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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20344, 17 September 1931, Page 13

Officers of ttio Department of Internal Affairs aro already stocking the Waimana, Wliakatann, Eangitaiki, anil Tarawera rivers with fry, and good bags aro expected during the coming trout-fishing season, which opens on November Ist and lasts for six months. Last season trout-flsliing in the four rivers was better than it has been for inaiiy years, and fine Specimens of rainbow trout tip to 101b and 121b were taken. Prospects for tho coming season are considered particularly bright, A tribute to Mr Elsdon Best was paid at the meeting of the Otago Institute on Tuesday night by Mr H. I) Skinner, who said that by the death of Mr Best New Zealand had lost one of the be t-known of its scientific workers, .and one who stood in the front rank of native-born scientists. A widely-travelled man. who had spent a largo part of his life among the Maoris.. Mi- liest had become so interested in their social organisation and had conducted su"h thorough researches* into their ethnological characteristics that he would remain the only authority 011 the M-ion race hcfoi'e the inteii'ivp commingling ©f tho native people with Europeans. The speaker said hfl had been told by Sir Anirana Ngatn that Mr Best could sneak the Maori language more purely and with more linguistic ease than any living (Maori.