ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17125, 21 April 1921, Page 10

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of tho North OaattN \ bury Acclimatisation Society atntes that tM "A amount received by tho Society from all JJ sources during tho past year amounted to £1476 3s id, which included a sum of £UQ| f 3s lid received from the sale of gwam' egg* t -A Tho expenditure for tho past year amounted' K to £1625 Oa 6d. There was the mm of Otf M lis 2d to the credit with the Socioty's btajty J& ers at tho ond-of tho financial year. - The rntrf •» of £BSO IBs had been received from the mSi j£* of flghinff licenses for tho past season, a&4 *?}» this showed an increase of £l(f> on tho prw vious year's receipts. Qamo sliooting ««f AST also fairly satisfactory. is« The Doer Committee reported twt, of, QUI Pss 24 free licenses issued between the Httnuiai % ahd Clarence rivers in order to extaniuto |!j tho deer there,, six 6lalkeT» were unable id ff make use of the privilege. The reports «~' , stalkers who went out were that the de«r iq ij& the country were in very poor condition, Witt '-M many malforms.' It was understood thaH if many good heads, were obtained from the) m Kakoio. »nd Poult«r river' herds, but it Vml ,|3 regretted that stalkers did not supply ranch* 'M information to the Society • about toe oondU <l| tion of the deer ahot. ffl In the Gardens CbmmJttee report It !•< -M mentioned that the output from the hatchery* - M including 378,000 eyed ova sold, amounted to .'§§ 1,323,000 brown trout, and 190,000 rainbow 1 fry. .In addition to this aotne tbree-yearoloT M rainbow trout were liberated in the' Avon* 'iS Tho committee record* its thanks to tho fol« » lowing gentlemen for assistance in liberating JE fish and game:—Messrs H. M. .Mbrten, O, TT m Robertson, W. Deans, H. Nimmo, Sholtd . ! 8 Douglas,- A. J. MoCreadie (Railway Depart* M men!), R. M. D. Johnson, F. .8. J. Dean, T. MasefioJd, and C. Deans; alto to) *is Messrs J. Westerman and G. Witty, M.P., 1 for donations' of goldfish. '§]