ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 182, 16 August 1909, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

At a meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society a letter was read from Mr H. J. Mussen, secretary of the newly formed King Country Acclimatisation Society, slating that the rules of the Auckland Society with slight modifications, had been accept ed, and that delegates would attend the meeting of the Auckland body from time to time.—The President, Mr Payton, expressed pleasure at the formation of the new Society, and welcomed its president, Mr Moorhouse, at the meeting. A list of 15 streams in the King Country was submitted by Mr Moorhou?e, in which, he said, he would like to have trout fry placed during the coming season. A number was askei for each stream, the tetal requisition amounting to 230,000. The President said that as the Society was to be allowed only 500,000 ova from Rotorua no promise could be made on the sub-ject.-—Mr Moorhouse said that next year the Society would be able to get as many eggs as it required from the Waimeha —Ongaruc stream. Mr Moorhouse referred to the scarcity of quail in the King Cpuntry, and suggested that it might be possible to "catch a few thousand in districts where they were plentiful, and send them to the King Country."—The president said he was not sanguine about the chance of catching the quail as desired, but a not* was made of the matter for further consideration.