WITH ROD AND GUN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 8

WITH ROD AND GUN.

ACCLIMATISATION AFFAIRS. Sportsmen will be interested in the following resume -of the principal matter'-, dealt with at the Acclimatisation Conference just concluded at Wellington. On behalf of the Stratford Society, the delegate (Mr W. P. Kirkwood, moved that the authorities take steps to provide adequate protection to bird life in sanctuaries. The motion was heartily supported by the and strong representations will be' made to the Government on the matter. It is anticipated that in the case of the Egmon't National Park provieion will be made to protect the Park from* all the towns round the moun- 1 tain. I

• Tho Conference carried a resolution to import blackcock,- grey-hen, ryper and snipe. The latter sporting bird should do well in the swampy land in Taranaki and provide good sport when the pheasant will bo non est through the want of cover, which is fast becoming the case through the clearing of the land.

Oil the question of poaching fish with the nid of dynamite, delegates were most emphatic‘in their expressions of protest against this practice, and carried a motion fixing the minimum fine at £lO for this offence, and the Government will he strongly urged to make this law.

When Professor Prince was In NonZealand reporting on the fisheries in the ; Dominion ho recommended that Striped Bass, Alberta Grayling, and Gonramai, be imported and acclimatised ; the conference decided to back np the suggestions of the professor, and ask the Minister for -Internal Affairs to introduce the fish named.

Tt was reported to the Conference that the qninnnt salmon put in the Waitaki river in large numhers over n period of years were doing remarkably well, and the Government expert (Mr Avson) expressed the opinion that this magnificent sporting fish was now thoroughly acclimatised, hut recommended that ova still he imported, so ns to leave nothing to chance. Tt is intended to stock other suitable rivers with this fish.

With reference to game, the Government will ho asked to issue a loon] general license for Cl, this license covering the shooting of native game, or a native game license only at 10s per an mini. To give assistance to soeie ties’ rangers, the Government will he ashed to carry rangers’ motor cycles free on the railways. On the conclusion of deliberations, the Conference carried the patriotic resolution mo , 'ed throughout the Empire, the delegates singing the National Anthem.