ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 486, 28 July 1902, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Society was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Masonic Hotel, .here being present :—Messrs Acland 3ood (President), Sinclair, Kenway, Lucas, Hansen, Bedstone, and the Bev. Father O'Connor. Mr A. B. Williams wrote that, as revested, he bad taken steps to form an East Coast Society. Tho Wellington Secretary forwarded a -esolution to the effect that a gun license should be imposed, otherwise the feathered tribe in New Zealand would be doomed.

L’hey intended to get legislation in connec tion with the matter.

Mr Hansen thought the support of the Society should be given to the Wellington Society in the matter. The President said it was useless intro-

luring game if they were shot indiscriminately. It was decided to support the action of the Wellington Society. Correspondence as to trout was read. The Wellington Society could offer eyed ova on the point of hatching thrown trout) at 10s per 1000, and could spare 50,000 to but could not let the Society have |so many fry. Better results could be ' obtained from the eyed ova, as they carried better than fry, were cheaper, and would hatch out in two or three days after they were received, Members considered that it would be wiser to obtain fry. finances were gone into, and it was estimated that, with private subscriptions, ;here would he from £6O to £65 available r"o spend on trout, and the President moved that 50.000 brown trout fry be secon( j ec j t h e motion, which was carried. . It was considered safer to obtain brown trout, but it was agreed that if the number of brown could not be supplied the order should be completed with rainbow trout. . , , In regard to the hares coming to band, it was agreed that seme should be released at Mr Sherratt's and some at Mr Mander's place. Considerable discussion ensued as to where the Virginian quail should be distributed. The President said that they had learned that the birds liked good cover, so that they should only be released where there was bush. It was resolved that the main proportion of quail should be liberated at Poututu, and the remainder in the Waimata, ai Patiikau (Mr Murphy s), at Mr Hood's place, and well up the Arai. If only a few arrive, Poututu, which members considered an admirable place to establish the quail, is to have the preference.