MASTERTON HATCHERY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 120, 14 February 1935, Page 11

MASTERTON HATCHERY

Game Farm to be Formed

Support was given by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night to tin? recommendation of the executive and finance committee that a game farm be established at the Masterton hatchery immediately. Mr. J. G. Miller, the curator, is to be appointed officer in charge, and Mr. Trask is to carry out the raising of the game. It was also recommended that the future control of the hatchery and game farm be vested in the executive and finance committee. The opinion that the establishment of a modern game farm was a good business venture was expressed by Mr. R. H. Nimmo. If things went as was anticipat.’d, it would not be a question or spending more money but ot spending less. If the farm were properly conducted it would be the chief breeding centre of the North Island. It should be the aim of the society to raise at least 1000 pheasants in the first year. Mr. A. Seed said the committee had considered the question exhaustively, and the proposals were within the limits ot what had been spent in past years. _ The chairman, Dr. G. F. V. Anson, said he hoped Masterton people would realise that the farm would not be confined to pheasants.