ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2236, 28 April 1881, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Council of the above was held at the Commercial Hotel yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs Boys (in the chair). Bridge, Dr. Brittain, J. B. Hill and Mr E. 0. Parr (bon. see.) Account* amounting to £lB 6s Id were presented and duly passed for payment. The following letters were read:—The Under-Secretary wrote, referring to the recent interview between a deputation from the society and the Premier, and stating that there was no vote under the Appropriation Act from which a sum could be voted to make up for the loss of revenue sustained by the society, owing to their being deprived of the fees for shooting licenses, on account of the closing of the season for game. The secretary said the letter was written under a misapprehension, their application had not been taken in the proper light. The meeting thought the result would have been the same in any case. From the Colonial Secretary’s office, enclosing the gazette with notification as to conning licenses. The proclamation was to the effect that hares might be taken or killed within the North Canterbury distriot from the Ist of May, 1881, to the 31st of July; and that licences to take or kill snch game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each ; licenses to sell snob game to be issued on the payment of £5 each.

A discussion took place on the representation of the secretary that the proclamation had not been made in accordance with the request of this Society, but the Government had to comply with the Act. It was pointed out that the license of 20i was too high for coursing. The secretary said he bad consulted Mr Thomas as to whether they could issue fees for coursing at former rates, and he bad written to the Government on the subject, but had not yet received a reply. Mr Hill moved—“ That the Government be asked to give effect to what is conveyed in the secretary's letter, re the open season for coursing hares, and the fees appertaining thereto, as great inconvenience will arise if the proclamation is not modified to meet what is desired.’’

Dr. Brittan seconded the motion, which was carried.

From the Oolonial Secretary'* office, stating that the Government authorised the gentle* men appointed by the society to test the existence of salmon in the Waimakariri and Avon to fish in those rivers for the purpose. From the same, appointing Messrs Stycbe, Adams, Sharp, and Wilson, rangers for the Canterbury provincial district. The following letter was read : Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, April 14th, 1881. Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 11th nit., in which you forward a resolution adopted by the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, opposing Mr A. M. Johnson’s request for permission to capture salmon trout in the Canterbury rivers for the purpose of artificial propagation, I am directed to inform you that Mr Johnson has received a communication from this office to the effect that Government is unable to grant him the authority for which he applies. 1 have, &0., Q. S. Cooper.

This concluded the only business of im parlance. Some routine matters were die posed of, and the Board adjourned.