ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 209, 4 August 1937, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

MEETING OF COUNCIL. The council of the Feilding Acclimatisation Society met last evening, the president (Mr P. P. Stevens) presiding. Also present were Messrs \V. J. Alpe. I>. G. Fraser, G. Bramwell, G. Lawrence, J. R. Waugh, E. Ingram, J. P. Jepson, T. G. Boness. and the secretary (Mr C. Wickham). The president stated that 70 pheasants would be arriving in a fortnight’s time and the question of liberation was discussed. It was -stated that 50 had been liberated earlier in the season.

Mr Fraser thought that certain places along the rivers should be closed in order to allow birds to breed, otherwise it was useless putting out birds at all. Suitable poults at which to make the liberations were decided upon. It was decided to recommend to the Wellington society that an allocation of £6O be made out of the Feilding Society’s funds to the Paraparaumu game farm and that certain pens be known as the “Feilding pens.’’ The chairman stated that the Feilding Society’s affairs would shortly be handed over to the Wellington Society under the amalgamation scheme, and the secretary was authorised to go to Wellington to confer regarding the change-over and to make the necessary arrangements. It was decided that members of the council and district sub-committees make a trip to the Mangawa rarike Stream dam for the purpose of inspecting it in order to determine if its destruction is an economic proposition. The meeting recommended that the regulations printed in the Wellington Society’s licenses should be altered to read that the Pohangina and Oroua Rivers were fishable with live and artificial bait, but that the Oroua River, from the Aorangi bridge to Menzie s ford, bt fishable with artificial bait only.