The traveller who has read of tho great catches of trout at Rotorua goes to the thermal city in anticipation of tasting this delicacy io the full; in his mind’s eye he sees it, grilled, boiled or otherwise cooked, piled high on the breakfast table, specialised in at luncheon, and one of the chief courses at ■linner. But, alas! (says the Auckland "Star’’) the fish native to this Ashland is as rare to tho tables of Rotorua’s boardinghouses ns are sparrows at sea; it seems that the Rofnri’n resident is "fed up” of trout and he never considers the possibility of it 1 eim: relished bv visitors, who are fed on schnapper fillets from Raglan and smoked st a,A’ from Auckland when they ask for fis), Similar complaint is . made regardin'Russell, whore, according to visitors, "fish is allowed to rof, on tho beach while tho table goes bare of it.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 10
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