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RECREATION. 



GAME FOR NEW ZEALAND. 



Lake F. Ayson, chief inspector of fish- 

 eries of New Zealand, arrived in San 

 Francisco recently for the purpose of gath- 

 ering 1,000,000 of the eastern white fish and 

 300,000 salmon eggs to take back across the 

 Pacific. He will also convey 10,000 land 

 locked salmon eggs, presented to New Zea- 

 land by the Bureau of Fisheries, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and a consignment of bronze 

 wing turkeys for the agricultural depart- 

 ment. 



Inspector Moorhouse, who came from 

 New Zealand for the St. Louis exposition, 

 will shortly leave for New Zealand with a 

 consignment of twenty elk, twenty-four 

 Virginia deer, five black tail deer, some 

 raccoons, and a large number of Canadian 

 geese and wood and other ducks. 



Ten of the elk were presented to the col- 

 ony by President Roosevelt. The balance 

 of the consignment has been purchased by 

 the New Zealand government. 



These animals and birds are for libera- 

 tion in the colony, with a view of ulti- 

 mately providing sport. 



NEW ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. 



The North American Fish and Game As- 

 sociation, which met in St. John, N. B., 

 Feb. 2-3, elected the following officers : 



W. S. Hinman, Boston, president. 



E. T. D. Chambers, Quebec, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



Vice-presidents — H. O. Stanley, Dixfield, 

 Me.; F. S. Hodges, Boston; R. E. Plumb, 

 Detroit ; Hon. A. T. Dunn, St. John ; C. 

 H. Wilson, Glen Falls; G. A. McCallum, 

 London; Dr. J. T. Finnie, Montreal; F. G. 

 Butterfield, Derby Line, Vt. ; C. S. Harring- 

 ton, Halifax ; S. A. Megeath, Franklin, Pa. 



Executive Committee — J. F. Sprague, 

 Monson, Me. ; George H. Richards, Boston ; 

 Henry Russell, Detroit; D. G. Smith, Chat- 

 ham; J. H. Seymour, New York; S. T. 

 Bastedo, Toronto ; H. B. Charlton, Mon- 

 treal ; H. M. Wallace, Halifax. 



Membership Committee — General W. W. 

 Henry, Dr. W. H. Drummond, Dr. Brain- 

 ard. 



Audit Committee — W. J. Cleghorn and L. 

 V. Armstrong. 



HOW MANY DID YOU GET? 



The total output of the New York oyster 

 industry during the past year was 6,082,960 

 bushels, according to the annual report of 

 Superintendent Wood, of the Shell Fish 

 Bureau of the State Forest, Fish and Game 

 Department. Their value is estimated at 

 $7,603,700. During the year 2,129 acres of 

 land under water were leased for this in- 

 dustry, making a total of 30,000 acres within 

 the State on which oysters are cultivated. 



WISE PENNSYLVANIA MOVE. 



Resolutions recommending that a certain 

 percentage of the land in each of the State 

 forest reservations in Pennsylvania be set 

 aside as a permanent preserve for fish and 

 game, within which it shall be unlawful to 

 fish and hunt, were adopted by the State 

 Fisheries Association at the annual meeting 

 on Feb. 1. 



The association also recommended the 

 enactment of a law to prohibit the pollu- 

 tion of streams and indorsed the legislation 

 advocated by the State Department of Fish- 

 eries. 



The following officers were elected ; 

 President, A. H. Fealy, Hazleton; vice- 

 presidents, W. C. Watson, Warren, and 

 C G. Dorn, Bradford ; secretary, John W. 

 Hague, Pittsburg; corresponding secretary, 

 Barton D. Evans, Harrisburg; treasurer, 

 Dr. W. H. Reed, Norristown. 



NEW GAME PRESERVE. 



In a recent interview with the St. John 

 (N. B.) Times, Mr. H. R. Charlton, of the 

 Grand Trunk Railway system, said : 



"The Grand Trunk in connection with the 

 Ontario government is opening up a new 

 district called 'New Ontario,' and a rail- 

 way is being built in connection with it. 

 The new district comprises fifty square 

 miles of territory in the Temagami region, 

 which is to be reserved as a fishing and 

 hunting ground for sportsmen. This tract 

 of land is 1,000 feet above the sea level, 

 and is all virgin forest, the pines alone 

 being estimated to be worth about $50,000,- 

 000." Another important matter which he 

 alluded to was the fact that the company 

 has had special cars built for transporting 

 fish to this new country. These cars were 

 built about three years ago, and the com- 

 pany can carry from 800 to 1,000 large fish 

 each trip. 



THE FULFORD MEMORIAL. 



The committee having charge of the 

 Fu'lford Memorial Fund have contracted 

 with Jenny & Nelbach, of Utica, N. Y., to 

 erect a monument at a cost of $600 to the 

 memory of the late Elijah D. Fulford. This 

 monument will be erected or the family 

 plot in New Forrest Hill Cemetery, Utica, 

 N. Y., and will be dedicated on the first 

 day of the tournament of the New York 

 State Sportsmen's Association, which takes 

 place in June. M'r. G. L. Biederman, of 

 Utica, N. Y., will deliver the memorial ad- 

 dress. 



WHERE ARE THE WARDENS? 



From reports coming from Woodbudy, 

 Tenn., quail in that section are being 

 slaughtered, huntsmen shooting entire 

 coveys as the birds huddle in the cold snow, 

 or young boys trapping them and thereby 

 escaping the penalty of the law. 



