LAKE ELLESMERE RECLAMATION

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 7

LAKE ELLESMERE RECLAMATION

Concern Expressed By Society

“We do not want to see any! part of Lake Ellesmere go: the; council holds the view that it; contains the largest stock of wild! ! fowl and the largest stock ofi 'brown trout in the country." said; ■Dr. D McK. Dickson, a member! [of the council of the North Can-! !terbury Acclimatisation Society at. I its annual meeting last evening.j ; “The matter has been taken up; in the proper quarters.” said Dr.j ! Dickson, in leply to a question; from a member on the views of the council on the proposals involving some miles of the lake's foreshore and about 6000 acres of duck habitat that provides shooting for a large number of sportsmen. A sub-committee of the council has been appointed “to watch developments and act in whatever way might be consid-. ered expedient.” The report on the question said there was ‘probably no body of water in the Southern Hemisphere that harboured such a variety of bird life, migrating birds, sea birds, and game birds.” “From the fisheries point of view, it is a life-blood of all

I streams flowing into it. and any} interference with the vital feed- 1 ling areas oh the margin of the; lake must have a detrimental effect on our fish stock. “We have taken steps to bring i all the above information to the' notice of those in authority, and} although we agree that primary production is essential to the! country, so is recreation to the; fast-growing population.” the re-} port said. “Talking Clock” on Strike.— Even the “talking clock” in Pans! was on strike today Civil ser- i vants in charge of the clock— : which announces the time to J people dialling its telephone num- ‘ ber—had joined the nation-wide; 24-hour civil servants’ strike.— j Paris, November 19.