NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 7

NELSON NEWS

H4CE FOR FISHERMEN

THiE PROPERTY MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent.) : .', ' "\ NELSON, v 21st May. 1 Jho Nolson Acclimatisation Socioty fiu .'nishes the following report on tho; na .tivo birds in the province: Bellbird, in creasing; bush canary, normal; a i-eepor, pipipitoitoi, normal; cuckoo, Jjng tailed, rare; cuckoo, shining, nor--1 aal in season; Dottrell, banded, raro; < ducks, grey and paradise, increasing in southorn part of district; f antails, black and pied, Increasing; fern birds, - matata, few in parts of district; grobe, crested, few on southern lakes in district;'heron, blue, rare; kaka, decreas-. ing; kingfisher, increasing; owl, ruru, increasing; parakeet, red fronted, rare; parakeet, yellow fronted, increasing; penguin, blue, normal; pigeon, kereru, normal; pukeko, increasing; rifleman, normal; robin, South Island, increasing; shag, black and white throated, increasing; tui, increasing; tomtit, increasing; white eye, increasing; woodhen, weka, increasing. .: • The annual report of >the society contains an interesting .account of the fine trout fishing obtained in tho district. "As stated in last year's report that information had been received from Lake Botoroa ,O»at tho rainbowtrout liberated there'some years ago were showing signs qtf being well established, your council is pleased to report that this season has -proved to bo really first-class. Visitors from other parts ofsthe Dominion, and from overseas, as well as local anglers, have had very fine sport with the rainbow ' trout. Fish up ; to fottrteen and a half pounds have been taloen, while a rough estimate of the total number of fish taken during the season is close on jiva,;hundred, at an laverage weight of five to six pounds efwh. The fishing in our rivers has beepi fair during the •season, and . some rijial good sport has been obtained. The/ Maitai still stands up to the heavy toll (that is taken, while the Riwaka River 'has proved itself to bo one of the best; fly streams in the Dominion. During I'the year your council has hatched out over six hundred thousand fry in thp new hatchery, and liberated them a;j. follows:. Rainbow fry, 75,000 in Lalf c Botoiti;.; 10,000 in Lake Daniels, neiar the Maruia hot springs, and about 7000 in two small lakes near the West Wanganui inlet. ' Brown trout fry::1 Maitai, 90,000; and in the following j rivers (35,000 each), Upper Wairoa, Lower Wairoa^ Aniseed Valley, ; Lea Vajley, Happy: Valley, Whangamoa, Lender Motueka, Upper Mot«!eka, Wangajpeka, Motupiko, and Biw'aka; Tadmor! (20,000), Mangles 1 Eiver (10,000)." . Mr. E. Sherwtxid was elected an.honorary life memvTj.er, of the society, in recognition of l.is long services. He has for 46 years' been curator.^ "I have no cKinse to complain: about the quantity of. business we are doing," said a Nelson/ land and estate agent ■when intervie-ivea to-day. "In fact,' he added, "I think we in Nelson are lucky after hearing the reports of very bad times in other towns.- Our business is fair, .with a 1 number of recent sales in houj c 'properties. For a long time now tlj.ere has been, a large demand for houses to let, and. we have been unable • to find enough to anywhere near satisfy the' demand." Another agent said "he had effected a number of sales in J louse properties, but buyers were cautious. In most'cases deposits were paid-j ('However,. there is absolutely no iiiemand for farm property," he added! In common with other agents wlf o were interviewed," he said' I there wafi a scarcity of houses for letting, and/ while there was such' a largo demand,»t was impossible for rents to -••drop. .-■■.■:■;?-■« .••■:i.-;':^-»V>!~:^.:-««- ■ - .■■ :'4:.: :■?'■ :-l Tcster.xlay saw the season's last case of oxpowf; fruit inspected at Nelson and forwarclod to Wellington, making the. total' fijbm the province for the seasori:, 815J447'cases, which''is over 30;000 case's in excfiss of last year's record production. • ffhe total comprised 789,117 cases of apijiles and 26,330 cases.of pears.