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similar to the ponds at New Norfolk, in Tasmania. 
The cost of construction was £357 11s. lid., i?300 
of which amount was voted to the Society during the 
last session of Parliament as a special grant for the 
work. There are two ponds ; one for salmon trout and 
the other for brown trout. They are supplied from the 
waters of Riddell’s Creek, and are finished in a com- 
plete and substantial manner. The thanks of the 
Council are due to Mr. Curzon Allport, one of their 
body, for furnishing plans, and for the practical 
interest he has taken throughout ; also to Mr. Gerard 
Blackburn, engineer of Gisborne, who superintended 
their construction, and to Mr. William Robertson, of 
Wooling, on whose property the ponds are situated, 
and who has from the first taken a deep interest in 
the work. The ponds are now stocked with young 
fish (salmon trout and brown trout), and as soon as 
these become productive it will be a comparatively 
easy matter to stock all suitable streams in the 
colony. The Council hears, from time to time, 
of the capture of large trout in the different creeks 
stocked some years since by the Society ; one a 
short while ago was killed, which weighed upwards 
of 9 lbs. 
Another work of equal importance has also been 
carried to a successful issue since the last general 
meeting, namely, the formation of a pheasant breeding 
establishment in connection with the Society. It is 
situated in the ranges, about forty miles to the south- 
east of Melbourne, and so far the experiment 
has succeeded admirably, the birds thriving there 
remarkably well. The Council trusts that, through 
its instrumentality, pheasants will before long become 
