[?] G Trout Experiment

Scores Major Success

PHOUSANDS of healthy rainbow trout are breeding in streams of Papua and New Guinea as le result of the establishment of hatchery at Lake Bergestrand. ,137 ft above sea level and with

a water temperature of 64 deg. Fahr.

Five years ago Sir Edward Hallstrom, the Sydney philan thropist, demonstrated, with a con signment of rainbow fingerhngs flown from Sydney, that trout could live in New Guinea rivers; and about two years ago the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. had 10,000 rainbow ova flown from New Zealand.

Nearly 90 p.c. of the eggs in the first hatching reached maturity, and when the fingerlings were three weeks old they were transferred to the Baiune River, near Lake Berge strand.

The company is jealously guarding the Baiune from any influx of

enthusiastic fishermen. For obvious reasons, it wants to protect the

breeding-grounds.

■ v Tourist trips up the Rewa and wainibuka Rivers, Viti Levu, in 25knot flat-bottomed river canoes, are p i anne d at Suva. Travellers w in sail through the heart of the banana country and past many Fijian villages bordering the river banks. The Nasamu Falls (200 ft. in three drops) are visited. The outing starts by car from Suva to the Baulevu Landing, then an hour by canoe to the falls, an hour for swimming and about half an hour downstream to the Landing.