ACCLIMATISATION AFFAIRS
, MONTHLY MEETING OF COUNCIL Mr S. F. Aburn was in the chair at the meeting of the council of . the Acclimatisation Society , last . night. Reports of the Game, Angling, .Game Research, and Finance; Committees were read and adopted. ■ ■: A result of the work of the Game Research Committee was given with the ,estimate of the ducks in Otago district. This amounted to 35,000 ducks, and it was emphasised that this number was not complete, a largo number of small creeks and ponds not being covered. , A recommendation that no open season for the shooting of opossums should be held this year was forwarded to the Department of Internal Affairs in answer to a communication from it. The secretary of the Southland Society advised that’his council had decided on the same recommendation.
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Evening Star, Issue 23563, 30 April 1940, Page 10
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133ACCLIMATISATION AFFAIRS Evening Star, Issue 23563, 30 April 1940, Page 10
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