LIBERATION OF TROUT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20618, 20 November 1941, Page 7

LIBERATION OF TROUT

AVOIDING FLOODTIME WEATHER ADVICE SOUGHT (Per Presß Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In an effort to avoid liberating trout fry at a time when there is danger of their destruction by floods, the Wellington Acclimatisation Society has had recourse to the services of the meteorological office to determine the best period for the liberation of fry. At a meeting of the council of the society last night, the chairman, Mr. D. J. Gibbs, commented that this year fry had been liberated, then floods had followed, probably destroying most of them. Consequently information had been sought through the Government meteorological service. “You/will appreciate that our rainfall is so very erratic that very little reliance should be placed on statistics when applied to single years,” stated a letter from the meteorological office fbr Wellington. “A month with 6in. of rain is decidedly wet and so, using Gin. as an arbitrary standard, we have on record 16 wet Augusts, eight wet Septembers and 13 wet Octobers over the last 80 years. These facts suggest that September is the month best suited to your needs and probably the first week of September is, on the average, the safest.”