DOMINION NEWS.
FHEoH WATER. FISH. (By Telegraph —Ireaa absociauou.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 26. A conference of hatchery curators, rangers, Government officials and research students was held to-day. The chairman, Mr. L. C. H. Tripp, said that food suppies for fish needed) repi acting and strengthening. In this work an investigation on a scientific basis could assist enormously. He mentioned that the encouragement of the export of eels, once a profitable trade with Germany, might heip trout against this natural enemy. The Wellington and Christchurch Acclimatisation Societies had appointed students of food of trout, but he believed much more could be done, and the time would come when a man of the calibre of Mr. Hefford coufd profitably be engaged on fresh water biology alone.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 February 1929, Page 4
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