APPENDIX 365 



BY THE CORPORATION OF SUDBURY 



NAME. 



RESIDENCE. 



Samuel Higgs, Esq. 



J. Francis Hills, Esq. 



A. H. White, Esq. 



G. Lancelot Andrews, Esq. 



Alfred Smith, Esq. 



Sudbury 

 Sudbury 

 Sudbury 

 Sudbury 

 Sudbury 



At a meeting of the Board of Conservators held at the Shire- 

 hall, Norwich, the 27th April 1878, on the proposition of Lieut. - 

 Col. Duff, M.P., an association was formed, called "THE 

 NORFOLK FISHERIES PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION," for the purposes 

 of collecting funds for and carrying into effect in the county of 

 Norfolk the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Act, 1877, of which 

 Association the Conservators for Norfolk, Norwich, Yarmouth, 

 Thetford and Lynn were appointed the committee. 



This Association was a success, its principal regulations being 

 the appointment, from time to time, of keepers, watchers, boatmen 

 and others employed by landowners to be water-bailiffs, with power 

 to act in certain defined districts and localities under the Norfolk 

 and Suffolk Fisheries Act, 1877, and the institution and conduct 

 of prosecutions in Courts of Summary Jurisdiction in the name 

 of the Board of Conservators, the costs of such prosecutions being 

 defrayed out of the funds of the Association. 



In 1879 no less than forty-two water-bailiffs for the preservation 

 of fishing had been appointed by the Norfolk Fisheries Associa- 

 tion, 242 members had been enrolled in the Yare and Bure Pre- 

 servation Society's books, and many cases of poaching were detected 

 and vigorously prosecuted ; whilst extra water-bailiffs were ap- 

 pointed every year following. 



From the time that Mr Buckland first took interest in East 

 Anglian waters he was always found to be of great help and assist- 

 ance, and in 1879 he promised Mr W. S. Everitt that if a meeting 

 was called to discuss the advisability of introducing foreign fish to 

 Broadland he would attend and deliver an address. The meeting 

 was summoned at Lowestoft, under the auspices of the Waveney 

 and Oulton Fish Protection Society and its President, the Rev. Sir 

 Charles Clarke. It was presided over by Lord Waveney. After 

 Mr Buckland had addressed the meeting, an interesting debate 

 arose, from which originated what was then termed THE NATIONAL 

 FISH ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY, of which the Marquis of Bristol was 

 appointed Chairman and W. Oldham Chambers, Secretary. The 



