ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2651, 5 November 1909, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES.

annual conference.

ITfk Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. The annual conference of acclimatisation societies is being to-day. The following officers were elected. Pre sident, Mr. Tnpp P Fitzrov • council, Messrs’ Wilson (iara naki), y Hanan (Invercargill), Brown (Dunedin), Payton (Auckland), Carl ) a ~,,1.-1 n mil D. Moorhouse (UanterHry) ' Jmies (Stratford) Chisholm (Otago), Rutherford (South Canterbury), Hiffiton (Wanganui) Lowe (Wellington), and Pollard (Marlborough). A remit from Wanganui, urging the Government to .proclaim a close season m 1910 ■ for all imported game other than deer throughout New Zealand, and foi that one season hares be declared game in those districts where! they are not (fame, was negatived. A southland remit requesting the Government to provide protection from stoats and weasels throughout New Zealand was agreed to, witlrthe addition of the words m such district or portion thereof as the acclimatisation ’ societies or the local authority controlling same may; deterTho Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference! resolved that the Government lie ashed to prohibit automatic or machine guns; that no person be allowed to use more than one double-barrelled (run on one day; that the Government b e urged to continue the importation of Atlantic salmon ova, and to put an amount on the Estimates for the purpose this session. The ceil'ference has concluded, but arranges to-morrow to wait on the Government.