FISH HATCHERIES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 6

FISH HATCHERIES

IMPROVEMENTS AT MASTERTON OPENING ON SATURDAY Masterton, September 3. Officials of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society will gather on Saturday afternoon at the fish hatcheries in Pownall Street, where extensive improvements have been effected to the building and plant, and the opening ceremony will be performed. A “Dominion” representative who visited the hatcheries this morning was shown the work that has been carried out. The former building has been extended to twice its size, at a cost of about £7OO, while another £3OO has been expended in new equipment and containing ponds. The result has. been to improve considerably the facilities for the hatching of trout. Hitherto work has itecn carried out there under difficulties, one million and a half of trout being dealt with last season when there was accommodation for only one million. The extra facilities now provided will enable the hatcheries .to cater with more ease for the increasing demands of anglers in the Wellington Province, and it is expected that two and a quarter million trout will be handled this season. Already half the season’s output is being dealt with,, the provision that has been made of two extra ponds-for yearlings enabling the whole to be handled more expeditiously. The opening ceremony on Saturday will be performed by Mr. L. O. H. Tripp, of Wellington, president, of the ■Wellington Acclimatisation Society.