STROKEHAULING AND THE ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 10

STROKEHAULING AND THE ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

w to wato* «»» *"* pa * sS " Sir —Having been a constant reader M "The PW «<* thc P as * *j. *£?? «<| a constant angler *««**•■£ 1.3 years, I would like to say something about fctrokehauling and acclimatisation »»^ r » generaUy on letter Polished m joar aper on January 10, the «»tor, «<OM-time Kporttnuw," «y. that all Mow-fed rivers are* strokebauled. VWth tbu statement 1 am in complete agreement „ m l wou i(] aa m fat «• to say that there "ft not a trout stream in the tholo of Canterbury that doe* not receive the attention of poachers. * idso agree with hi* remarks, about toigters countenancing P *»J would qualify thin by adding that many of the worst poachers in Canterbury are license holders and consetiuently members of the Society. 1 must differ, however, with your correspondent regarding the remedies Huuteated for the condition mentioned nbove. What reason has he for supposing that the Acclimatisation Society is desirous of refusing licenses to. poachers? A poacher's money is as good as a sportsman's and his vote, by leason of its greater controllability, is hotter. Similarly I disagree with the suggestion that atrokehftiiling and | other poaching would be decreased by prohibiting night ashing. A strokehnulcr is already "prepared to break one regulation, and the slight disadvantage of being under the necessity of breaking a second would be compensated by the clear field which the withdrawal of anglers would give him. The final suggestion that several small southern societies should be abolished and their revenue handed over id large ones, which are claimed to be- tnotn efficient, is, to Lay the least, surprising, to your correspondent so innocent of administrative experience as to be unaware that the larger a body is the easier it is to present a fail* aspect to the public, and hush up anything that does not redound to its credit?' The establishment of th* Oreenpark hatchery will serve to illustrute this point. If a small society such as Ashburtr/n had spent £3OO in driving a well for hatchery purposes in a locality where th« water temperature wa* known to be S7 decrees, R would have boon laughed out of the district. The ; *Ubsequent erection ot an expensive , cooler that could not by any physical ] law be expected to be successful would j have ruined the prestige of Waimftte. < while Oumnru could x never have got away with the bungalow-like structure Which fWeerts our white elephant from the public gafce. The same could be said about the Research Committee, or the reason for

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