ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 11893, 22 May 1903, Page 6

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The monthly meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society was held this afternoon, and attended by Messrs A. C. Begg (chairman), S. M'Donald, J. Sinclair Thomson, R. T. Wheeler, R. Forrest, A. E. Farquhar, A. C. Stronach, and R. Chisholm. Mr F. Deans, in his monthly report, stated that the number of pva obtained lrom three varieties' of fish at the Clinton ponds were 100,000—namelv, Lo< hj Lev p Sy.O 0. Stotch burn 34,000, "fontinalis 16,000. At Opoho several oi the ponds hid o en emptied and cleaned, the result of the stripping being 27,000 fontinalis and 16,000 Loch Leven trout ova. It was pleasing to state that during their operations they had not seen anv fish showing symptoms of the disease which recently attacked the young nalmon and a few specimens of other varieties.—The report was adopted. The secretary reported that Mr A. Bathgate's brother in Calcutta had forwarded four barking deer and some pheasants to tie society.—lt was resolved to thank Mr Bathgate for his efforts in the interest* of the society. Mr S. Geonre Littledale, of England, wrote from Christchurch that big game was rapidly becoming exterminated in all parts of the world, and if New Zealand were seriously to lay herself out to aclimatiso suitable animals she would have a mine of wealth the value of which would be difficult to overestimate. There was one thing in which New Zealand s f ood p-e-em'nMit", and that was the size and grandeur of her heads. In order to reap the iml advamage of that it was necessary that all poatMng should be sternly repressed. His wife and himself had been attracted to New Zealand solely by the deer, and had the sport been better they would probably have returned. The letter concluded with several suggestions on the matter.

The annual meetins of the society was fixed for this day week.