ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1920, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

HE-OPENING OF FISH PONDS,

ASSET TO BUKEKUEA PARK. It will he remembered that at the last annual meeting of the Acclimatise tiou Society tlie question of resuming the business of rearing fish was very fully discussed, and a motion was eventually carried recommending the incoming council to undertake tllis work. Accordingly the officers of the Society have inspected various sites, and after careful consideration of the merits and demerits of all of them it was determined, as a start, to apply to the Pukekura Park Board for permission to resume the old fish ponds situated at the head of the lily pond in the Park. The Board having kindly given the necessary permission, the Society are at present engaged in having the ponds cleaned out and put into first-class working order, ready for the early reception of tHe trout fry, which will be held until they attain sufficient size for liberation in the river's of the Society's territory. The work of re-establishing the ponds is being carried out under the direct supervision of Mr. W. W. Smith, curator of Pukekura Park, and, therefore, lovers j of the Park may Test assured that no unsightly work, or work which is not in keeping with the beauties of the Park, will be undertaken. Indeed, it is the desire of the Society, approved by the Board, to make the fish ponds both an attraction to the public, whose interest it is most desirable to enlist, and an ornament to the Park, and with these objects in view, it is understood, the <ruestion of beautifying the site has already been gone into. During the war the Taranaki Society lay practically dormant. Nearly all its members were at the front—in fact, all who were able to go—and the Society's income naturally dwindled. /Now that happier times have come, it. is the general feeling' that a determined effort must be made to place matters once more upon a satisfactory basis, so that the rivers of North Taranaki may be re-stocked, and that once more they may provide health-giving sport. The initial expense will, of course, be considerable, but once started it is believed thai the income of the Society will be sufficient to meet tlie annual expenditure. With a view to carrying out this work a subscription list has been opened, and all "Brothers of the Angle" and others who are interested in the progress of the district are invited to subscribe. Donations may be left with any member of the council of the Acclimatisation Societv, with the hon. secretary (Mr. Val. J>nff> Devon Strept, New Plymouth), or at the office of wiis paper, and will be suitably acknowledged.

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