No Eeels in Upper Waikato
MAORI EXPLANATION OF THEIR ABSENCE. (Special to the Times-l AUCKLAND, Feb. 12. No eels are found in the Waikato river a.t a certain point above Arapuni, a strange fact which led a member at a meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society to suggest that it should be made the subject of scientific investigation. Before the creation of Arapuni lake there was a small fall in the locality, but in flood time it was a rapid and, for that reason, it is not thought it could liavo been a bar to eels’ migration south. On the other tributary streams in the district, the eel has been known to circumvent waterfalls Uy traversing the dew laden grass in the paddocks, while eels readily make a steep ascent through spray drenched moss. Some of the old Maoris offer an ingenious explanation of the eelless portion of the Waikato. They say it was the happy huntin" ground of the taniwha and, for til n't reason, the eels did not invade it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 2
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172No Eeels in Upper Waikato Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 2
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