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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1840, 28 August 1913, Page 6

Tho hatching' season at tho now fishponds at Mastorton has just been completed. The new hatcheries have proved satisfactory from every point of view. During tho season 755.000 ova liavo been hatchod _ dor the Wellington Acclimatisation • Society. Besides these 5000 quaint salmon and 10,000 American brook trout havo been hatched for the New Zealand Government. The latter will bo forwarded in the courso of a week or two to tho exhibition aquarium at Auckland. "Tho finest coach for geography I havo ever known in my life," js Captain W. do R. Barclay's description of the secretaryship of the Overseas Club. Mr. Barclay was saying' at last night's annual meeting of tho club that lio did not wish to retain tho secretaryship. Ho added tho work of the club had brought him into touch with the names of places that ho did not previously know existed. Ono of his correspondents was a woman in Vladivostok, whoso purposo in writing was to find tho address of some Russians who woro reckoned to bo in New Zealand. Captain Barclay's contention that tho work was an excellent thing for a young man to tako up was ignored, and the captain himself was unanimously reelected.