ACCLIMATISATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 9

ACCLIMATISATION.

WAIKATO V. AUCKXAND. MATAMATA FAYOt*K3 AUCKLAND. A meeting of the Matamata Acclimatisation Sub-Society was held this week to discuss the attempted breakaway hy Waikato from the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. There were about twenty present, including license holders from Matamata. Taihoa. Turangaomoaca. VA*aharoa and Walton. Mr. W. TV. Livingstone (Matamata occupied the chair and explained the object of the meeting, outlining the recent negotiations on the part of the Waikato dissentients.

After discussion it was decided, on the motion of Mr. Seaeer Mason: ''That this meeting of Matamata and district shooting- and iishing license holders decide to adhere to the Auckland Society, providing that that body is willing to hold their meetings alternately at Auckland and Hamilton, and also provided that each license holder is allowed to vote by proxy at annual meetings for the election of officers, or anything else pertaining to the welfare of the society."'

A further motion, proposed by Mr. R. McCabe. which was carried, was to ask that the Puriri and Waimakariri streams (considered the best breeding streams in the district) be closed at the end of the 192">-2f> season, in order to give the young trout a chance to mature.

It was stared that the Auckland petition which had been circulated, would be held up. pending the result of the requests re voting and the alternate place of meeting. The jreneral feeling throughout the district is that as regards the distribution of trout fry and birds, the Upper Thames Valley has been well treated by the Auckland Society, and that there would be no cause for dissatisfaction if the requests mentioned were granted.