THE FISHING SEASON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1227, 8 September 1911, Page 4

THE FISHING SEASON.

MEETING OF WELLINGTON ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. At Hio ordinary nionUily meeting of the council of (iio Wellington Acclimatisation Societv held on Wednesday evening I.Mr. L. O.'H. Tripp in the chair), <i loiter was received from Taihape f-taf in-„' Mini, n siibeonuiiiUee, under tlio control of tlie soeioty, was now licinp funned. This makes the eighth local branch at piw.nl: con-' stitutcd in the 'Wellington Society's district. In view of the approaching fishing mron, (he following rivers and streams, with their tributaries, were closed to "ll lines or baits, oxr-opt arlificial lly or artificial minnows:—The Wninui-o-mnta, the Waimii tributaries of the Whnl;alil;i, the I'orirua, the South Karori, the Miingnron, (he Kaiwarrn (all in the Unit County), the Mnngaonc, the llnngatnrera, the Wai toliu, the Waikawa (Wairnrapa), the Makaretu, the Makahiki (tributaries of the Ohau), the Tirilea, tlio Kahularawa, tho Tnkomaru (Palmerston Noith), the Makakahi (from its source to the bridge at Newman (Ekctahuna County). Tho chairman stated that.five societies had applied for rod (leer, and orders for over 200 pheasants for 1012 had been received. The curator of the society's fish hatchery at Maslorton reported that 200,000 rainbow trout ova and r-25,000 brown had been put down for hatching, and 180,000 brown were exnected daily from Waco. The former were doing very well, and ho was preparing to fill orders from Ilawke's Bav and Fciiding. The Director of tlie Royal Geological Society of New South Wales wrote paying the question of suitable birds for New Zealand would be considered by a committee of experts. The curator of tho society's game farm and deer park at Paraparaumu. reporting upon the progress of tlio Warnhnm Court (Sussex) deer, said tlio imported animals were doing well, but a crossbred stag from Wairarapa and "Warnhani strains was a finer animal in every respect.