AMALGAMATION PLAN

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1935, Page 6

AMALGAMATION PLAN

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES. STRATFORD ANNOUNCES VIEW. “That the chairman and secretary attend a conference to be held at Pal? merston North on Saturday and that they be authorised to express the socletie’s opinion that if amalgamation is forced on small societies we consider a west coast society comprising Waimarino, Feilding. Wanganui, Hawera, Stratford and Taranaki societies, would be the most preferable form of amalgamation,” was the motion passed by a meeting of the council of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society last night after the Wellington society invited Stratford t. send delegates to a conference of societies contiguous to Wellington. Discussion on the matter was taken in committee.

Mr. Eichstaedt reported that there were about 50 pheasants still to be liberated from the hatchery. The chairman reported on the efficient equipment and management at the fish hatcheries of the Taranaki society at Inglewood. Every care was being taken to ensure hygienic conditions' for the fish, he said, and the president of the Taranaki society, Mr. W. H. Moyes, had offered the Stratford society 20,000 fish of five and six inches length instead of the younger fish, which were only an inch and a-half long. It was a very sporting action, the chairman said. These present were Messrs. A. E. Hunter (chairman), J. Petrie, C. Atkinson, N. Ebbett, A. E. Eichstaedt, E. H. Eason, W. J. Walsh, E. G. Jones, E. P. Pridham, A. T. Davey, E. Worthington and G. A. Carter (secretary).