ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8442, 15 May 1907, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society states, that the receipts for the 'year were £1,853 8s 3d, and the expenditure. £1,863 10s lid, leaving a debit balance of £lO 2s t ßd. The revenue frohj'' fishing licenses was £958 0s 6d, as compared with £926 2s lid for the preceding year. The, chief item/of expenditure was £758 on the Masterton Fish Ponds. Netting for spawning trout com- , menced in the Mungaroa and Belmont. Rivers on June 6th ;and 7th, and , ( in. the Waipoua on May 15th./'The! nv'm- % bers of fish caught were :-f Waipoua,. -&3fl, giving 254,000 eggs';,Mungaroa,. 37, giving 26,000 eggs; Belmont, 54, giving 37,000 eggs. Two hundred thousand brown trout eggs Were procured from the Government and 100,000 from Opihi fish were presented by the Government. The rainbow ova, taken between June 14th and: August 31st, numbered 203,000. Fifty thousand rain bow eggs were , purchased from the Auckland Society and 50,000 from the Government station \£ The total number of eggs put down to, hatch was :•*- Brown trout, 617,000; rainbow trout, 303,000; total, 920,000. Eightyt",'o per cent, of the eggs werehatched and liberated. Owing to floods inthe Waipoua River nettingwas only carried on for 32 out of the 73 days that the season should iast. The council being of opinion that considerable reduction was necessary in the expenses at the Masterton, Hatchery it adopted the suggestions, of the Mas'erton sub-committee to that end. They were substantially as t follows:—No breeding fish to be held at the ponds; discontinuance of river netting for the present; obtaining a supply of green or eyed ova for ali requirements, including the retention of fry for yearlings; the employment of as little extra labour as possible; the employment of assistant Miller to look after hatchery, distribution, etc., at present wages with use of house. A rearing pond for yearlings has been constructed at he Upper Hutt and stocked, and it is recommended that such ponds be made elsewhere as funds permit. The offer by Mr John Barton of a site on his property at Trentham, with water rights and site for custodian's cottage, was accepted with thanks, ■ * Every effort' has b'een made to put down poaching and a scheme for the more effective ranging of the outlying districts is now under consideration. . PALMERSTON NORTH. ' Twenty thousand rainbow and 35,000 brown trout were - placed in the streams, but out of a thousand yearling fish allocated only 127 reached the district. Twenty English mallard .were placed on the preserved kgoonsjand twelve English pheasan(s on a prohibited farm. The fishirg licenses from the Palmerston office numbered 163. The committee considers a subsidiary pond should now be constructed in the district to hold fry until of sufficient size to be liberated. EKJSTAHUNA. Trout fry were liberated in the Makakahi and Mangatainoka. The fishing in the Upper Mangatainoka is gradually improving, though rainbow - trout are not very plentiful. A consignment of cock pheasants was. liberated- at the end of the previous season, and several large broods of young pheasants have been seen. Hares are thriving and also the deer at the head of the Mangatainoka, where in two years the herd has increased to twelve. The committee urges the council to stock the district this autumn, there being a large scope of country, with abundance of food. PAHIATUA. Fishing results were rather disappointing, not many large trout being caught. Twenty-eight-thousand rainbow, 60,000| brown trout, and 200 yearling rainbows were liberated, jthe last-narned in ft the Makuri. A consignment of pheasants 'was liberated on the Balfour Estate. A few quail have been seen •in ■ favoured ; spots; hares have increased everywhere and will give* some-good sport this season. Blackbirds and thrushes are very numerous, and minahs are .coming on. Shags are. being reduced, but stoats and weasels flourish.

A bankrupt stated to the Official Assignee in Wellington, yesterday, that he had paid 15s for the loan of £ls for a fortnight—l3o per cent per annum! :',',■< > ;' J The colonial mails which left Wellington per the s.s. Maheno on April sth to connect at Sydney with the Naples mail per the R.M.S. Omrah, arrived in London in the afternoon of the 12th inst.,-two days early., The Minister for Marine, Hon. J. A. Millar, speaking in Auckland, last week, said he had seen by newspapers) tlfat an attempt* was being made to foster the, cry of North v. South. He trusted that no man in the colony, whether he came from the extremq North or South, would ever permit the interests of the two islands to be divided. There was great room for development in the North Island, for not one-third of the possible settlement had been effected, and it would be criminal on anyone's part to interfere with the development of the north, which must mean| the development of the whole colony, for increased production and wealth benefited New Zealand as a whole. Liniment* canno'. lcmovethe ree.l trouble in rheumatism, gout, ic.atiea and lumbago. Rheumo does, by removing the excess uric acid from tho blood. Rheumo effects a I thorough cure. 2/6 and 4/6. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualitiM and BPCCfss of SANDkIi * SOWS' EtfCALYPTI ItXTBACT hive brought out many imitations, mid oiie cr> ■ was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, beiore bis Honour Chief Justico Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving judgment said *vitb rc.v' to the GENUINE SANDER & RONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc.. u b not pprruissablo to imitate any of ii.3 features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and oraered them to pay all costs. We publish thisto afford tho public an opportunity of protecting themselves and of ptcurinc; what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at tho Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 80 years i i be a preparation of genuine ».-.•': vW. THE GENUINE SANDER dV SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRAOr.