ROTORUA TROUT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

ROTORUA TROUT.

_ Sjf.TAt a council of the.Rotbrua Rod and Gun Glub, Mr. 7. M; Wilford's reported misleading'(remark?. /anent the Eotorua trout fishing-were unanimously considered to bo so unfounded that did not that gentla;man possess a,-public position as member of, Parliament of the. Dominion of New Zea-' land no "further, . action "would"', have been /taken'by my council. 'As, "however,: visitors from oversea and those sportsmen in New Zealand who do:, not, know Mr, Wilford might r give: undue importance ,;to his/opinion, niy council decided to ask you to give it an opportunity of contradicting Mr. Wilford's extraordinary statements.; . -That so-called .''razor-back" trout do oxist ; in-Lake Rotbrua ;we frankly admit, 'Among all living creatures on this- earth there, aro to be found the •fat and the lean, Surely Mr.-Wilford will admit that fact. That during his fow. days!.sojourn' here ho ; waß .unfortunate, enough'' to And only, tho.leaiii ; trbttVcanOTt-,Wssibly/''be deemed ft sufficient Texcus'o-for'his unwar-' ranted attnok on Rotorua as a fishing resort. His action in publishing,such statements was' certainly-unsportsmanlike.- 'Perhaps Mr/Wilfprd would'have boon- more successful had ho sought advice and ; information from those experienced .in.'local."angling." ..The fact remains that during the same period other anglers were, getting big.baskets, of .fish: in splendid condition.' ', Mr. iWilfnrd's siiW' . tions as to .netting, otc, are by no means new, .but in: : the form he 'presents' them are manifestly .unpractical. ' The. netting, or otherwise the fish in the tributary streams during .thb spawning" season, when the fish for the most part are to be found within small compass, with the destruction of all bad-conditioned fish v has already been

considered and adyooated by my council, and jn its opinion would give "excellent results. ' \\ith profound apologies to tho Kaiser, 1 ■quote tho following oablegram from' Berlin, jivhich seems to somewhat,aptly' meot tho prosent case:—"Tho Kaiser requests the German press to refraiu from publishing furthernows of-.his. doings. His. Majesty states that-ho desires to live as quiot -a life as possible.-!!. -I trust that Mr. Wilfordwillfollow suoh anil; lustnous example,-or at-least in future-'re-frain from rushing/into print with'Suoh misleading,- potty, and' nonsensical -statements; On behalf - of- the executive of tKo.Rotoiua Rod and;G\m Clnh, I am, etc., ' >.-.'■ ' ; . : ")':" -'' '" Y T.L. THOMPSON, : ; ;■[ y Y. : ,; ■' Hon. Sec. R.R. and G.'Clubl, •