AUCKLAND ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10130, 13 May 1896, Page 3

AUCKLAND ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The usual monthly meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society took place yesterday afternoon. Present; Messrs. H. Bull (in the chair), A. C. Whitney, Younghusband, and C. S. Gillies. Railway Freight.—'The general manager of the New Zealand Railway Department wrote to the secretary stating that in reference to his application in a former letter, food for the fish hatcheries at Te Rau would be ccarried free. New Acclimatisation Society.—'The Un-der-Secretary of the Colonial Secretary's Department wrote to the secretary stating that lie has been requested to inform the Society that the Whangaroa Acclimatization Society has been registered, and that the Governor had been advised to direot that the fees received for licenses, etc., issued in the Auckland District, consisting of the Counties of Whangarei, Hobson, and Otamatea, shall be paid to that Society. The Government hoped that the two societies (Auckland and Whangaroa) might co-operate in extending the useful work with the same good results as had attended the division of districts in other parts of the colony. A good deal of discussion ensued. It was resolved. that the secretary write to the Colonial Secretary to the effect that the division of the Auckland district into a number of societies would work injuriously for the cause of acclimatisation, inasmuch as the working of such establishment as fish hatcheries involved large expense, which any small society could not | bear. In addition it would be hard upon i sportsmen who would have < to take out a license for each smaller district, ahe Society were of opinion that some proportion of the I license fees collected by the new district j should be granted to the parent Society as a contribution towards the expense of maintaining its hatcheries. ' CORRESFONDENCE.-Letter from Inspector ' Hicksou re a' conviction obtained for a breach of the Act, by Constable D&Vfiy, at Northern Wairoa. It was agreed to refer the matter to the new district in which the offence was committed. Constable Davey wrote that numbers of persons had been shooting without having taken out a license. Curator's Report.— curator s report for the month of April was read. Three thousand rainbow trout had been attributed in the head waters and tributaries of the Waipa;.2ooQ at Otorohaugu, and 1000 at Kuiti. Owing to a heavy downpour_ there, had been threatened damage to the hatcheries, but preventive measures had proved Successful. It had been requisite to get a thousand feet of timber to construct fluming to carry off the storm water.