TROUT FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 4

TROUT FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND.

WHAT A BRITISH OFFICER THINKS. An officer of the British Army, who has enjoyed much good trout-fishing in New Zealand, is quite at a loss to understand why tho Government does not increase the license fees for trout-fishing in New Zealand. "I can quite understand their not wishing to increase fees for New Zealamlers, many of whom can only snatch a few hours at week-ends to fish, but with visitors to New Zealand it is a very different thing. Why, nt Homo wo would have to pay anything from .£SOO to X'2ooo per season for a stretch ot good trout water not a quarter so good, however, as von have at Taupo. Ihpo peoplo who com'o out from Homo to fish would not think it out of (ho way if they wero charged .£lO or .£2O instead of £1 for a fishins license. I retuUlu other day of a man having caught l>i tons of trout at Taupo during last season-six and a half tons of fishing for *1. Its ridiculous —von New Zcalandcrs have a splendid issct in your trout, but you make it tod cheap Nobody likes anything that is too cheap. Put a proper value on the fishing license and you will have more peoplecoming from abroad to fish your waters. When they hoar in England thatfishing licenses may be ootainod for ,Cl, (hoy, in ima"ination, sees one of their own litlle. rivcr= °with people sitting a yard apart all along the banks. Charge ,C2fl and tliov will consider that they might havo „ Mmice. Hero is a man catches, with no ml! six am] a half tons of CI, Whv that must be a world s record, yet T do'not hear of the Government seizing on the fact as a really great advertisement for New Zealand. , It would be a belter advertisement than all the titles that are being distributed.

The sum of .ffl Bs. -was collected Inst oveniiiß at the annual nicotine of tho St. John Ambulance Corps.

Tho famous Eton Society lcnmra as "Pep," which was founded in !Sll, will, in honour of its centenary, hold a l , dinner in the eohool hall on July U»