ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1919, Page 10

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Mr.. E. J. C. Wiffen presided over a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society held last evening. One hundred brace of pheasanis have been ordered from Canterbury, and will be delivered in March and April of next year These birds will be liberated before the shooting season.

It was decided to obtain from Mr. C. J. Lucas's red deer herd, Horsham, Sussex, two two-year-old red deer stags, and two yearling hinds, about the middle of September, 1920. The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society advised that it had ordered twenty brace of Canadian geese from Vancouver. , The Wellington Society's quota would be forwarded when the hinds came to hand

Mr. A. Le Souef, director of the Roj'al Zoological Society, Taronga Park, New South Wales, wrote, asking for details regarding the destruction of penguins on the islands south of New Zealand. Mr. C. I. Dasent said that he had replied to the gentleman, stating that the information he desired would be forwarded as soon as-possible. He had suggested that the Commonwealth Government should communicate with the New Zealand Government on the subject, and that an agreement should be asked, for, providing for warships patrolling the southern islands and reporting on the situation front time to time.