FOR FUTURE SPORT

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 118, 15 November 1917, Page 8

FOR FUTURE SPORT

STOCKING THE RIVERS WITH FISH. The work of distributing the fry and yearling trout from the Wellington Acclimatisation Society's hatchery at Masterton has now been completed. The numbers of each liberated in the various streams throughout the Wellington province have been as follow: — Brown Fry.—Wairarapa North 80,000, Wairarapa South 60,000, Eketahuna 70.C00, Pahiatua 69,000, Levin 40,500, Taihape 30,000, Palmerston North 40,000, Masterton Ponds 12,000, Waikanae 30,000, Wainui (below Grace's) 20,000, Hutt River 100^000, Akatarawa 70,000, Mungaroa 20,000, Pukuratahi 20,000, Little Wainui and Horikiwi 15,000, Martin River 30,000. Total 706,500. . ' Rainbow Fry.—Marton 35,000, Hunterville 23,000, Turakina 4000, Taihape 20,000, Pahiatua 12,000, Palmerston North 10,000, Mangaweka 10,000 Wainui Reservoir 5000, Waiotouru 5000 Turanganui 5000. Total, 139,000. -,Ji rown Yearll'ngs.—Wairarapa North ™ ' Wajrarapa St>uth 840, Eketahuna 770, Pahiatua 420, Palmereton North 550, Marton 300, Hunterville 250 Taihape 200, Levin 720, Pukuratahi (Summit) 500, Pahautanui 250, Hutt 450 Total 6250.