King Country Chronicle SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1913 ACCLIMATISATION CONFERENCE

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 546, 1 March 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1913 ACCLIMATISATION CONFERENCE

The conference of delegates from the Acclimatisation Societies of the Auckland district which is to be held at Te Kuiti on Thursday next, indicates the growing importance of the district in respect to those pastimes which come within the scope of such societies. The Dominion is justly famed as the sportsman's paradise, and the potentialities of the King Country in respect to angling and game shooting are beginning to be recognised. A district of broad spaces, watered by beautiful streams, it would be strange indeed if the district did not commend itself to those interested in the work of stocking the country with desirable game. The King Country Society, which is affiliated to the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, has done excellent work since its Inauguration, and that the efforts of its members are bearing fruit in indicated hy the fact that good fish ing is to be obtained in many of our back country streams, which only a few yearß ago unknown to the pakeha. It is to be hoped that next Week's conference will bear good fruit, not only as far as the King Country is concerned, but in respect to the great work of acclimatisation throughout the whole province.