PHEASANT BREEDING

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 6

PHEASANT BREEDING

Paraparaumu Game Farm SUCCESSFUL SEASON A very successful season for the breeding of pheasants has been experienced this year by the Wellington Acclimatization Society at its longestablished game farm at Paraparaumu. The pens at the farm today contain several hundred healthy birds which have passed the chick stage. The curator of the farm, Mr. E. G. Trask, is delighted with the fertility of a very large proportion of eggs he set in the incubators for hatching, and says that results have exceeded - all previous sanguinary expectations. Great success has also been achieved at the farm in the breeding of poultry, from the sale of which* the society obtains additional revenue for the maintenance of its fish and game territories. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, paid a visit to the game farm during the weekend, accompanied by Mr. D. J. Gibbs and Mr. E. J. C. Wiffin, president and secretary respectively of the Wellington Acclimatization Society. Giving yesterday his impressions of the farm and its work, Mr. Parry said much had been attempted and 1 much had been achieved by the society. There was no doubt this season the breeding of pheasants had been very successful at the farm, and its staff deserved credit for their work. “The stocking of the territories with voung birds,” the Minister said, “is an important feature of the sport and the maintenance of its high standard, aud this feature the Wellington society, with initiative and good judgment, keeps in the forefront of its operations.”