Salmon anglers’ stand on fees

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33155, 20 February 1973, Page 15

Salmon anglers’ stand on fees

The New Zealand Salmon Anglers’ Association will oppose any attempt by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society to increase the cost of fishing licences.

The president (Mr J. D. Hughey) said that the society would have to justify the increase publicly before his association would withdraw opposition to it.

The society has announced that it will recommend to the council of South Island Acclimatisation Societies that the fishing licence fee for adults be increased from $6 to $lO, and proportionately for juniors and women. Mr Hughey said his association wanted answers to three questions about the proposed increase. It wanted to know why the increase was required. It wanted to know what proportion of salmon anglers’ licence fees had been spent by the society on the sea-run salmon fishery during the last year. It also wanted to know how much of the 66 per cent increase in the licence fee would be directly spent on sea-run salmon fishery in future.

“When these questions have been fully answered, this association will consider whether it supports or continues to oppose the proposed increase,” said Mr Hughey.

Licence fees are controlled by the Government.

Mr H. J. King, divisional director (rural) of the State Advances Corporation since 1971, has been appointed deputy general manager, succeeding Mr T. G. Hunter, who has retired. Mr King joined the Public Service as a rural field cadet in the Department of Internal Affairs in 1944, and transferred to the State Advances Corporation in 1948. He has served as a farm appraiser at Greymouth, and as supervising appraiser in Christchurch.