SOUTHERN LAKES ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4688, 26 April 1945, Page 3

SOUTHERN LAKES ACCLIMATISATION DISTRICT

DEVELOPMENT OF FISHING AND SHOOTING Tangible evidence that the Government is losing no time in tackling the task of developing the fish and game resources of this district is afforded by the presence of a party of technical experts of the Department of Internal Affairs which is to be the administering authority.

The party, which arrived in Queenstown on Tuesday of last week, after spending a week in Wanaka-Hawea region, is led by Major G. F. Yerex, who is head of the Field Service of the Wildlife and Fish and Game Conservation Branch of the Department. Other members of the party are: Mr A. Kean, the department’s conservator of fish and game of the Rotorua-

Taupo district, who has been co-opted with a view to applying his technical knowledge to some of the fish-culture problems that call for solution and to learn first-hand the means whereby the resources of the Rotorua-Taupo district, in the way of supplies of trout ova and hatchery equipment, can be brought to bear in the improvement of the fisheries of this district. Mr B. A. Yoreoe, the department’s director of door operations and assistant inspector under the Animals’ Protection and Game Act, whose work has for years been largely . connected with wildlife conservation of this region. Hr W. C. Condon, late manager of the department’s Tongariro hatchery, who has been appointed senior fishery officer and hatcheries manager of the Southern Lakes District.

After a comprehensive survey of the Lake Wakatipu region the party will proceed to Te Anau and Hanapouri and then to the Cromwell-Alex-andra area.

It is understood that already the reconditioning of the previously much dilapidated hatchery at Wanaka is well advanced and similar work at the' Queenstown hatchery will be .commenced at the end of this month and both hatcheries will be ready for full-scale operations by the time the first supplies of ova are available.