ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13710, 18 April 1910, Page 8

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

ANNUAL -REPORT,

The foriy-sixth annual report and balance-sheet of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society have been issued. There has been a profit of £49 13s 9d on the year's working. The revenue, from fishing licenses was £875 17s, a decrease of £27 15s 6d. The Counqil were disappointed at the Government's decision in not allowing the Society to control the deer at Rakaia Gorge as a herd, so that all licenses to shoot amongst such deer should be upon the recommendation of the Society. The report of the Garden Committee btates that the hatching and rearing has again been most successful. The number of trout reared this >year is the same as last year, amounting to three-quarters of a million. The committee regret being unable to report any satisfactory results from breeding wild-fowl in the large area newly set aside for that purpose in the Gardens, neither can tboy offer any satisfactory reasons for the failure, but recommend that the experiment still be continued next season. The Canadian geese at Glenmark and in tho Gardens have bred remarkably well, three broods having been reared. No better results can be reported from the continued stocking tho rivers with rainbow trout. Very few have been caught anywhere in the district. It is to be regretted that neither the landlocked salmon nor the Mackinan trout bred in the gardens last year, but it is confidently expected that they will do so this season. Ten Canadian geese are to be sent to Lake Sumner. The breeding stock in the ponds has been considerably reduced, owing to the Society now being able to secure any quantity of ova from the Selwyn river, and the determination to reduce expenditure by breeding fewer rainbow. Fighty-nine thousand yearlings wore distributed during the year. All stock fish are now two years old.