ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 3

ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING Mr J. Rhodes presided over the annual meeting of the Otago Anglers’ Association, which was held last night. Moving Oie adoption of the annual report, the Chairman said that the past season was the best the association had experienced for a number of years, tho entries in tho various competitions representing a 100 per cent, increase on those for previous years. The credit balance at the end of the season was £29 19s, which represented a profit of nearly £3 on the year’s activities.—Tho report was adopted. The following office-bearers wore elected for the ensuing year:—President, Sir D. Hunter; immediate past president, Mr S._Rafiills; vice-presi-dents, Messrs C. Acnward and H. J. Millow; committee—Messrs S. Medder, W. Young-, I. Hodding. H. Border, A. Mitchell; L. Griffiths, J. Chapman, J. Jackson. Ql. F. Peters, G. Peatc, and A. Everest; joint secretaries, Messrs R. Joyce and 01. Wilson; treasurer, Mr W. T. Bruiley; auditor, Mr C. A. Wilson. Considerable discussion ensued upon the introduction of a suggestion that bait-casting should he prohibited on rivers in Otago. The argument ranged from the desirability of the present size restrictions existing in various parts of Otago to the relative tolls taken of fish by anglers and shags The bait-casters were defended by Mr H. G. Williams, who said that the exponents of the dry fly took far more fish than anyone else, and then the speaker told the meeting something of the results of his researches into the habits and appetites of shags. It was decided to urge the Otago Acclimatisation Society to prosecute the destruction of shags relentlessly.