ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1391, 31 July 1878, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The monthly meeting of the Council wan held yesterday at Badcliffe’s Hotel, Sir 0. Wilson in the chair. INTRODUCTION OF WHITEFISH. The following letter from the Government to the chairman on the subject of the acclimatisation of whitefish was read : Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, Bth May, 1873. Sir, —I have the honour t > acknowledge the receipt of the copy received through the secretary i f the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society of a report which you made to that society on the 2nd nit of the res >lt of your conveyance of the whitefish to L ke Coleridge. The Government have read the report with interc-t, and I have much pleasure in conveying to you their thanks for the service you have performed. I have the honour to he, sir, Tour most obedient servant, 6. S. Whitmore. CORRESPONDENCE. A letter was read from the Crown Solicitor’s office, Timaru, in reference to prosecutions against offenders in that district under the Proi.ection of Animals Act, and requesting information as to tne various Acts hearing on the subject. The Secretary stated that the information had been sent. A letter was read from the clerk of the R.M. Court, Lei hfield. stating that ho had paid in to the credit of the society the sum of £2B 10s, fines inllicled under the Protection of Animals Act, 1873. A letter was read from the secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, inquiring whether the Christchurch Society could supply their society during the approaching season with 3000 or 4000 brown trout ova. The secretary stated that he had replied to effect, that the proposal could not be entertained, the ova being a comparative failure this season, owing to the injudicious treatment of the fish lust year. ACCOUNTS. Several small accounts were passed for payment, SUPPLY OF HARES. Letters were read from Messrs Dowding, of Coldstream, and Luscombe of Makikihi, applying for Imres. The secretary stated that the requests already received for hares were so numerous as to be very much in advance of the ability of tie society to supply. He had therefore replied to the let ters that the society were unable at present to comply with the requests. He might say that thirty-nine hares had already been sent to the South Canterbury Society, and twelve to the Hon. T. Wigley, in the same district. The meeting then adjourned.