ROD AND GUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 8

ROD AND GUN

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY MEETS TROUT OVA DISTRIBUTION From Our Oxen Correspondent TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. The council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society held its monthly meeting at Taumarunui last night. Mr. F. M. McKenzie, president, was in the chair and those present included the various district representatives, members of the Taumarunui Rod and Gun Club, Mr. W. T. Routledge, chief ranger, and Mr. E. Riddiford, vicepresident of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Mr. J. Brown, president of the Rod and Gun Club, welcomed the council and visitors. Mr. McKenzie in reply said that under the present arrangements it would be possible to hold one monthly meeting of the council in Taumarunui every two years. In welcoming Mr. Riddiford, the chairman said that he had given a monetary donation toward stocking the Taumarunui district with pheasants. In the course of his reply Mr. Riddiford said the gun club was fortunate to be under the Auckland Society, which did more in the interests of game than any other society in New Zealand.

A letter from the Chief Inspector of Fisheries announced that a consignment of Californian ova would be distributed as follows: —30,000 to the Maingatangi River (Waikato tributary), 30,000 for the Upper Waihou waters, and the remainder for stocking the Waiwawa River (Coromandel Peninsula). Ten per cent, of tlie consignment will be retained at Tongariro. The allocation was approved. Tlie society resolved to procure 1,500 pheasants, as formerly. Regarding trolling on the Arapuni Lake and Waikato River, it was resolved that further amendments to the fishing regulations be postponed for one year.

The chairman pointed out, in regard to the, deer menace, that sooner or later an open season for deer would be announced by the Government, in whose hands the question now rested. The society had striven hard to obtain permission to liberate opossums, or alternatively to secure a close season to give them a chance to breed, but without avail.

The meeting decided that in future travelling expenses for council members attending meetings in country districts be defrayed by the society. Hitherto members have paid their own expenses. Mr. F. W. Bryers was appointed honorary ranger for the Taumarunui district.