ACCILIMATISATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 37, 28 September 1911, Page 5

ACCILIMATISATION.

(Per Press Association.) Palmerston IS., September 27. A largely attended meeting of the Acclimatisation Society and anglers to-night decided to establish holding ponds capable of turning out 30,000 yearlings annually in the esplanade reserve. Experiments conducted with the town water in the fountain basin in the square resulted in remarkable success in turning out yearling rainbow trout during the past three years, ft is now proposed to establish holding ponds, fed by the water supply, and to turn out 30,000 rainbow yearlings annually, into the Manawatu, Mangataiuoka, Makuri, Akatarewa

and other district streams. It was stated that streams in this district which have now brown trout, would, if fully stocked with rainbow, form the finest fly-fishing streams in the world for three to four pound fish, experienced anglers holding that nowhere else, oven in New Zealand, are there so many and such suitable streams as from this watershed. So far the fry turned out is eaten by big trout and eels, but where Iho fry was hold to thi yearling stage the turning out has been a great success. It is proposed to get fry from the Wellington Society and rear it hero. The cost of landing ponds is estimated at £l5O, ol a Inch the Wellington Society, which receives £OOO to £IOO annually in license fees, etc., from the district, is to he asked for £SO, the rest being subscribed locally. The Borough domicil is to lie asked for a site and water. Brown trout wore first liberated bore about 10 years ago, and nro in all the. streams, but it is thought rainbow trout would ho much prefcrai le