Otago Acclimatisation Society.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 5

Otago Acclimatisation Society.

At the monthly meeting of tin above, hold in Dunedin last week, tin following local business was transacted :

The Marine Department advise! that the season for netting and faking trout in Lake llawea would open on Ist November and close on 30th April. Thu committee recommended that Mr It. Parker, Pembroke, got (3,000 brown fry fora .-'ream on ids property, and that Mr I’. Vareoe, Cromwell, get ‘JO,OOO for the streams about Cromwell. Mr W. Foul, Pembroke, advised that IJ,OOO brown trout fry had been liberated in the IJpper JMutatapu Adopted,

The Came Committee recommended that Mr C. ILodgkinson, of llawea Flat, bo given an extension of time to the 30th December for culling. The committee had replied to Mr W. P. Cotter, llawea Flat, that pending (Jovernmnnt action placing opossums on a satisfactory basis the society did not feel justified in spending money in liberating. The committee made the following recommendations for the shooting season of 1930 ;—Mallard duck, three months from Ist May, limit 12 head per day; Californian quail, two months from Ist June, limit 30 head pc r day , native game, from Ist May to 31st July, limit 25 head per day, exclusive of black swan ; pukeko, three months from Ist May, limit 13 head per day ; paradise duck, one month from Ist May, limit 12 head per day.—The report was amended by altering the time for paradise ducks to two months, and by altering the time for pukeko to three months at Waihola and one month in ollurpaits, and with these alterations i ho report was adopted.

Mr W, Ford wrote that there are 15 boxes of fry in the Pembroke hatchery, making 135,000 brown and 90,000 rainbow. Some of the small streams that flow into VVanaka Lake are sometimes dry in the summer. Long Valley would be a safe stream, Timaru is the only other stream handy with water all the year round. There are one or two nice backwaters in the Hawea River for fry. The Department of inter nal Allairs, replying to the society, intimated that it was hoped to introduce next session an amendment of the _ Animals Pro tcction Act, dealing with the question of opossums and other matters relative to that Act,