GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

ACCLIMATISATION MATTERS. J3y Telegraph—Press Association. Dargaville. Last Night. At the annual meeting of the llobso'.i Acclimatisation Society a resolution was passed'urging on the Hon. Minister of Internal All'airs the necessity for giving effect to the remit carried a! the last annual conference re amending the Act to provide for each society dealing with the question of ail open and closed season in its own district. In regard to a letter from the Department of Intern!J All'airs, re the formation of one strong acclimatisation society north oi: Auckland, a resolution was passed opposing the alteration of boundaries of the Hobson district, and expressing approval of the manner ill which the affairs of the district lutd been conducted in the past. CRUELTY To ANIMAL 3. Duncdin. Last Night. Tin) proposal that a New Zealand body be lormed, to he called t.ie New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, did not meet with support at the meeting of the c>iin:rjttee of the Otago society to-day. SCEN lillY FBE.»BR\ a'i . IN'. Palmerston Morth. Last Night. The Palmerston North Philosophical Society nas appointed a committee to draft a Bill to be presented to next session of Parliament for (lie extension of the Tongariro iteserve. to piv-crve the bivdi from destruction.