NEW ROD AND GUN CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 8

NEW ROD AND GUN CLUB.

'•• FORMED "AT;, OHINRWAi; '•"""•■ [FROM OUR ovrs '* roimKSl'ON-DE>yT.] ' \ V.._.';,,; . : ■•>. - ~Ht;>ri ; i.Y, Monday. • *f.'HK question of forming a rod arid gun i :ktb lias fort some time exercise*! the winds of. sporting men resident in. the Ohinewai,, district, their object being to prevent, illicit shooting, to stock the river and lakes with suitable fish, to, protect the game already there, and to* go in for fur,ther liberation of suitable 'birds. ' On Saturday evening a large and' representa- ;..- five meeting was hold in the Ohinewai school, at which, in addition to local residents, there were present: Mr. \V. H. Hazard (.president), Messrs. iStayioltf, Noakes, Brigliam; and Phillipson (members of council),- reprinting the. Auck- ■ land Acclimatisation Society, together ■'. -with the president, .and committee of the Huittly Rod and Gun Club. ■-■>■, ' . Mr. J. S. Johnston, -who presided, .after having brie-fly outlined the object of the ' meeting, called , upon Mr. Hazard, who ■ ■.-: gave an excellent and interesting resume of .the past history o£. the work of the Auckland Society, and explained how their new rules' affected the country clubs anrliated. to the parent body. Mr.rOrav- * ; son. * also, addressed , the meeting »K C^: ii ] *'"y):,«ptained a how the : Htintly' Club, had. been formed •' ■ ••'-'•"•*; • A motion to «» effect that the Rod l*ndvGm,.Gub be, now formed; and .that it affiliate with the Auckland Society ; was carried unanimously : ' " '<?.! '.?■-"".■""■&? l to "? ,TO!^ on ' president, Mr. W H ; Hazard; president, Mr. Angus M&&& Foster, J. F. ffiJ T Sin 'a ' a? 1 "?* F^'