WELLINGTON NOTES.
« . (speciat. To " T Ff i' mr"? ") WELLINGTON, May 18. There was a. general concensus of opinion at tho Acclimatisation Society J meeting Last night that both birds and ; fish are becoming much lo<-s numerous in tho Wellington cind other districts. I There was an outcry against worm j fishing, which is supposed to bo respon- ; s-ible Icr tiie scarcity of good trout in i our streams. Tho * poacher. both oi bird and fisjh al-o eamo in fer general comleiunation. The export o* potators from New Zealand to the Chatham Islande is fori bidden by Oidc-r-in-Council in yesterI day's "Gazette.'" Tho penalty provided iis forfeiture of tho goods shipped and ia fin? nf £500. I Wellingtons one-lion Zoo continues !to bo tho subject of homo attention - j hero. At the City Council meeting j last evening it w«s announced that ! '"the Town Clerk had written to the ' directors of the Zoological Gardens in Sydney and Melbourne, far information.''' Tills announcement raised n, chorus of sniiln-;. The lion is up Palmi ereton North way. and is to be cni trained lor Wellington.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 5
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