Encouraging reports of the reappearance of trout in the lower reaches of the Waikato River were made at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society at Waiuku. Mr W. E. Nicholson said that, after silting which occurred when the Waikato River was turned over the headrace at Arapuni on to the pumice flats below, trout had practically disappeared from it below Arapuni. This was attributed to the fine silt being carried down in suspension in the water killing the trout. Now that the river had settled to its new course from the pumice flats, and the water was practically free of silt, trout had again been observed as far downstream as the Tuakau bridge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 9
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