CYANIDE BLAMED
(N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, -November 9. Cyanide poisoning is the suspected cause of the deaths of hundreds of fish in the Waitangi Stream, a few miles from Tangiwai, in the southern King Country. The Marine Department has taken water samples, the Waimarino Acclimatisation Society has been told. The deaths were discovered when the Marine Department, at the request of the society, arrived to take about SOO fish out of the overstocked stream to transfer them to other streams. But the Marine Department team found much fewer fish in the stream than expected The team told the society’s secretary that reports had been heard in Wellington that cyanide had been introduced into the stream. So far, no explanation of how cyanide could have got into the water has been found.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 2
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132CYANIDE BLAMED Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 2
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