ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY
THE ANNUAL REPORT, The annual report of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society, which was to havo been presented at the mooting called ,for Thursday, but which was postponed for want of a quorum, is as follows: Financial.—-Receipts for the year, £248 13s 6d j balance carried forward from previous year, £251 6s lid; expenditure for-the year, £3ll 10s 8d; leaving a credit balance of £IBB 9s 9d; ■ cash assets of the Society, £355 16s 9d'; liabilities amount to,, £34 10s; leaving 1 the Society to credit, £321 6s 9d. In presenting "their report for the year , 1914-15 to the members of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society the Council have pleasure in placing before them such a satisfactory Balance-sheet, notwithstanding that the revenue from trout licenses was, no more than last year. Deer. —The number of licenses to stalk deer during the year 1914-15 was 134, compared with 130 issued the previous year . The stalkers were not quite Ao successful in securing good heatds as ~ last year, „ the stags probably keeping "more in the bush owing to the dry Beason. In accordance with the recommonda-' tions of an Advisory Board, your Coun- ' cil, acting , under instructions from a general meeting, erected a deer park in Todd's Bush. The park has proved anything but a success through the' difficulty,in securing any does, and your Council would recommend that • thoenclosur© be taken down and the i wire netting sold. , , ~.' * Trout. —The ova purchased 'from' the ■ Otago Acclimatisation Society, was", .to- l ceived in perfect condition,, enabling the Curator to have a very successful hatching out. . ■ The young trout were distributed in. > , the following rivers: — - - Maitai .. 50,000' Upper Motueka and Motxxpiko 50,000. Stanley Brook, Graham, Dove 50,000 Whangamoa , 30,000 „• "Happy Valley . '30,000, ' Wairoa and Aniseed, x 60,000 Upper Wai-iti , '20,000 Baton . , • 10,090,^ .Total! • ; 300,000 '•; -- In the early part of the season:/;, .the, - .fishing in the 'Maitai was better than . has been, for years, but later • . continued,dry. weather almost entitely >' put a stop to' any' fishing in "this river. *, The Motueka still held ;its reputation'' as being the l best river in the district. "The -•'. Teports of the fishing in the Whangamoa , and Wairoa >vere fairly satisfactory, Wttt ( , very few fish were' caught'in'the Alruseed or Happy Valley. t i ."' Shortly after the close of theaeown. . ' the Curator, assisted by three- members of the Council, had a very successful ' day in the Wai-iti, when they succeeded in netting several thousand strong! youhg trout, which were liberated in \> the - Wairoa and Maitai. Your Council recommend that the "Wai-iti should • W . netted again next year as soon as the river is low enough /which. would ■ en-, able the rivers to be 're-stocked at a small expense, and the fish so, secured . would have a very good chance of our- v , vivitig. * ','•*' \ * 1 Pheasants.—The country members '*£ - , the Council report that the t pheasanta are thriving, and> that joveria hundred ' young birds have been seen in various parts'of the district. ' "'■ >- - Banging. —The Ranger has ; workefl, \ hard in the interests- of the Society,- and I the Council is of" opinion that he has . heen the means of greatly checkingpoaching. : ■ o
ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 May 1915, Page 1
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