NEW PLYMOUTH.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 70, 5 March 1895, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH.

TABANAKI ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. (Our Own Correspondent.) A general meeting of the above Society was held last Saturday for the purpose of fixing the dates for opening the shooting season for native and imported game. Mr W. L. Newman, President of the Society, was in the chair, and a fair attendance of members was present. After some discussion, it was 'resolved to have one day for both kinds of game, the season to open on the Ist May and close on the 31st July, both days inclusive. The imported game to be shot as usual—viz., C»lifornian quail aud cock pheasants, the license fee to be £l.

The question of selling licenses was fully discussed, and it was decided to approach the Government on the matter. The secretary was therefore instructed to write to the Colonial Secretary on the subject, and point out the great injury done to game preservation by holders of selling licenses in the large centres of population, and to see if it was possible to have their operations restricted to the districts in which such selling licenses are issued.

It was decided to appoint more rangers, and " our part of the district," viz., Opunake, will shortly, have one or two gazetted to look after the Society's interests. A member of the Society made a complaiut about the large quantities of sawdust which were thrown into the rivers, and stated that his cattle were suffering from drinking the water, besides the damage it was doing to the fishing interest, and -asked if nothing could be done to stop the nuisance. Mr Newman explained that it was contrary to law for the sawmillers to dump their sawdust into the streams, and said he understood that some action had been taken in the matter. The Secretary said the sawmillers were written to some few months back, but from what he could hear very little attention had been paid to abating the nuisance, beyond acknowledging the receipt of the letters. It was therefore decided that the secretary should again give the sawmillers notice, and say that unless steps were taken to stop the nuisance legal proceedings would be taken against them.