






Sept, 28, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 

form the next day I go to bed early. It is a 
good life this, and we policemen are a merry 
crowd. 
The society's gold medal for fly competition 
on the Waipahi was won by A. L. Thow, with 
thirty-seven fish weighing 28% pounds, and the 
silver medal by F. Ladewig, with thirty-one fish 
weighing 24 pounds. Fishing has greatly im- 
proved the last few years on the Waikouaiti 
River owing to more attention being paid to keep 
the shags off the stream. 
Forty licenses were issued to shoot four stags 
this season, 1907. The number of real good 
heads obtained was not so numerous as _for- 
merly, probably owing to the great drouth. 
Stags to grow good antlers must have good 
feed. A goodly number of the stalkers were 
from the Home Country, and these all spoke 
very highly of the red deer country, predicting 
a great future for the herd, and expressed them- 
selves as highly pleased with their outing on 
the hills and the sport obtained. Nearly all the 
stalkers got their four heads. Fortunately, the 
weather in April this season was fine for camp- 
ing out. Many good fallow deer heads were 
got on the Blue Mountains, but the large number 
of stalkers (109), who were after the bucks, is 
probably too many to allow of four heads to 
each in future. 
Although more rangers were employed during 
the year to keep down illegal practices, poach- 
ing still goes on to a considerable extent in the 
society’s district. Your council feels that it is 
not getting the support of the public it should 
in protecting the trout and game, and appeals 
to all, especially sportsmen, to assist the society 
in keeping down illegal practices. A number 
of convictions for poaching were obtained, and 
fines up to £5 were imposed by the magistrates, 
which, it is hoped, will have the desired effect. 
The sum of £70 1s 6d was paid for shags’ 
heads during the year. This means that over 
500 shags were destroyed. Nothing requires 
more attention on our streams than the destruc- 
tion of the shags. The society pay 3s for old 
birds and 1s 6d for young ones shot on our 
inland streams. 
Last year the society sent home an order 
for 100 little owls from Germany, but were only 
able to get thirty-one. The owls were brought 
out in the steamer Maori, which left London 
in September and arrived at Dunedin in the 
latter part of October. Twenty-eight of the owls 
arrived in good condition, which showed that 
great attention must have been paid them on 
board the steamer. The society is greatly in- 
debted to the High Commissioner for New Zea- 
land in London for his assistance in procuring 
these birds and making arrangements for ship- 
ping them; also to the Shaw, Savill and Albion 
Company for bringing the birds out free of 
charge. Mr. J. Gibson, Ashley Downs, Waiwera 
and Mr. A. C. Iversen, Alexandra South, kindly 
undertook the liberating of the owls, fourteen 
being sent to each. Since being liberated these 
birds are to be seen in various parts of the 
district. and appear to be thriving and adapting 
themselves to their new surroundings. 
In his address Vice-President Chisholm said 
that the report partook very much of the same 
nature from year to year owing to a great ex- 
tent to the fact that the society’s operations 
were very much restricted, on account of what 
he considered the fatal mistake of the Govern- 
ment in introducing stoats and weasels into the 
country. Another reason was to be found in 
the wide distribution of poisoned grain and other 
poisons to kill rabbits. For many years the 
society had found its efforts entirely nullified 
through these causes, and it was really useless 
to persist in introducing winged game of any 
kind to the colony. Consequently, the reports 
were very much the same from year to year, in- 
asmuch as they simply: dealt with the year’s 
work in fish culture. The ova collected, the 
fry hatched, and the fish reared during the year 
constituted a record. For this satisfactory re- 
sult they were indebted to a large extent to 
the Water of Leith. From that source the largest 
proportion of the ova was obtained, and the 
minister of marine had assured him that he had 
given instructions that a proclamation should be 
issued reserving the upper waters of the harbor 



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AT SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 
September 10-12, 1907 
High General Average 
-AT THE 
PACIFIC COAST HANDICAP 
WAS WON BY 
AN AMATEUR. 
MR. H. G. TAYLOR, of Meckling, S. D., 
who used 
“NEW E. C. (Improved)” 
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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 


who broke 363 out of 380, and 



