TOUT IN LAKE TAUPO

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7866, 31 July 1911, Page 3

TOUT IN LAKE TAUPO

iTo tlie Editor "N. 55. Timcy.") gjr,—Koforrinff to rny letter, which. you 50 kindly published in reference to the stocking of Lake Taupo with kwii ami rainbv.v trout, T. find 1 oniiti,ed to r-tato tho date cm wiirc-.il tho- rainbow- wore Bret liberated in the lake. and. a« tins is of national importance to Xtw Zealand in tho future, may I a«k you to publish this letter? t linvo before me Hie original petition from East and. West ) tnipo ’residents-a copy of whirl, >* en•Josecl—referred to m my letter. the petition distinctly states that tho 6M rain iron" were placed hi Taupo in IWW. put only a very small quantity. I It'4ovo d-*x, the-iv. wire a for h uihlu.<l in the bike in 1!>0V. You will. Iberelorc. note that brown trout were nrst pi need in tho lube in. 1«98, ml ten yours later NUO3) the rainbow. Rainbow were placea in the Waikato river Mew the iluka Falls previous to the stocking or bake l f au)X>. It is most that t.h-cM' dates bo made clear, (osirow the; abnormal growth, of tho raialy/w a'ute.i 'fere '•aught in Lake Taupo / 1W yecu-s alter they were first liberated —up t-o H) in weight. The enormous quantity ol food In the, lake, such us frogs, kounv, onnnjw. and young brown. trout, was no doubt tho cause of the wonderful growth o. tho trout in tho lake.— I am etc., 0. It. CHAPMAN, Mount Eden, AueMnml. July 14th. 1911. [Copy.]

SPETITIOtV TO THE AUCKLAND AC--1 CLtvLVTTSATtaN socrui’Y.

Wc. tho undersigned residents of. Taupo, Tokaami, and Wairukoi districts beg to petition your society to arrange to liberate one million (1.000,0(10) rainbow trout fry in the 'rivers running into Lake Taupo, next season (1905).

Experts on those matters have stated, H,nd wo are assured, that those rivers are tbo very best and most approved for rainbow 'trout in New Zealand, haring gravel bottoms, and boilin' Ireo from contejfmimvti.on by poisonous matters from tho washing of • mining distri-cte and saw mills. , . . 1 W? foal sure that there 4 13 a great future for anglers on these rivers, should our application bo accodcd to. We have petitions! the Government to inoliide bake Tiuipo and all tbo cnpitying into this lake in tbo Auckland Acclimatisation Society’s district. W® have also petitioned tho Government to vote .£ 1 tor <£l to your society to enable it to carry pm- application into effect next season, and we leave every recoil to hope that they will grant onr petition. in view of tho largo increase ot tourist traffic the good tehing in these rivers would, bring. \V U take the opportunity of thanking ycruir society for the fry placedjn the Lake Taupe rivers last season (ISKw), l>ut tho q-uanutv is so small in wanpanson with tho mileage of the nvors and tho enormous expanse of tho lako (2o x 17 miles'., that it would be many yejira before these rivers would be stocked at tliat rate of liberation. You aro not doubt aware that rainbow trout have become well acclimatised in the 'Waikato mver below tho Hizita Falls.