"INNUMERABLE ANOMALIES."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 18 May 1911, Page 4

"INNUMERABLE ANOMALIES."

ACCLIMATISATION MATTERS IN THE SOUTH. (By Tclegranh.-Prefa Association.) lnvercarnill, May 17. The Hon. D. Buddo returned to-daj from Orepuki, where ho was entertained last night at a dinner, and received donutations on matter? of local interest. To-night he met members of tho Southland Acclimatisation Society, who asked for an adjustment of the Otago and Southland boundaries, the present state of affairs leading to tinonialies, tho water of the river, which is the boundary, being in neither district. The deputation also urged the alteration of the law making 10s. licenses for hares possible, also that the season for paradise ducks bo opened as least for a week or hre owing to the plenitude Df the birds and the damage they do to tho turnip crops. The deputalion also stated that three years' experience of net-tine trout in the estuaries had proved it to ho fatal to angling. It could bo shown that in Southland nine-tenths of (.lie trout notified to linve been netted had been caught in the first two months of tho angling season. Numerous Australian and other anglers had Minified their intention of not taking ou( licenses again, as tho game was not worth while in tho present stato of affairs. Tho Minister promised to rofer the matter of netting to tho Minister for Marine, and to give the other mattors his best, consideration, though as (o paradise ducks ho said that tho Government had definitely decided that theso birds should be absolutely protected.