ANGLINS AND GAME

Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 9

ANGLINS AND GAME

ACCLIMATISATION COUNCIL MEETS. Mr C. P. Mi. Lutterworth presided over the monthly meeting of tlie council of the Otago "Acclimatisation Society • last evening, others present being— Messrs Long, Wilson, Held, Howes, 1 Turner, Hutchison, Aburn, Conn. Baker, Cowic, Hodgson, Stewart. , Holmes, and "Whitei Among the matters discussed m tlu I report of the Angling. Committee wen 'that the Ballarat Society had reduced its ova to 25,000 rainbow trout; tliai the committee had responded to the Tourist Department’s request lor a report on the trout streams; and tnal tire hatchery was improved in conditio) and progressing well. The report, which was adopted, recommended the laying down later of a filter bed at the Clinton hatchery to purify the ingoing water. Messrs Claringbold and Duncan were to go to Timaru Creek to I collect rainbow trout eggs. In regard to the killing of deer, reported the Game Committee,, suggested amondihents to the Animals’ Protection Act would be considered - by the. president. The committee had received a I letter from, the Department of AgriculItnrc stilting that the removal of weasels, and ferrets, oven in forest areas, could not be recommended. Pending Mr Stead’s return from England, Mr H. L. Tripp , had reported, further consideration of the proposed ! importation of game birds had been • held over. Landholders at Waipiata and Gimmerhurn had complained of the depredations by pukeho. The committee thought the large number of birds was attributable to the brevity of the shooting season, which, it con- | sidered, should be extended to August. The petition of the landholders, it was recommended, should be forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, with a i request for the declaration of an open season in the middle of August. The report was adopted. Submitting figures regarding the quantity of ova and fry distributed find the ova sold from 1921 to 1925, the President expressed the opinion that the success of the society in the collection -of ova this year should result in a considerable reduction in the cost for 1,01)0.