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Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 25

Mr Ay son (Chief Inspector of Fisheries) was :i about the life history of whiteImil; which *wnm np tilt? rivers in their millions at this time of the year. Air Ayson confessed that little was known of tho life hi of whitebait. It lead not yot been dHiiibel v established that the whitebait ov<*r developed further than tho state in which we know it, hut he was inclined to favour the Maori theory that v. hiieba i (;. } o-c-oiuo tho bright little fi h (about 6in ni lenetli) which are in autumn in the whitebait rivers, for whenever there was n -jood whitebait sea-mi in the .spring, the mantra appeared to be moi'c plentiful in tho n.iitumn. Whether the inamra developed any furtlier when it reached die sea he was unable to say.