ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3760, 7 September 1869, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

A. meeting of this i*'ooiety wa* held yesterday morning, at their rooms, Fort street. The following gentlemen wpre present :— Messrs T. B. Gillies, T, B. Hill, T. Kirk, and J, T. Mackelvie. Mr. Gillies was voted to the chair; and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. A vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. Mackelvie, and seconded by Mr. Hill, was passed to Messrs. Laid]ey, Ireland, and Co., of Sydney, for their kindness and liberality in transhipping the moreporka to England. Pbbasants.— The meeting reso'ved to apnly to Government for permission to Baare pheasants at Helensville, for aoolimatiaafcion purposes in the Upper Wairoa.—A letter was read from the Southlaud Acclimatisation Sooiety, applying for pheasants or California quail. The Seoret try was ordered to send all the California quail in stock. Salmon Ova. — The Seoretary was ordered to acknowledge a letter from Mr. Bust, relative to the importation of the salmon ova from San Francisco. Surplus Bantam Fowls.-— It was ordered tbat the surplus Vantam fowls be sold by auction. Half-yeakly v v UBSORiFrroar.~Mr, Maokelvie pro* posed that half-yearly subscriptions be received, Seconder! by M*. Htll and carried. > Opening op the Garden. — A resolution was come to thai; the gordeu should ' be opec to the 'general public from 2 o'clock on Sunday aftfruoon, instead of the entire day. Members who mi^ht des re admission in the morning to do so by means of a ! p»ss-key. , • Australia'}* 1 Quail and Kiwi.— Purchases ol Australian quail and kiwi hy the Secietary were ajproved of. ; Donation of Nativk Plants' — A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Craig, for that get t'eman's dono!tion of native plants. No other business was faroight befoie the meeting.

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