ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 6

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

WELLINGTON COUNCIL MEETS. A. meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society was held last night, Mr. E. F. C. AViffin presiding. The ranger reported that the deer at the Paraparaurau game farm, were looking well. Tho ranger added that he had liberated 500 yearling trout in the mouth of the Belmont stream and*in the Hutt River between Belmont and Haywards, and another 50(1 in the Hutt River between Miingaroa stream and Maymorn tram bridge. Five hundred yearlings had also been liberated in the Porirua stream between Johnsonville and Tawa Flat. In addition, 60,000 brown fry had been liberated in the Hutt River. The total fry and yearlings liberated this season were as ’ follows :-AHutt River, 140,000 brown fry, brown yearlings 1000; Akatarawa, 16,000 brown fry, 15,000 rainbow fry; Martin’s River, 15,000 brown fry; Porirua stream, 500 ' brown yearlings; AA’ainui, 15,000 brown fry, 300 brown yearlings. The ranger mentioned, that the rivers had 'been in splendid order for liberating, and the fish had been received in tip-top condition. Tho Auckland Society wrote mentioning that they wore now paying sixpence per pair for hawks’ feet, and expressed the hope that n uniform scale would be adopted throughout New Zealand of paying for feet only. Several societies had already agreed to this, and were paying sixpence per pair for feet. It was decided to continue paying threepence per pair of feet. Tho Department ,of Internal Affairs advised that tho High Commissioner had cabled that it would be unwise for the society to make arrangements to have two "liTnus and two stags shipped from Tendon -owing fo frequent, outbreaks of foot and mouth disease. The High Commissioner suggested that the animals should be shipped from Liverpool. This would mean an increased cost of about .MO, making the approximate total cost, including tho deer, .£205. It was decided that all the arrangements for the importation of the deer should be cancelled indefinitely. It was mentioned that the rainbow trout ova supplied by the Otago Society had turned out very successfully, and that the fry were very good. The eggs were hatching out well. A grant of -£lO was made to the fundr of tho AVairorapa North Committee. The curator of the Masterton hatchery reported that the first lot of rainbow trout had hatched out very vigorous fish, and that ho expected the remainder to do likewise. \