When asked if he knew the’ reason for the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society’s deep interest in asking the rivers board to plant its river banks with alders, Mr G. Rochfort, the board’s engineer, offered the following explanation at the board’s monthly meeting recently. “I suppose they prefer alders,’’ he said, “because the roots of the Willow grow into the river and fishermen’s lines and hooks get entangled in them.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1938, Page 9
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