A FISHY BUSINESS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12963, 30 May 1935, Page 4

A FISHY BUSINESS.

THE POACHER'S WAY

that there has been some *‘funnv busmeiss * going on in certain or 1d» local rivers is the belief of one or

U'° m tho He.’**tin d -trict. Mr \\ . H. Peters, for iiistniice. ’a.st. week-end had his attention drawn to a significant fact. A family gatheiing was held beside the river or lrs property last Sunday and the children were playing about in a stretch of sand three to four chains long. One of tile grand-children suddeniv called out: “Grandpa! Here’s a nig trout.” And it was. hut the trout (measuring about 14 inches ..| length) was dead and lying on * h < sand a few feet from the water's edge. Soon after. another of the small children called to his mother to help him drag ;l “motor tvre ’ out. ot the sand but oil investigation tho “tyre” proved to 1 H a huge oei weighing anything from 1() to 12 ihs —also dead. As the flood had he.-.t over the stretch of sand a feu da-s previously it had no doubt left its deposit of dead fisli but why a he d-thy-looking trout and a'big eel should want te die in the water must remain a. mystery. Even if strn ide-l a few feet from the water's edge an eel would have no difficulty in wriggling back into the river so the on!v assumption that someone had been using gelatine further up the river and the flood had deposited the dead fish which later floated to the face. N