ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 218, 9 June 1921, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

A council meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society was held last night, Mr. E. J. C. Wiffin presiding. It was decided not to reconsider the question of obtaining pheasants from the Auckland society’s game farm at Cambridge. The Auckland association wrote, mentioning that they considered the Cambridge site a suitable one, and stating that when tho 'Wellington ranger, visited tho farm the birds were in a miserable condition owing to lack of meat food.

Tho Feilding Society requested that they should be supplied with eight deer calves, four of each sox. The request was granted, and it was decided to supply any other requests that might be forthcoming from other societies. The ranger reported that at the beginning of May ducks were plentiful on the lakes in the Manawatu and Horowhenun. districts. The best bags were reported as follow:—J. M'Kelvie and party of seven. 150 ducks, 20 swans: party of three, 60 ducks; party of three, 45 ducks. He saw only a few deer, about a dozen hinds and a few stags, with very poor heads, were seen on tho Stony Creek station. Most of the deer have been shot or driven back 1 into the Haurangi reserve. Browsing stags of eight or ton points have been seen in the Torn and White Hock stations. The upper reaches of the Waiapu are carrying a groat number of small trout. The following rommitteos were elected: — Fish: Messrs. 11. A. Holmes, C. J. C. Wiffin. F. Whitley, F. Dyer. E. Seed. J. Fleming. Gaine: Messrs. S. (I. Nathan, Lyall-Powell. C. J. C. Wiffin, L. O. H. Tripp. F. Dyer, and J. Fleming. A recommendation from the annual meeting that four general meetings and a smoke concert should be held annually was not passed. ft was suggested that: members should be allowed to attend tho council meetings, but It was pointed out. that much of the business transacted was of n private nature. At the beginning of the year the council set out with a definite policy to cover the whole year, and there would be no reports, etc. to place before a quarterly meeting.