Acclimatisation Matters.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 868, 7 September 1917, Page 2

Acclimatisation Matters.

The secretary of the Kawhia Rod and Gun Club has received, among other communicatons, the appended from the Auckland Acclmatisation Society. As the matters are of public interest, members should attend, or forward their views to, the ordinary meeting to be held in Kawhia on the 22nd inst., when the questions referred to will be dealt with. Fish Fry. “As the time is now very near when it will be necessary to allocate any rainbow fry your Society may require, I am directed to ask that you will kindly send the names of the streams or localities which it may be desirable to stock, with the number of fry required for each —letting me know the result in, say, a week from receipt of this letter, so that I can call a meeting thereupon and get the allocations made. Also lam directed to ask that your Society will kindly make suggestions as to what streams or parts of them it is desirable to retain as fry areas, seeing that any action thereupon will require to be taken as soon as possiblto be ready for the opening of the season. Herewith I send you a copy of the district boundaries [Kawhia District comprises the whole of Kawhia County] which, after due consideration of all the lettters received and available information the Council of this Society has defined ; by which you will be able to decide upon the above matters.” Extermination of Hawks. “At the last meeting of the Council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, it was brought under their notice by the representative of the Putaruru Acclimatisation and Game Conservation Society (Mr E. C. Clarke) that aw the parent Society was for the present unable to carry on the war against hawks owing to depletion of its funds, his Society was willing to take up the matter; as he had no doubt other such u odies would also do if it were suitably placed before them. The amount spent by this Society has been well on towards £400; and that is far more-considering the time over which payments have extended —than the Society’s annual revenue will stand, more especially, as we bad prepared for a large breeding season at our game farm, and to spend more money at this time would only cripple this project. However, so good a start having been made, it seems a pity if it has to be discontinued for long; and if your club or Society can see its way to take up a subscription or adopt other available means of raising a limited amount to continue thia effort in its own district—each body collecting and paying for beaks in accordance with some general agreement with the others —1 have no doubt that in due course a systematic method can be evolved by which hawk-de-struction can be indefinitely continued without undue pressure falling on the funds either of the parent Society or its branches.”