ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Invercargill, May 19. At the annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society it was reported that fully 85,000 healthy young salmon had been liberated in the tributaries of the Aparima out of the Southland portion of the last shipment of ova. Half the Government vote of £SO bad been expended in destroying shags, which were muffi reduced, though still numerous. It was stated that the trout found their way into the river from the tributaries stocked by private bmdowners ; but the Government so far had declined to allow them to be fished for, fearing as a result the destruction of salmon. The reported acclimatisation of opossums has been a great success. r J he numbers have largely increased since their protection by law. It rnav be mentioned that the skins of the New Zealand opossums were greatly superior to the original stook, the dark-skinned Tasmanian variety,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 951, 23 May 1890, Page 30
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