ACCLIMATISATION LOSSES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 594, 16 August 1913, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION LOSSES.

HATCHERY FLOODED. Two successive pieces of ill-luck have befallen the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, both of which may have far-reaching results. The president of the society.. Mr W. H. Hazard, informed Ihe members of the council at this week's meeting that he had just received a telegram from the curator at the Tapapa hatcheries stating that the river Waimakiriri had been in exceedingly high flood, and that the river ponds had been submerged. This meant, Mr Hazard was afraid, that the whole of the society's fish in the ponds had gone. "Right on top of the probable loss of our pond fish," proceeded MiHazard, "there has been a mishap in connection with the consignment of 100,0000 brown trout eggs sent to us from the Government hatch' eriea in Otago last week. They were consigned to Frankton, from whence they were to have been forwarded to Tirau. The consignment was not put off at Frankton, however, but came on to Auckland, where the cases were found upside down. As a rule, such a thing would be fatal, and it remains to be se in what has happened in this case." Mv Hazard said he had made representations to the Minister for Marine, who had undertaken to do his best to replace the eggs if they had been killed.