AN UNFAIR HALF

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1923, Page 4

AN UNFAIR HALF

FOB if ST DEHAnTM ENT AND OI’Ofs.SU.M REVEX! if. (Wellington Dominion). Despite the further 11.-prc'i itialnm ■ made l.y th" Weil!ugton Acciimat i.-a-lioti Society in tin- internal Aiiaiis Department l!;:;t the a lloca t ion ol ojio-siim rcvcuui' sitould not be altered. and t!i;il tifcli mat ■-a t i.n: ;-(i- is • 11< - should mat i ini" ;.< i.-.eire . .-. n-i hirds ..; He- ri'V, lute, it hti- !■ ■ ■ decided by th- Internal Ali'nirs D-. p U'tn.-t,I that the society Id rcteivc m-iy a hali share. This d.-.-i-ion evoked a storm of protest tn the Wi-lliugt-n. A.fliluatis.tition Society. "I don't think the Slate Forestry Service sliouiii receive hall the revenue unless they earn it." stated Mr A. Seed. The State l-'ore-try 8,., vice had been in existence i'or three years, and lie had not heard of an instance ol it forest rv ranger doing any thing in

the matter of opossum protection. He thought the iialf-aud-lialf division ol the i’eveuue under the eiiciimstam-es was decidedly unfair. Air 1.. O. 11. 1 rinp' was of tin- s.-unc opinion. He did suit see why the Forest Service should receive half the revenue when they did practically nothing to protect the opossums. All the inemhers were unanimous that the half-and-half share of the .'reVenue was grossly unfair, if the Forest Service did not earn their half. it was finally decided that Mr !.. 0. If. Tripp, the president of the society, sliould approach tlie ('naimissitmor in charge of the Forestry Department. the Hon. Sir Heaton Itliodos, in the interests of the Wellington Arrlimati-ation Society, to see if something could not be done in the matter.