FISH RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 5

FISH RESEARCH

LORD BLEDISLOE'S SUPPORT

SOCIETIES' APPRECIATION

The following letter has,been sent to his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, by Mr. L. O. H. Tripp, president of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies'' Association:— •

"I am directed by the executive of the acclimatisation -societies to write to you on behalf of the members of acclimatisation societies in New Zealand to express our. regret at the coming departure of yourself and her Excellency from New Zealand.

;"We realise how much you have done during your term of office to point out to the young and old the necessity for protection of our native flora and fauna, and also the.great interest that you have taken in the encouragement of sport in New Zealand, and we are very pleased that during your busy time with us you have been able to take part in our fishing, shooting, and deer-stalking, and that her Excellency has been so successful, as an angler. "We: also appreciate the fact that you were able to attend Professor Percival's. lecture on fish.research, and.to give the societies encouragement in that important branch of their work in their attempts to keep up and improve the standard of our fishing. . "On behalf" of the members of acclimatisation societies of the Dominion, . I wish . you and her Excellency allgood fortune, and express the hope that it will not be long before we have the pleasure of seeing you both yin New Zealand again." .'■•-.' a ' His Excellency, has replied as follows:—

> "I write to send you my appreciative acknowledgments of. your letter of February 5, written on behalf of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies' Association, and to assure you that its generous expressions of friendly good will are most gratifying to Lady Bledisloe and me. We are not likely to forget our happy experiences in the realm of sport. My/own activities, in that direction have naturally been more extensive. than those of her Excellency. Nevertheless, she is delighted with her own success on more than one occasion as-an angler, despite the fact that she refuses to attribute, that success to her skill in the art of fishing. - . ■■■•■■.'■

"I am particularly interested in ;the activities • of- the acclimatisation societies in fostering fish research. In my judgment this is a most important work which cannot fail to be of Increasing value in improving still further "the 'standard' of New Zealand's unrivalled\trout fishing." : ;,