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dropped active attention to trout acclimatization, 

 to renew their interest in it, to sanction further 

 expenditure, and to encourage the movement 

 generally. When a reporter on the Natal 

 Witness^ about nineteen years ago, I saw Mr. 

 Winter, then Colonial Secretary of the Natal 

 Government, at Pietermartizburg, and it was a 

 pleasure to see that he was in complete sympathy 

 with the undertaking ; I remember well, even at 

 this distant date, how he pressed the point that 

 good trout fishing was not only an asset in itself 

 to a Colony, but also that it was a distinct source 

 of attraction to visitors. 



The Natal Government now invited Mr. 

 Parker to superintend the hatcheries. His was 

 an honorary post, the Government paying out-of- 

 pocket expenses. The original plant was trans- 

 ferred to Tetworth, and was supplemented by 

 two stock ponds. The work flourished, and 

 as honorary superintendent Mr. Parker was 

 responsible for various distributions of trout in 

 different parts of Natal. The happy days which 

 anglers have had on the Mooi, the Umgeni, the 

 Bushman's, and other Natal rivers are thus all 

 traceable to the pioneer work at Boschfontein 

 (where the plant originally was) and at Tetworth. 



Eternal vigilance is the physical price of 

 success in running a trout hatchery. I recall 

 a day spent at Tetworth in 1901. Mr. Parker 

 took me to a spruit close to the farmstead, where 

 he had made a little dam, from which the water, 

 led away through a wooden spout, fell into the 



