ROO & GUN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 14 February 1910, Page 6

ROO & GUN.

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY .GRIEVANCES. Some severe comments were passed at a meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society with reference to the Government's hasty and ill-advis-ed legislation in connection with the Animals! Protection Act, 1908 (states, the "Herald")- According to tue Act. this year is to bo observed as a close season for the shooting of imported game, quite irrespective of whether the game will be plentiful or not. The society derive an income fvcviu the issue of licenses, which enables them to employ rangers to pioto"!; the srame in the various fUstricts. The authorities, the members emphatically declare, appear tn illave overlooked the fact that if lieenso--are done away wiili for a venr no rancors can be employed, and the AH of 11)08 must, therefore, become null

and void, as the Government has no staff lo enforce the carrying out ol the Act. The .consequence will be that'poaching and shooting will be continued the whole year round, aim the object for which the Act was instituted, to preserve the game, will be defeated. It was stated that every acclimatisation society in the North Island, except one, has strongly declared against 1910 being made a close season, as game birds are now s o plentiful .as to cause serious damage to crops in many districts. The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association has forwarded a prate:,! against this year being made a close season.