ACCLIMATISATION WORK
PROGRESS IN TAURANGA GOOD SEASON EXPECTED [by telegraph—own correspondent] TAURANGA, Saturday The work of the Tauranga Acclimatisation Society during the past year was reviewed at the annual meeting of the society. Mr. 11. Cuff presided. The income for the year was £470, and expenditure £3ll. Tho credft balance was £159. Two hundred • and thirty-eight pheasants were liberated during tho year, bringing the total liberations for the past 10 years to 2668. Eighty of tho pheasants liberated during the year were purchased from the Christchurch society. They were splendid birds, it was stated. The introduction of birds from Christchurch, it was thought, would greatlv improve the local strain. Tho society had ordered 200 birds this year, but owing to losses during tho breeding season, tho Christchurch society could promise only 70 birds. A total of 342 gamo licences were issued last season.
Tho prospects for tho coming season were reported to bo good. Young birds were reported to be plentiful, strong, and well grown as a result of tho dry breeding season. Fifty thousand trout fry wero liberated in the Tauranga and Katikati streams in tho past year. Fishing licences brought in £3B. as compared with £25 last season. Native birds wero stated to bo oil tho increase in tho district. Many peoplo had reported an increase in tho number of tuis. Pigeons were also reported to bo plentiful in bush areas. Officers were elected as follows: —President, Mr. H. Cuff; vice-presidents, Messrs. T. H. Hall, A. C. Hardy, J. Brown; council, Messrs. Tanner, Walker. Pilcher, Snodgrass, Olding, Cruickshank, George, Prior, Mowat. . The society, it was stated, was endeavouring to get brown trout ova hfttehpd in tho Government hatcheries for the purpose of stocking local streams. The society had tried planting eyed ova, but the beds of tho streams wero not suitable for this method, and an endeavour was being made to stock the streams with brown trout fry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 16
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