TAUPO FISHING LICENSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1926, Page 15

TAUPO FISHING LICENSES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I read in the same of your paper that the Auckland Acclimatisation Society and the Hawku's Bay Acclimatisation Society both claim to have stocked Lake Tanpo with tho fish. Not one penny came out of the pockets of any member of an Acclimatisation Society other than what they have paid for fishing privileges, that all fishermen had to do. Credit may be due to the Auckland Society for their attempt to abolish trolling, which, if the resolutions that they carried at Ngaruawahia re trolling were put into force, would automatically abolish trolling on Lake Taupo. Why is there not one word of protest coming from the manufacturers and importers or fishing rods, reels, and all other troutfishing gear; they must know that their best customers are the daily and weekly license-holders, who are 75 per cent of the people who visit Taupo. Oversea visitors who make lengthy stays bring their own fishing tackle, which they escape, paying the 50 per cent duty that all New Zealand users of fishing tackle have to pay. Their further attempt to abolish night fishing lis too ridiculous to waste the columns of your paper criticising it. —I am, etc., BREWINCMIOSTILITY.