ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1045, 31 October 1877, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Council was held yesterday, at Cookham Chambers. Present—Sir Cracroft Wilson (in the chair), Messrs Boys, Farr (hon. sec.), and Marshman. A letter was read from the curator suggesting that the young trout should again be advertised for sale. Mr Boys thought the fact of the young fish being ready for sale should be made generally known. Mr Farr said the previous advertisements had not resulted in a single application being made for fish. | On the motion of Mr Boys, the secretary was instructed to advertise again in the Press and “Times.” A letter was read from the Waitaki Society asking on what terms salmon fry could be procured, and asking information as the best class of birds and animals for them to obtain. The secretary said he had forwarded a reply that no young salmon were at present available. He ihad informed the Waitaki Society as to the best class of birds, &c., to introduce. Mr Hill wrote apologising for his absence from that meeting. A letter was read from Mr S. Simmonds, of the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, Malvern, offering to purchase a number of Dorking fowls, if the society would forward them. It was decided to refer the writer to the curator. A letter was read from Mr Wynn Williams, offering to pay for some young trout to place in the Gust, rather than another season should go by without this being done. He would also like to hear of the society sending up another lot to Lake Coleridge, and would suggest a number being turned into the Selwyn. It was resolved to sell Mr Williams a number of trout to turn into the Cust, and the secretary was instructed to inform that gentleman that 500 will be put into the river at Coalgate, if it is shown that that water is accessible to the public. Mr Boys said he had a somewhat better suggestion tq make than those contained in Mr Williams’s letter. Within fourteen or fifteen miles of Christchurch there was water which might be stocked with fish, accessible to the public, and also having public roads on each side. |He alluded to what were known as the Rangiora drains, and would move—“ That 500 trout bo turned into the main drain, and 250 into No. 1 drain.” He would also suggest that some fish should placed in the Ashburton. There were several gentlemen living in that neighborhood who would look after them, and he strongly advocated their being liberated in that river, Mr Farr seconded the motion, which was agreed to. On the motion of Mr Boys it was resolved to turn 500 trout into the Ashburton, if some

gentlemen will take charge of and look after them. The Secretary said he had received a letter from the South Canterbury Society, asking that the Opihi river might be proclaimed closed against fishing, and he had replied that this had been already done. In reply to an application from the South Canterbury Society it was resolved to allow that society to have 500 trout. It was decided to adjourn further consideration of the distribution of the young trout, and after passing some accounts the Council adjourned.