SHOOTING LICENSES

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 2567, 19 April 1922, Page 3

SHOOTING LICENSES

THE ACT OF LAST SESSION

Mr F. Alexander, secretary of the EllesnuTO Gun Club, recently wrote to Sir Jleaton Rhodes asking for information concerning the Animals Protection and Game Act passed last session. He has received a reply and has called a meeting of tho Ellesmcre Gun Club for next Friday night to consider the matter. The Minister's reply is as follows: —

"1 have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 3, stating that you have observed from the newspapers that the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has been granted permission to make a charge for a license to take or kill native game, and asking to be advised if this is correct. |In reply, I have to inform you that the Animals Protection and Game Act passed las:; session, contains provision that no person shall take or kill either imported game or native game unless he is the holder of a license, further provision being contained in the Act giving the Governor-General power to make regulations fixing the fees to be paid for such licenses, and the fees fixed are as follows: £1 for a license to take or kill both native and imported game, and 10/----ni cases where it is desired that, a separate license should be issued in res pect of native game.

"As far as the North.Canterbury district is concerned, provision has been made for the issue of two licenses, one to cover both native and imported game at a-foe of £!_, and one for native game only at a fee of 10/-.

"I may add that the law permits any person in bona fide occupation of any land, and any one son or daughter of such person, to take or kill on his land during the open season, without license, any. imported or native game that may lawfully be taken or killed under a license in the district within the, boundaries of which such land is situated, or the person in bona fide occuptioji may appoint one other person in his stead, in which case he shall not himself take or kill game without a license while the appointment remains in force. "

It is understood that all shopkeepers in t.ho district will close their premises at 12 on Saturday next, when the -Ellesmere County Trotting Club's meetina takes place. That the course of justice is slow" but sure? must be tin;,reflection of a certain Italian Government clerk. Twenty years ago he was dismissed from the Italian postal service, accused of sfcealI ing a postal order that had disappeared in the office at Aquila. Recently n clerk was tiding up the safe there and-! found a yellowed postal note for a. considerable sum. An old man, v;ho had been in the service for more than :r quarter of a. century, remembered that a clerk had been charged with stealing an order and dismissed. An investigation followed, and the innocent victim of the blunder was -finally discovered. The Government awarded him-, 20,000 dol. —the amount of salary he would have received had he not been discharged. ■ The bully beef 97 years old, recovered from the stores left at the Arctic by the Parry expedition in 1.52.J, which has just been sampled at ilnll and declared "sweet and good," is, says the Daily Chronicle, fresh compared with the steaks on which some heroic "Russian scientists feasted a few years ago. The were cut from the, body of a prehistoric mammoth discovered in the great Arctic refrigerator which must have ended his career, on the most conservative estimate, 100,000 years before it .provided the banquet. Another remarkable menu was served up at a dinner given by a Belgian antiquayv about the same time, which contained apples recovered from the ruins of Pompeii, wine found in a vault in the city of Coriiil.li, and bread made from wheat which had been preserved in an Egyptian pyramid for over 2000 years.