ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES’ CONFERENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 10

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES’ CONFERENCE.

[Per Press Association’.] WELLINGTON, July IS. A deputation from the Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference waited on members of the Ministry for the purpose of presenting resolutions passed at tho Conference the previous day. Sir Joseph Ward said ho was personally in sympathy with the desiro to conserve game from unsportsmanlike destruction. He would do his best to have tho recommendations of the Conference carried into effect. The Hon J. A. Millar said he had not heal'd anything about the destruction of whitebait in the rivers, and would have to make inquiries before the supply to the public could bo checked If it was practicable to introduce haddock and herring to New Zealand waters, he would place a sum on the Estimates to meet the cost. Ho would ask for a sum this year for tho purpose of getting Atlantic salmon.