RIGHTS OF SPORTSMEN.
Acclimatisation Society will Not Insist. The rights of sportsmen to go on private property were discussed at a meeting of the Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last evening. It was finally decided to rescind a motion passed at a recent meeting stating that the person or persons on whose property any game birds were liberated should give an undertaking to the society that when the season for the birds is opened permission would be granted to any legitmate shooter to enter upon the property, provided an authority had been received from the secretary’s office. “It is seeking a good deal to ask a landowner to give this guarantee,” said Mr L. G. D. Weir, who introduced the motion to rescind ths resolution. The property owners were doing something for the society when they gave permission for the birds to be released on their land and they should have some rights in the matter. The birds were not going to stop on the one property and it was too much to ask a man to give an undertaking to allow anyone to shoot over his land when the man next door, who has done nothing to assist the society could keep shooters off.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 375, 17 March 1932, Page 6
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