SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 9

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.

•-■•■■.■■."-•,; ;TEOPT. OVA.'.FOE'INDIAV .;,.■ ■ ■'. / ; , ■'. -'.[By-■Tolcirepii.-Snocial Cotroipoodcnt.i ■,'■,''.: : . ',*V. ','"! ..-'Auckland,',December 9. ■'■ .A. Truest to- convey'tho "thanks of: all. good sportsmen 'in Southern. India to tho: officers of the.Auckland Acclimatisation. Society.for their. tjelp in introducing rainbow trout into; Southern'lndia,' has been received by his Excellency Lord, Hunket. from; Sir Arthur.Law-ley, Governor of". Madras. -.■ Tho . achievement,-.'-'which. dreWjfortli. the iiiany expressions.. uoniin-Sir Arthur's letter, •consisted ' <of the successful; consignment of 50,000 eggs, through' tropical eeaS: and ; over. a route which necessitated transhipments at ■ Sydney, and Bombay,with; the'remarkably small, loss.or less than 10per cent.'- Some' interest -'attache's to. tho'ciP cumstances' which j brought Sir Arthur and his fellow, sportsmen into, touch., with .the: enthusiasts- WHO; fulfilled their wishes eo.-willingly and ;.'.Several< months -. ago' :tho former .came to the!conclusion .that a .large .number -of -the.;streams'in: tho NeMiH,Hilis, Southerft India)'were' of sumcic'nt'.nltitu'de and of sufficiently- cool-climat«; to offer a sporting chance of.'tho'\subOßSsful establishment of trout-i .fishing. Forthwith-they.'communicated'' toV.tno. Now.:booth' AValci Government ,a request;for a' supply of.trout,,but/theTcply went back that although', good progress was- .behig'. made iu stocking, the; of; Australian :Alps. they wero' riot'in a position i'o'sond ova to India. : "Jtako.Application to tho ; Auckland Ac-; -ilimatisation "Society,-, which was'-the first to introduce;-rainbow, trout -■ in'.q ' tho Sonthern Hemisphere/v was'v the : corioluding ; . cdyica". , of the New 'South OVales'Governnientj and the disciples of Izaay.'Wnltdn ,iu India toot that.ndvicpby arranging'wifh' thoNew South Wale's Government to. cuter into negotiations with'tlio Auckland Society/on, their behalf..:.■ Recognising that the great deal' of interest; the offico.rs/Ofitlie'.local.societyrose '? fl>o B ol by-:irinkmj a' careful selection of oO.OCO eggs front-tKo,j-doicty's : hatchery near Okoroire, -and also t'SJfng- special .atbiition to packmg; but the most .interesting;'problem'■ of I all that. called', for solution , was' how to retard .tho.'dov.clopracnV ,of' the , ;eggs durini*. tho . voyagc., o jThis, obstacle .proved quite- sunnount-' able,. hpjvevj>r,.,inasmuch ns itho cojisignment" was placed : iri- the .cool..chamber of tho Syd--•psrahrjOi-iittie'.'; above freezing ' point.- Itwould, ha/dly.'do,.tb,Vfrecze:,the: egffs- in their e W^y. o ,^stiitb,, and:' tlieso ; instructions WCTe adher.ed,tp: on; th.6' yoyago ..between" Sydnoy■ and, Colombo,,-. The ■rer..ult. i of., the:experimen t has .received.eloquent:;testimony :ia the letter already .referred Uka ;\ r ■■•;■:/ '..'.. :■•;;,,--