I have said before that William WATSON loved to fish and that didn’t change once he arrived in New Zealand. His Angling Register shows that on the opening day of the 1906 fishing season (October 1st), less than three months after arriving in New Zealand, he was fishing in the Manawatu River.

Angling Register belonging to William WATSON
The Marlborough Express, Wednesday, 30 September 1908 printed the following article written by their Picton correspondent.

The Marlborough Express - Wednesday 30 September 1908
Now, just in case you are like me and don’t have a single clue as to what ‘become disciples of Isaac Walton‘ means, here’s a little bit about Mr Walton from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635163/Izaak-Walton (It’s worth reading, as the article gives a description of The Compleat Angler.)
Izaak Walton, (born Aug. 9, 1593, Stafford, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Dec. 15, 1683, Winchester, Hampshire), English biographer and author of The Compleat Angler (1653), a pastoral discourse on the joys and stratagems of fishing that has been one of the most frequently reprinted books in English literature. Since the late 18th century, more than 300 editions of The Compleat Angler have appeared…
And land o’ cakes?? Well, I went here http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/LandoCakesThe.504.shtml and found this:
The Land o’ Cakes
Burns used this expression to describe Scotland in the opening line of his poem ‘On the Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland’:
“Hear, Land o’ Cakes and brither Scots”.
Robert Fergusson had already used the expression in his poem ‘The King’s Birthday in Edinburgh’:
“Oh, soldiers! For your ain dear sakes
For Scotland’s, alias, Land o’ Cakes.”
About the middle of the 14th Century Froissart visited Scotland, and in his Chronicles, described the staple diet of the Scots soldier: ‘Under the flap of his saddle, each man carries a broad plate of metal; behind the saddle, a little bag of oatmeal. When they have eaten too much… sodden flesh, and their stomach appears weak and empty, they place their plate over the fire, mix with water their oatmeal, and when the plate is heated they put a little of the paste upon it, and make a thin cake, like a crackenel or biscuit, which they eat to warm their stomachs; it is therefore no wonder that they perform a longer day’s march than other soldiers.’
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Here’s the Angling Register for 1908. And, yes, William managed to go fishing on the opening day of this fishing season too.

Angling Register belonging to William WATSON
It’s interesting to see that the additions to the Terminus Hotel had already commenced by the time William became licensee in 1908. I have discovered that they were to continue for quite some time.
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