ACCLIMATISATION

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND BOUNDARIES. (Fkom Our Own Coskespondent.) INVERCARGILL, August 20. At the monthly meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatisation Society the Stock Committee recommended that an effort be made to get the Southland acclimatisation district extended so as to be co-teiminous with- the survey district. They were of opinion that the watershed would be a better boundary than the river itself. The President (Mr G. G. Burns) said that the boundaries had existed for a great number of years, and any extension' of them would" be an encroachment on the Otago district, and would meet with onposition. Mr W. A. Stout said it was anomalous that the boundaries should continue as they were, and lie- painted out that- for all other purposes than acclimatisation they had been altered. The President remarked that if the sug-. gested extension were made, the Soutnland Society would have the Mat-aura TEtiver and tributaries, which would be arc important aj£set. In order to show what might arise at present, he said that recently the Southland Society's ranger had detected poachers on the other side of the Mataura River, and he consequently; would be a witness, and this society's solicitor had been instructed to prosecute on behalf of the Otago Society. This involved delay, which would have been avoided had the river been under th© jurisdiction of this society. Mr Stout said they should point .out the anomaly to the Otago Society, and ask for its co-operation in securing a ioadjuFtment of the boundary. . Mv Leary pointed out that Gore was id the Southland acclimatisation district and Wyndhani in the Otago district. If the change proposed wre made it would mean a substantial increase in the revenue for this society from the issue of licenses, but apart from this' consideration, geographically they were entitled to that portion of the district. Mr J. S. Murphy suggested that the members for Wallace and Invercargill should be asked to use their influence in the matter. It was decided that the Stock Committee's suggestion be adopted, and Bteps takeu to have the boundary made coterminous with that of the land district.