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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 3

The Whangarei Acclimatisation Society suffered a severe loss when about 80.000 rainbow trout fingerlings died at the society’s hatchery at Onerahi recently. This hatchery, which is the only one north of Rotorua, is situated in a valley through which runs a spring-fed stream. The curator, Mr P. J. McAlride. fed the fingerlings at 6 o’clock one evening, but when he went next morning to the ponds practically all were dead. The fish had been raised at the hatchery from the ova stage, and in the fry stage had been put in two holding ponds of about 800 gallons each. These ponds are fed by the running stream. The fish were all in excellent condition, and were nearly ready for liberating. Now only about 80 in one pond and 300 in the other are left. The loss to the society amounts to £320, besides delaying the progressive stocking of North Auckland streams.