384 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



sand flies, etc., which are so bad that without some effective 

 fly repeller they will most effectually prevent fishing. The 

 specific sold by Messrs. Allen and Hanburys, Ltd., called 

 " Muscabane," is unrivalled in its power of driving away 

 every kind of flying or creeping insect pest. It is made up 

 in one ounce and two ounce tubes, and the effect of a very 

 little of this cream applied to the face, neck, arms, etc., 

 will last for several hours. It is not only a preventive, but 

 it is a cure for bites already inflicted, and is extremely 

 pleasant in its perfume. 



In no other country in the world does the Government 

 take such a paternal interest in the success of the sportsmen 

 who visit its shores as does the New Zealand Government 

 with regard to its sporting visitors. Both in the Northern 

 and Southern Islands are established numerous offices of the 

 New Zealand Government Tourist Agency, and if the tourist 

 be in difficulties, no matter what the circumstances, if he 

 can only get a message to the nearest office of the agency, 

 he will find his difficulties are things of the past. Every 

 information as regards hotels, fishing and shooting districts 

 and quarters, mountaineering or sight-seeing, is provided 

 free of charge, and the visitor can place himself unreservedly 

 in the agents' hands, secure in the knowledge that the best 

 and at the same time the most moderate methods of 

 accomplishing the object of his visit to New Zealand will be 

 explained to him. 



Convenient and cheap railways, steamboats and coaches 

 take the tourist from one part of New Zealand to any other 

 part, and the expenses of a fishing trip to that country 

 compare very favourably with those of a fishing trip in any 

 other portion of the world, while the certainty of obtaining 

 any amount of the best sport is assured. Not only have the 

 moose, the elk, and Virginia deer been introduced by the 

 agency of the New Zealand Tourist Department, but the 



