ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 246, 17 April 1912, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

ANNUAL REPORT. I The annual report of the Taranaki Ac- ] elimatisation Society, to be presented at I the annual meeting on next Thursday I evening, congratulates the society on the | progress made during the past year, j It has been the busiest since the inception of the society, and it is hoped that | the work accomplished will have a mark- | ed bearing on results in the future. The | members will recollect that at the last annual meeting it was decided to procure the services of a capable and experienced curator. This was done, and .Mr. Seale, previously of the Wellington Society, has been in charge of operations since April last. Two hundred thousand ova passed through the curator's hands —IOO,OOO brown and 100,000 rainbow trout, Hatching results were only fairlv satisfactory, trouble having been met with owing to the excessive amount of silt coming into the hatching-boxes with the water used. Better results are Uoked for in the coming season, as advantage will be taken of the experience gained in this direction. The report adds that Mr. J. E. Wilson attended the annual meeting of the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies' Association, which was held in Wellington in August last, as delegate from the Taranaki Society. The local society submitted the following remits for consideration, and it is pleasing to note that an Drdcr-in-Council has been made giving effect to them:— "That an amendment to the Fisheries Act he obtained, providing for the payment to acclimatisation societies of fines imposed upon offenders convicted upon prosecutions under the provisions of the statute, in the same manner as fines imposed on convictions on prosecutions under the regulations of acclimatisation societies; that an amendment of the Fisheries Act be obtained, providing that all weirs and constructions placed across fish-bearing rivers or waters, by local bodies or others, be provided with proper fish ladders or ways." As regards hawks the report states that a fair number of the birds were destroyed during the year. The society is again purchasing the feet at 6d per pair. The \ revenue for the year was £l7B lis fid, which, added to balance (£l7 6s lid) brought* forward from last year and cash in hand, gives a totaj of £202 16s 6d. The expenditure was £197 14s 9d. leaving a baknee in hand of 4211 Is 9d. The statement of assets and liabilities is at follows:—Assets: Balance at bank, £lO lte 9d; cash in hand, ss; amount of claim due on accident insurance policy, £7; hatching-house, plant and holdingponds at Inglewood, Tariki, and Warea, £80; two brace pheasants and game farm, £3—total, £lOl Is 9d. Liabilities: To Tourist Department for rainbow ova, £25; Marine Dapartment for brown trout ova, £25 17s 6d; balance, £SO 4s 3d—total, £lOl Is 9d.