HISTORY OF TROUT CULTURE IN CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14667, 16 May 1913, Page 4

HISTORY OF TROUT CULTURE IN CANTERBURY.

TO THE EQITOa 6* ''XBS ?BES3."

Sir,—Please .grant mc a short space is your early issue to correct the misstatement by yoar correspondent in re "introduction of trotifc into Canterbury." At a special meeting of the council of the Acclimatisation Society held early in August, 1807, it was uecided that the. curator (Mr A. M. Johnson) should proceed at once to Hobart Town.- to tako charge of. and bring down any ova that might bo presented by the Royal Society in accordance with Dr. Officer's kind promise the year previous, with the distinct understanding

that tho curator should have £30 on account of his expenses, his salary continued as heretofore, and a man provided to attend to his (tho curator's) duties at tho Society's expense. It was also decided that he should receive a bonus of £1 for every n'sh reared to l>o six weeks old. Eight hundred trout ova were presented by tho Commissioners, and packed in the eamo manner as those which had" boon sent out tronx England. At the October. Io(i7, meeting of tho council, the curator reported that three only had been hatched out. This was the first attempt to introduce tho fish, vide minute-book of tno Society.—Yours, etc., S. C. FARE, Twenty-two years Sec. and Treas. Christoburch. May 9th. [Dr. C. Morton Anderson writes to tho same effect.—Ed. "Tho Press."!