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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 6

TOURISTS AND FISHING LICENSES. Sir,—l notice in flip "Auckland Weekly News" of August 14, that (lie Acclimatisation Conference rccomniends that oversea trout fishermen l;e charged £H for thfir licenses, the local license being JSI. For a great niimher of the above who only have n limited holiday, and perhaps only lake one week's fishing, the above charge is prohibitory, and as a good many of the visitors to New Zealand are drawn there by the facilities hitherto given for fishing, if they are thus deprived of their snort tiiev will stop awav. I shall myself. I can got. good fishing and shooting hero without paying any license whatever, with uo discrimination against New ZeaInnders'or others. I trust, however, that on consideration this imposition will not be carried out. 1 am sending a copy of the "'Weekly News" Homo to the "Field." so that they may know what to e.xprct when next thev contempla'o a trip to New Zealand.—l am, etc., "OVERSEA." Inclusive of the silting Labour M.P.'s there are now SI Labour candidates for the next general election in Britain. Over X 2700 realised at the command performance at the Palace Theatro will be given to music-hall charity, in accordance. with the wish of the.'King. The Cameron Highlanders, who are stationed at Glasgow, have secured a _do;j from Major Richardson's kennels at Harrow lo a«.Msfc in sentry work. Child immigrants into Canada last year numbered I'll. Nt : whom only 2.1 were found useless; tl>«re was an average of 8 applicants for each child.