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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 8

I)elerioration in the quality oi New Zealand's game fish supplies has been exercising the minds ol acclimatisation S( , ielics" throughout the Dominion, which'foresee a decided loss of revenue, as well as a loss of snort, ii this date Duration is allowed to proceed unchecked. 'the report of the Fast {'oast. Aciiimat is.)l ion Society rulers to the elfmls of tlie New '/calami conference of acclimatisation authorities to llnd a solution of the .trouble, and mentions that leading authorities had addressed the conference. The Fast Coast society intimates, in its report, that the council lias decided to support the recommendation that a fish research fund he inaugurated, societies contributing to the fund on a basis of 10 per cent, of all fishing revenue, and 20 per cent, of opossum revenue. ’File o|x>ssum revenue is taxed, the report explains, for the reason that no expense is offset against the societies’ returns from this source.