-o-mata very fairly. On the Manawatu River in the vicinity of Palmerston North the fishing had been good, and some big fish had been taken. Boy Electrocuted. Coming into contact with an electric power line on the top of a shed near his home in Otahuhu, a boy, Roy Arthur Taylor, aged 6, was electrocuted. The fatality occurred only a short distance from his parents’ residence. The boy was playing with his brother, aged nine, in a small paddock almost opposite their home. A ball lodged on the flat roof of a shed at the rear of a taxi service garage. The young boy clambered to the roof by way of a stack of timber and a short time afterward the other boy noticed him lying stretched out on the corrugated iron roof. The attention of a passer-by was called and he climbed to the roof and found the lad lying dead with one of his hands within a few inches of a live wire which was connected to the garage.