ROD AND GUN LICENSES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 4

ROD AND GUN LICENSES.

1 VISITING SPORTSMEN'S FEES. SHOULD THEY BE LNCREASEDP • There was a strong, but not quite . unanimous, feeling, at last night's meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation I Society, that non-residents of the Dorain- \ ion should be required to pay higher ! rod and gun license fees than residents. Mr. Tripp (the chairman) . remarked that many tourists had. told him that ; the license fees in New Zealand were • far too low. {n order to emphasise this ' point, a visiting sportsman had on one occasion made an additional donation of five guineas to the funds of the society. ; Jtr. Holmes moved that, it'be a re- ', commendation to the incoming commit--1 tee to raise the deer-stalking and the game licenses to five guineas in respect of non-residents of the Dominion. . Mr. Low remarked that he did not like : the idea of putting a poll tax on tourists i for that was what the proposal amounted to. It was his opinion that there should be one licvnse fee in regard to 1 all. If visiting sportsmen cared to do- ' tiate anything to the funds of the society ' well and good. Mr. Devine thought that there were two sides to the question. He reserved to himself the right to oppose the motion if he thought proper when it came before the council. ■ Mr. Holmes said that some- of the visiting sportsmen had admitted to him that at Home they could not get such sood sport for .£SO as they got here for , half a ?uinea. Mr. Wilson point"! out that at Home the u<o of a mile of water for fifteen to twenty rod? could not bo obtained for less than IMOO. He might remind members that in «mn«t'on with the charge for admission to Whakarewarewa ReServe, the Government itself rtiftprcntintcrt bplv.-oen residents of the locality and non-residents. Ultimately the motion to refer the matter to the council was carried, with one or two dissentients. ' ;