THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1854, 3 June 1887, Page 12

THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

The following is the return asked for by Mr Barron which, has been recently laid upon the in table of the House. It stows the expenditure' the years 1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1886, and 1887, on account of salaries and allowances to Governor and maintenance of Government houses, salaries of Cabinet Ministers, travelling and other expenses of such Ministers, maintaining the Ministerial residences, the Legislative Council, the House of Representatives, and each department of the Colonial Government of New Zealand, chargeable on the ordinary revenue of the colony. The figures for the more recent years only are given below : —

ACCLIMATISATION SoSeTT. The annual general meeting of the Otago j climatisation Society was held in the Land Bq office oii Tuesday afternoon. Mr J. P. MaitU presided,, arid there were present— Messrs Wilkie (hon.'sec.),^.' C: Begg '(hori.'treas.), Deans (manager), J. R.;Sinclairf F. R. Chapr^ N. Y. A. Wales, W. Carlton, R. Chisholm, p, Stoddart, J. R. Danson, G. M. Thomson, \f.| Smith, W. Shennan, and Clifford. The annual report, already published, > taken as read.

The. Chairman in moviag its adoption stat that as a whole their efforts during thepast j a though restricted to piseicultural work, had fy eminently ■successful:^ Their ponds at Clint had now been made very l complete, and if ft made a few' more improvements they w« soon be superior to anything of the kind in ( Southern Hemisphere; The water supply * excellent and had quite come, up ,-to their < p.ectations. At the - present, time .they h between the two places' 280,000 ]salmon> number they had never approached, before, t which was. likely to assure success if suco was possible. The first of the large salmon w, to be liberated from the ponds that day. (jj sidering the great expense they, had been to connection with the rearing of these fish, it* a matter for consideration whether they shot not apply .to the. Government for soi assistance. Besides the salmon they had not <good number of Loch Leven trout and Ams. can brook trout. These fish would do well some rivers .where the ordinary trout did i succeed very well, and there was a likelihood them becoming numerous in many of j streams where the ordinary trout could not < spawning beds. In other departments t society had not done very much. All they I done in fact was to acclimatise, a few robim, and Mr Begg's frogs. -. Ho regretted that tin could not do more in the direction of acclimati ing birds owing to the universal poisoning rabbits. The Rev. Mr Waddell, who.took g?e interest in this part of their work,' had when Home made inquiries regarding the introduce of snipe and plover, and had succeeded in ops ing up relations with the curator, of the Lond« Zoological Gardens, who would assist the socigh in the importation of any such game froi Home. Mr A. C, Begg had drawn attentions the fact that their annual expenditure camejnjj up to the brink of their income. Thus if thn were to spend any extra money on the introdn^ tion of ova, &c., the members of the society would have to make up their minds to put ties hands in their pockets or to get some assistant* from the public ; , otherwise they would bj doing wrong in getting into debt. Mr Danson asked if anything had been do« by way of getting revenue from licenses for ftt sale of hares. ■ - - The Chairman explained ■ that the present license for the sale of game was. £s, which wu prohibitive. The consequence was that only j few hares were sent to our market. from Canterbury, and these were generally sold on tht quiet. He had suggested the reduction of the license fee to £2, and had put the matter in tie hands of Mr Scobie Mackenzie. From the tun things had taken at . Wellington he did not anticipate that anything would be done in the matter, for some time at ' all events. The; might get another item of revenue from licensa for fishing in the harbour, as suggested by Mi Thomson. Mr Begg secqaded the report. He said thii though the society had not made very mud noise about it, they had during the past yen done more real work than had been done in si i the previous years put together with regard to ' fresh-water fish, and fishermen would be pleased to note that there would now be a variety ol fish in their rivers. They were now in a position to keep young salmon for 18 months or two years, and that, he had no doubt, would ensure i their successfnl acclimatisation. They had the i finest rivers in the Southern Hemisphere, and 'A they Succeeded in stocking them with salmoi . they would be conferring a benefit that future generations would thank them for. - Mr Chapman made reference to Mr Waddell'i letter. He thought the matter referred to should receive the attention of the society at as early date. A great many people in this countij were fond of shooting, but there were only verj few places in Otago where shooting could be had He suggested that they should experiment with birds that would do on marshy grouud. Mr Clifford said they were making a graud mistake in keeping the salmon in confinement They had done the same thing with the brook trout last year, and had in consequence lost2o per cent. Artificial feeding he was sure caused many deaths among" the salmon ; and moreover, while they were kept in ponds'they were learning all the time to disregard danger. He did not object, to keeping a few in the ponds, but in keeping so many he thought' they were acting with the greatest folly. He also thought it wu a mistake to liberate the fish in the Waiwen, because they would not care to come back from the sea through the, dirty waters of the Moly neux.

Mr Oari/ton said he agreed with the last speaker that the young fish should be turned out at once. He hoped the society would not sell any of the brook or Loch Leven trout, co that they would have a good stock for themselves.

Mr Stoddart also thought the salmon should be liberated as soon as the smolt scales appeared. He thought the Molyneux was t splendid river for the salmon. The report and balance sheet were unanimously adopted. On the motion, of Mr Cablton, seconded by Mr Cuisholm, it was decided: to. close the financial year on March 31 instead of December) and to hold the annual meeting in May. Office-bearers for the ensuing year were reelected as follows : — Chairman, Mr J. P. M»it" land ; vice-chairman, Mr A. C. JRegg ; couhcjlMessrs :E: E. 1 J. Spence, W. Cuningham Smith, Thos. Brydone, P. F. Stoddart. F. R. Chapman, P. C. Neill, R. Campbell, J. T. Mackerras, J. B, Danspn, R. Chieholm, N. Y. A. Wales, G. H, Thomson, F.L.S-, J. R. Sinclair, Alex. Wilson, M.A., W. Carlton.Rev. R. WaddeU,M.A.; country committee— Messrs James Fulton, M.H.R., John Shaw, W. S." Pillans, B. Fullarton, J. B. Mitchell, John Strauchon, W. Shennan, James Arkle, W. Quin, A. D. .Bell, W. R. ThornMH John Allan ; hon. treasurer, Mr A. C. Beggi hon. secretary, Mr James Wflkie.

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