PISOATORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2529, 19 February 1887, Page 2

PISOATORY.

Tho following report of the Saranakl Acclimatisation Society to onr local followers of piadicblture: From tbo accounts to b?; ,faidbefora the meeting, this evening you will notice the Society started the year with a balance of £3l;.} 9s 3d, to which has to be added roventTe from game licenses and memberanip,'i67 Ids, making s total of £99 14s B<l, The expenditure for the same pericfd has been £55 3a 14 leaving a balance of £44 lis 7d. Tha only outstanding-liability is an amouht due to the Otago'Society for trout ova, the account for'.which has not yet reached ua. The Society's operations and funds for tlitf past twelve months (with the excoption of the purchase ot twenty-three brace of Californian'quail) have been,. exclusively devoted to the introduction of-fish. In July a number of young perch were proonred from Mr Johnson, of Canterbury, and liberated in a suitable lake. From the' same gentleman a box,of American char or& was receivod, bat, ofifortunstely, when opened a; laige* percentage of li proved to bff Bad j 1 Kewevor, mat young fish' maMi sound egga and in.onr streams., Op geptembfeiStW our portion of the salmon hafcohed at ChrlMn'rchfroa'ova imported by the Government erlonic ftroai London in Msroh last) caitjb ts hand ii fairly good order, 1 pqme ljk) haying died in transit. 'The youngish were-kept in our ponds' until thJi7tb September whea;27o each werfl/lijmed into; th«i followih'g rivers) Wfeiwakaiho, Walg, frofe Qtago arrived ih''splendid' eontho. hatching boxes; with but a small percentage of lom. 'A hw of the young been sent to Eivefji Ajid-thei, balance n<wr in ponds. sill be :■ ready for distribution betw«BU:now and May ! next,. it is, understood, are sow sqfficlentk >oll to bo included next licenses to ehoot port was adopted.., |v :