ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 4109, 28 April 1876, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Acclimatisation Sooiet }• was held this afternoon, present (Mr W. D, Murison (in the chair), Messrs Holmes, Fulton, Arthur, and Dean (manager). The Chairman mentioned that a few day. after the last meeting, at which a resolutic; in favor of coursing hares was passer 1 . several gentlemen waited on him, includii i Mr W. A. Young, of Palmerston, an t represented that a number of settle • in the district were of opinion th{ i' the license-fee of 50s recommended 1i be charged was too high, and tl t feelings of those interested in the matti were that a reduction should take place. After hearing what they had to say he d»i cided on calling a meeting of the society f( to-day. Since then he had ascertained froi i the Superintendent that he had received son! communication from the settlers requestir! the Provincial Government not to open tl ; season for coursing hares at all, and settin I forth the reasons for such wishes on variot : grounds. On receiving that communicatio : the Executive decided on postponing cons', deration of the matter. He had receive,* the following letter on the subject

Provincial Secretary’s Office, Dunedin, April 28,1876. Sie,—l am directed to acknowledge the receipt <' your letter of the date quoted in the margin (22i inst.), requesting His Honor the Superintendent proclaim the months of|May, June, or July an op» > season for coursing hares within a certain area •• tho Province, and to inform yon in reply th. strong representations have been made to H. Honor setting forth the injury which will accrue i; the district by the coursing of hares, and that t >' fore deciding upon giving effect to your roquet he would be glad to be informed as to the gener. teeling on the subject among the settlers in tl > district.—l have, &0,,

. Alex. Willis, Under Sec. W. D. Munson, Esq., Chairman Acclimatisation Society, Otago. On receiving that letter he wrote to Me Young informing him that the matter ha i- ! been hung up by the Executive till the t were better informed of the feeling of th.* district on the subject, and {suggesting thr* he should get a memorial to the Supe intendent, signed by as many residents iv the district as possible. Mo doubt a reply with a requisition attached, would hj received in the course of a few dayr. He was not at liberty to state the names i the parties objecting, but he did not cons:', der it a breach of faith to state the nature c the objections urged. One gentleman wb; owned a large amount of land in the distric' said that if the season for coursing was opene the result would be that the hares, whic ; were not very numerous at presen r would be driven on to his property, an? thereby occasion great damage to his tre*,» and plantation?, which had beta ]aid| out t \ considerable expense. That ground of core.

plaint was frivolous. A general feeling in favor of a reductio in the fee was expressed. The Chairman mentioned that he ha* received Ja {[letter from Mr Cumin, <[• Horseshoe Bush, suggesting Waipori an<i Tokomairiro for an open coursing season, and recommending that the fee be a guinea. It was stated that in these districts hare r were very numerous, and that they sprea i! over a large tract of ground. It was eventually decided to defer con*, sideration of the whole matter till the nccessary information was received.