ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.
A BUST YEAR. ■ • According to the annual report of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society the year ended on March 31 was a particularly busy one. No less tluiu 000,000 trout fry was distributed. Fisliing licenses sold last season totalled 900, «nd the iishing was exceptionally good. A good number of convictions for poaching and breaches of the regulations had been obtained, and the society paid out £S0 in rewards. Emphasis was "id on the importance of destroying Jiawks, which preyed on young game. Ust year over £20S was paid ou'i for in-f* icyi < <-bis sum representing «Vito hawks. During the season 1317 Peasants had been distributed. Mention was made in the report that the .ocicty was urging the Government to jegm acclimatising Atlantic salmon in sill ;' at ° ? ivw " T]le ~alance of the 89«ety showed that the revenue for the C? S 1 f ?? oiaexceßßof the expend' *gj,_ and there was a bank credit of
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 8 April 1925, Page 9
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