STOCKING THE RIVERS.
A PALMERSTON SCHEME.
[from our ow!n correspondent.] Palmerston North, Sunday. The Palmerston North Acclimatisation Society and a number of angling enthusiasts recently decided to* establish holding ponds, 12ft by 120 ft, capable of turning out 30,000 yearlings annually. These will be placed in the Manawatu, Maugatainoka, Makuri, Akatarawa, and other district streams. It was stated that the streams in this district, which have at present brown trout, would, if fully stocked with rainbow, form the finest flyfishing streams in the world for from three to four pound fish. Experienced anglers hold that nowhere else are there so many or such ' suitable streams as from this watershed. It is proposed to get fry from the Wellington society. The cost of the holding ponds is estimated at £150. Of this sum the Wellington society is to be asked to contribute £50, the balance to bo subscribed locally..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 5
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