GAME FOR SPORTSMEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 3

GAME FOR SPORTSMEN

LIBERATION OF BIRDS 1988 LARGEST SEASON Liberations of birds in the district would be the largest that had been made when they were completed next week, according to a statement made last evening to the meeting of the council of the East Coast Acclimatisation Society. Mr. F. Wrey Nolan was the chairman.

It was decided on the motion of Mr. E. A. Beer, seconded by Mr. Nolan, to keep an open season for opossums provided that the season was- also an open one throughout New Zealand.

A letter received from the Department of Internal Affairs asking for a report on the liberations carried out h.v thi' society in the Moanui district and that branch of the Motu River. — it was decided to reply that there had been no liberations throughout the past throe years owing to (he fact that the department had not made the fry available to the society.

Reporting on the work of the liberation committee, Mr. White said that he, together with Messrs. C. Broingan and B. Wells had assisted the distribution committee recently and the position to-day was that 425 birds had been liberated. A further 200 birds were still to be liberated in the district, which would make a total of 025, the largest number to have been set free in the district. The liberation would be completed by next Wednesday. Mr. White explained that the work had been fairly strenuous and he wished to pay a tribute to the good service Mr. Wells had been to the society. The recent floods had been troublesome in regard to the operations of the liberation committee