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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)

A suggestion that the introduction of beavers to New Zealand rivers would be of assistance in the conservation of fish and game does not find favour with Mr. E. F. Stead, Christchurch, who is an authority on the Dominions wild life. Arguments in favour of the heaver as a desirable immigrant were advanced by Mr. E. J. Schofield in a recent address to the Auckland Acclimatization Society on American and Canadian acclimatization work. Mt Stead said he could not conceive that, beavers would be of any value to fish lug iu New Zealand. They certainly cohid not live in 90 per eenl. of the fishing streams in the South Island. There were rivers in the North Island, however, near Raetihl and Ohakuue, for example, where they might do welL