The Reporter.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 4, 22 April 1893, Page 11

The Reporter.

SOUTHLAND ACCLIMATISA- . TION SOCIETY. The report of the Society’s operations, as disclosed at the annual meeting, held on the 17th inst., under the presidency of Mr J; Turnbull, was of a highly satisfactory nature. The financial year opened with a balance of £97 Os 9d, and closed with one of £216 2s lOd, while the expenditure had been less by £23 15s 7d than in 1892. A new hatching house has been built and arrangements completed for hatching out 250,000 ova. During the year 190,000 trout fry had been hatched out by the curator, Mr A. N. Campbell, and distributed in various river's. About £34 had been expended in the distraction of shags —the price would probably have to be raised to 2s per head in future. A consignment of salmon ova is on board the s.s. Kaikoura, due about the end of the month. There had been comparatively little poaching during the year—the public were apparently becoming more sportsmanlike in their instincts. Mr Turnbull was re-elected President, and Messrs W. Russell and H. Feldwick were appointed vicepresidents. Mr E. Tanner was again chosen as hon. secretary, and the great services which that gentleman and the curator had rendered were recognised by a bonus of £lO 10s each.

EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS. At the annual meeting o£ the Collegiate Classes Association, held on the 14th inst., the Rev. J. Ferguson (President) in the chair, it was reported that arrangements had made for continuing the classes for the present year —the session to be four months instead of five. The question of organising classes for primary school and technical work was discussed, and a committee was appointed (consisting of Messrs Mehaffey and McNab and the Ven. Archdeacon Stocker) to see the Mayor (Mr D. McParlane) in reference to the holding of a public meeting to consider the subject, and to prepare a prospectus, and it was also decided to enlist the sympathy of heads of firms in the movement.

The Lindhurst road district has not yet been merged in Southland County. Consideration of the resolution dealing with the matter has been further adjourned to the May meeting. How the money goes. According to Cr. Raymond the Government has speht £9OO on roads leading to Waikawa township, whereas the County Council could have done the work to better advantage for £450. The re-adjustment of the boundaries of ladings was again before the County Council at its last maeting, when a motion by Cr. Baldey, that no further action be taken this year, was carried.