ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

. DBEE-STALKING SEASON. . The monthly meeting of the council of tho Wellington Acclimatisation; Society was held last evening, Mr. L. O. H. l'ripn presdding. . Tho chairman reported that tenders for the erection of the new fish-hatchery at Masterton had been called by Mr. G. D. Ayson, architect, of Lower Hutt, and would close 011 Monday next. As scon as tenders had been received a special meeting would bo called and tlw tenders considered... ; - ;. - : . -,. t . . In'answer to a communication from the .'Department of Internal Affairs as to 'deer regulations, it was resolved to recommend that the dates of the season 'ihi; •'•the- district; should , bo March 22 and May 17.' (- i.''.'The-reason. for; earlier date than >April -1, • bn'which.tlie'-season. opened; :last year,'isihat Easter falls on ; an-.earlier ,'date this'yea'r/'fTho,-deer-shootirig' season: : : ■ will open on; tho, day-after Good Friday, so that sportsinonmay be enabled'to turn' tho:Easter-hohdays to'account.- -r >• '/ >It '.was'. agreed'.'to' recommend that the. ; ;sam'e^-deerrrescrvesi'n3 : '' were opeiied.' last. ■3 ; ear.-;sho.uld;.'.be 'opened ;this .ypair,-;with'. ,p6ssib|yj.'ai : .siriair : estensioji : :ih 'tho Ma?ia-'' .r.vatu district.: •- •'''.'.•';-U^ !^L r 'c-' •' .(The. ".curator-tof- the*;' game-farm'l'vitte!;

;reqiiestinff.'tliat some of-the-young mal-; lard ducks bred : tlais year should ;b(S re-; .moved..',": \ . It was resolved ( to-place, half of the Jyoung'ducits-ill sanctuary on Mr, Field's .Totara lake, and ail adjoining lake, and the remainder on the Horownenua lake, ,Tvhieh r also is.a sanctuary;