A REPORT 
ON THE 
FISH BREEDING PONDS 
OP THE 
ZOOLOGICAL AND ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 
OF VICTORIA, 
AND 
INTRODUCTION OF FISH INTO THE RIVERS OF 
THE COLONY. 
By CURZON ALLPORT. 
The following are extracts from a description of the 
ponds which appeared in the Australasian SJcetcher in 
April last, the frontispiece to this report being, by 
permission of the proprietors, taken from the illustra- 
tion in that paper : — 
“ The ponds are upon the private property of Mr. William 
Robertson, at Wooling, near Gisborne, about 40 miles from 
Melbourne. An area has been enclosed of about two acres of 
land, prettily situated upon a stream which takes its rise in 
the neighbouring spurs of Mount Macedon. A water race, 
supplied from this stream for Mr. Robertson’s saw-mill, takes 
in its course a bend away from the stream, approaching it 
again at a lower point, and an oval space is thus formed, 
which, after falling a few feet from the level of the race, 
continues almost a flat to the bank of the stream, which here 
runs a cold, clear, fern-hidden brook, some 15ft. or 20ft. 
below. This space, which is above all danger from floods, has 
been cleared and planted with English grasses, and in its 
centre are the ponds. 
