ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 8 May 1925, Page 4

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

MON'miY meeting'.

Tho monthly meeting of the Council bl the Bouth Canterbury Acclimatisation Society was hold' in Timaru yesterday afternoon. Present —Messrs L. 13. dames (president), it. Macdonald, C. S. Young, W. E- iioys, J. McDonald, E. Adams, W. J 3, Grant, If. C. May, and Dr. Hislop.- % - CORRESPONDENCE. . Tho Department of' lAkbrual' Affairs forwaraeu a copy 01 an extract uoui tne “Gazette," cont-aunng regulations respecting tne export tor naio or ueer, deer sitiiiS, vens u „, stags’ neaus, or antlers. • The inosu important ciause was as follows:. “r\o person snail ox- . port or attempt to export ior sure oeyond New /,e aland 'any ueer, yenison, i stags' heads or- tne antlers or skins tnereof, wiciiout me consent m writing of tho Minister.”— Received. ", A circular was received irom the Department of internal Art airs setting put tho game sanctuaries under tno Animals Protection and Game Act Received. .

Aquarium Ltd. wrote accepting tho Society’s .offer of brown and rainbow trout- for the Dunedin Exhibition, and guaranteed their safety. They were ‘especially desirous of securing a large quinnat salmon. —Received. Society will render any assistance possible. - Letters were rqad. from the Otago and Southland Acclimatisation Societies quoting prices of eyed ova for brown'and rainbow trout.. 1 The WJaitaki .Acclimatisation Society advised"'that they ' would pay 2s per H,ead for fully grown black shags, but had held over the matter of paying for eggs and,.nestlings. . -. '■ The North 'Cantfirbury , Acclimatisation Society wrofe disapproving of th proposal that a JOs’’shooting;,license he made available fhrouqhoirt 'the South Island. It was pointed out by members that the varioqs societies had different •pecies of game in their respective • districts that may be shot. _ At the present they had under consideration the importation of birds from other countries which would cost a considerjible sum.. .They .considered that as the 'game license-holders found the necessary funds for. them to carry on, it Vould riot ho advisable ,to extend the •Janie privileges to license-holders of Mother societies from whom they derived .Ho revenue.—Repoived.

RANGER’S REPORT. «* The. ranger (Mr .J. S. Main) re- < (ported that the last month. of the mshjng season’'in the ~Opirii^.river had . fielded gooctfdbaskots, to 181bs JUeingJ takerij; ..’..The >riin ended 'at Eastefjpitfter which "it-was a fare fthing "to see a quinriatTMoming' front :|he s&wiAlEhe; previously run of fish, - sefor6'\th& became UowAand clear, ’anglers' laridipg from 3-'t6l'-14 :r fish on odd , 'Mays, while- the, seasqn’s catch for ' <*od and line toiould be over 500 salmon, ijt'ho duck shooting seqson opened in (fine weather,- and although game was tlentiful, the- bags obtained were poor, n the Mackenzie paradise ducks were jarce and no-.parties, there shot theirlimit. Grey ducks were more numerous than.-he had ever seen them before. gThat, he thought, was due to a sixvpich fall of snow ancl rough weather deriving ‘ the" birds off- the top’ lagoons the lower levels of Tekapo. GENERAL. , m Tlie annual mooting .of the Society ’ The'Hjrinmpal' v brismess ; - will *be - the adoption of the annual report and ‘ balance "'sh'Set and"‘the"*election of of- ■ v ' ■‘"The'-’MloWing ; 'iriembers of tbe ex- ' ■ ecufave-will be, retiring from office Timaru and Leyels County, Messrs T. R. rMfibskay,, yFy H., jjling, ..arid C. S., Yourig; Territtka and Geraldine County, Messrs J. McDonald and AV. E. Boys; Mackenzie County, -Messrs E. Macdona|d*ari|l US.?Adams' Mri : L. Storey, representing Qeraldine and Temuka, Will also retire by reason of his departure' from, the district. \ Accounts afnounting to £3l 4s 3d Were passed for payment. t