MEETINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 8

MEETINGS

COBDEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the Cobden ■School Committee was..held last evening. Present: Messrs J. Mead (Chairman), Gunn (Secretary), Scorgie, and Taylor, Mesdames Gilmour and Sexton. Apologies for abseiipe were received from ‘ Messrs C. Orams and L. Jarden. The Canterbury School Committees Association wr.ote asking for information for submitting to the Minister on his visit to Christchurch on December 6. —No action taken. Mr A. H. McKane wrote enclosing copy of letter he had forwarded to the Canterbury. Education Board. —Reply left to Secretary.

After some discussion it was decided to have two notice boards erected warning that trespassers after school hours would be prosecuted. The Headmaster’s, report was read and received and it was decided to hold the breaking-up concert and prize-giving on the evening of Wednesday December 18, school breaking up the following day. Considerable discussion regarding a district picnic took place and it was decided to call -a public meeting on Thursday evening in the gymnasium. ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. A meeting of the Grey Acclimatisation Society was held at the old Boys’ Rooms last evening. M” p . Beck presided, and the following members were present: Messrs H. Bringezti. Holmes, Holmes Jr.. Heinz, I. Bennington, Nimmo, Hill, and J. Stubbs (Secretary). . A letter was received from the Minister of Internal Affairs asking for any recommendations tor alteration of opossum regulations. On the motion of Mr Beck it was decided to ask that all persons with registered orchards send in a return monthly of the number of opossums trapped and that other remits from the Society had been sent forward from the conference recently held in Wellington. The Secretary reported that 500,000 fry had been liberated in the different streams in the last two months. The hatchery arrangements with the Westland Society were giving every satisfaction.

A letter from the Department of Internal Affairs asked what the Grey Society were doing regarding the destruction of deer. It was decided to write, stating that as soon as the warrant was issued declaring them a pest in the district, as requested, the Society intends offering 2/- for tails and employing men to shoot deer at sight. .The opinion was expressed that they should be destroyed before they became the menace they were in some districts, especially South Westland. The Secretary was instructed to write the Canterbury Society asking if they can supply yearlings of rainbow trout next season and price per thousand for liberating in the Crooked River, and that next season a proper tion of fry should be hatched for liberating there. Arrangements are being made to get a track cut to the Orangipuki upper reaches, and a trip will be made there shortly in the New Year to inspect the spawning beds, and a further trip during the spawning season.

A full list of license holders is now being prepared for circulation among members of the council and country police stations.