A proposal that farmers should be required to pay a license fee of 5s a year for carrying a gun met with severe criticism at a recent meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. “I do not think that any Government will ever compel the farmer to pay anything for a gun he uses,” said the president, Mr. F. E. McKenzie, in speaking against the proposal. Mr. C. A. Whitney said that similar licenses were in force in England. The scheme would return revenue to the Government and also to the societies. On the ground that it would be unwise to antagonise farmers the majority of members voted against forwarding the suggestion to the conference as a remit, and it was dropped.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 15
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