ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 7226, 31 May 1887, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of members of the Acclimatisation Society of Otago was held this afternoon, when there wero about a dozen members present. The chair was taken by Mr J. P. Maitland. The annual report, as published, was read. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the fish-raising depot at Clinton had been rendered as efficient as was possible, and that shortly there would be no place to equal it in the Southern Hemisphere. The Society had 270,000 young salmon or salmon ova, on hand now, according to Mr Deans's report; and a quantity of the young smolt were liberated today. Ranger Burt reported that he had 60,000 Loch Leven trout ova in hand now, and had several fish yet to strip, so that the Socioty might reckon on shortly having 100,000 of this ova. Looking at the magnitude *of the Society's transactions, he thought it became a question whether the Government should not grant them some slight pecuniary assistance, the question of the introduction of salmon and trout being really a national one. With regard to the other branches of the Society's operations, there was, like last year, little to report. The only importations consisted of a few robins and Mr Begg's frogs—the rabbits, and the consequent necessary poison, forbidding the Society's making other importations. The Rev. Mr tVaddell—who took great interest in the Society's work, but who was unable to be present to-day owing to illhealth—had written saying that while at Home he had several interviews with Mr Bartlett, superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, and that gentleman had promised to assist the Society in every way in his Eower. The report of the treasurer (Mr A. C egg) showed that the Society's annual expenditure was within a few shillings of its income—it was, therefore, so to say, on the very brink of the income, and therefore if they increased their expenditure the Society would begin to go back, or members would have to put their hands in their pockets to keep it going. Mr Bego Becondcd the motion for the adoption of the report, which was carried nem. con.

(Left sitting.)

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