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serve as a gillie or a body servant. Wages are high, work 

 is abundant, men are scarce, and in such a democratic 

 country as New Zealand there is a disinclination on the part 

 of the class which is represented by those to whom we allude 

 as the labouring or servant class, to render personal services 

 to any man. If therefore the tourist is used to the services 

 of a valet nothing would suit his book better than to take 

 such a servant with him to New Zealand, and if such an one 

 can cook, can valet, and is accustomed to roughing it, he 

 will be of the greatest possible use and comfort during a 

 fishing trip. If not, it is better on one's arrival at Christ- 

 church or Wellington to try and obtain the services of some 

 such a servant, especially one who has already had some 

 experience of camping out in New Zealand. 



In the South Island the streams are, I think, more get- 

 at-able than in the North Island, and if the fisherman 

 desires to be independent and to start at any particular 

 moment from one place to another, or to go to any place 

 for a few days or hours, the trip will be rendered much more 

 pleasant if he has his own means of transport. 



The tourist to New Zealand must remember that those 

 rivers in which he may get the best sport are likely to be in 

 districts which are often inaccessible to either motor car 

 or buggy. In these cases if horse vehicles are used the 

 animals can be turned into pack horses as occasion requires, 

 and the necessary tent, food and clothing can be taken from 

 the buggy, etc., to any desired fishing. A buggy with two 

 horses can be hired at a certain definite price, and can be 

 taken for a week, for a month or longer, and may be only 

 necessary for a certain portion of the trip. If a long journey 

 has to be made the railway companies offer facilities for 

 transporting both horse and buggy, motor car, etc. Better 

 still than depending on horses, which after all take up a 

 considerable amount of time in grooming, feeding and 



