OTAGO ANGLERS' ASSOCIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 32

OTAGO ANGLERS' ASSOCIA.

The fi ri l of a series of remiiusrert i.ignf'! was he'd by the Anglers' Association in tho E.x t en-ice' Court on Tuesd-.y evening, about iW members b?ins- present, with Mr K. Chishoim, president) in the chair. In opening the meet- j 2-ig the President expressed his gratification 1 j.t th" r" spouse msde to the invitation of the cxeru'.ne, "as evidenced by the very large p-.thprng. particulrrly in respect io country ii'cmb-'" As a matter of fact, the association ' w.is noip nrlebt^el to the country members "ti.a'i. perl-aus, wn3 generally reflbsetl. Not <mU c 1 t 1 c cou> try memberq muster well at ' their town gatheni:gf«, but they made their visits tv countn streams far more enjoyable than ; u'J be the ca-e without their as cisttn.ee a.d l.c = pral'ty. It was to them also they v.re 1 Mlobted to n prnrt exert for the exeellcht crntlilitn vi wl.it 'i tli'. iouncl the streams, ar.tl for the wav they looked aftT the fish and kept do".n poric'.p ° The r present gathering, he mgbt point out, \»-<"s imiquo in several rcl! ■"•• '=. i'or o: r thr «, it wn« nn orflrrs' co^:nl, vatk tho pc-'Uiur.n that tjUtrc Vifs 1.0 til

progiamine. It vrtii io ' ,i rc:niiu=cence rijh*. nnel these pre°O)it v. ii” supposed to lv • v brought with tlicni— each vrA every one v i»vic!ua!'> — a fith £ ( .crf. Ike one co'-dit 0.1 I tr-at every story was lo be a record of fact, v * 1 tho utual Vititudp al'owed to sngleri. 'J he spcuker tlicn swoko of t^c adiance made by the associat.on 1.1 membership =.iife its initiation in 1671. In the opening season tl'.cre were 37 hce\*e3 tal.en out, :n the year after 103 v ere issued, in 1834 the licenses numbered 337, 1.1 38S-1 they had increased to Gil, and 111 1O')3 the number taken out was P34 From the=o figures the anglers would see that they formed a" l>y no means unimportant section of the community , and in view of the fee's paid it coi'ld not bo gainsaid they were a great assistance and strength to tLo Acclimatisation boc.ety. Ho urged e\ery member, as a true angler, to reuder the society huther asoistance by doirg all thpy cou'd to cope with the poacher nuisance and to refrain from resortuig to questionable methods of fibbing with the idea that they weie more effective than rod and line. Mr Chishoim then started the social part of the programme by relating a fishing experience of his own in the year 1877. pioducmg an extract from the Ot?go DaiJy Times of tne 2Clh January of that year to vouch for the tri'th of J>^s story.— Mr \i. T. Wheeler "r Purls. (ex-Mayor of Dunedin), &lr Russell ise'tretary of tho Acclimatisation Society), Messrs Mitchell, Purvis, and Anderson (country \ISItor?), ard Mppsrs Aitken and Cook, Cr Barnes, iuid seveial otheis told stones in turn, each being careful to impress tue audie-i cc v ith thea- tuithfuli'ess. Sons«, instrun cutn 1 mu«.c, and refiesiments, ir.terb|j°r6ed with the t-tor es, helved to mike up an enjoyable cve-nr.g to .1 late hour.