ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 66, 11 December 1919, Page 9

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society was held yesterday, Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp presiding. A letter was received from the New Zealand Shipping Company informing the society that the company would bo pleased to bring out two rod stags and two nimls from England, the understand- • i that they am to I>p carried • .freight froo without ]t "was decided to accept tlio company's otter. " A letter was receded from Mr. James J. n ood, of "W-ainui-o-mata, informing the society tlmt the deer arc becoming a in isanco, anil aro continually destroying the crops. It was decided to give permission ».o Mr. Wood to shoot tlio deer on his property, and the ranger is to'bo Bent out. It was stated that 936,5C0 brown fry i>avo been liberated in the Wellington acclimatisation district, in the following proportion: Wairiirapa North 300,000, Wwrarapa South 100,000, Eketaluina 102,000, Palnatua 81,000, Levin 3G.000, Tainape 51,000. Palmerston 58.500, WaiJconae 20,00(1, Wainui 20.000. Hutt River 139,000, Akatarawa 30,000, Mmigaroa 35.000, Marlon 20,000, .Sutherland Bros. 8(00. Koro-Koro 1000, Masterton ponds ,10.000. Rainbow trout to the number of 179.500 had been liberated, us follows: Marton so,ooo, Iliintorville 30.000, Tnihape 30,000 D l ]'!" 1 ";' I^ooo ' 500. Palmerston 21,0(10 Lcvm 10.000, Mangaweka 10,000, Wawtouru 10 000, Waim.i 3000, TauraS U' 1 nOOO. Ilmakura 1000, Murchison Brown yearlings to the number of ifiOO had been released. 000 in Wa.i.rarap,i North Soillh 800, .Hull 700. Wnntni 300, Metohnna 80°, Tailiape 250. Palmerston 500, Palliatua 350. Levin 300. Wellington Zoo,