GAME LICENSES AND RANGERS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 751, 10 April 1877, Page 3

GAME LICENSES AND RANGERS.

'Sir.-t—l hear from several parts of the dis« tr,ict :# ..'ha'V pheasants promise to ho'ybry plentiful, .this year,, most , of the broods having been . Jarge onesi The birds too, are much more advanced than they were ting- time last year and the 'reprieve ihey buve got until the 21st May is rot at all necessary, as far as the Waikato is'concerned* There is no> doubt in the world that many a score of birds will be knocked , over, long before that date more especially how that duck shooting has been Btarted, and that sort of thing will Beyer be pat a Btop to under the present system of "rangers." La9t year rangers were appointed'and shooting without a licence < wns to be put do wh with a 'firm hand | and what was the resujt ? .The conviction at Newcastle where a man was fined for carrying afjim (by the way, I believe it was an old rifle) having no license to show.; Now, I feel sun? I am not ■ exaggerating When I say that for every man who takeß out a license in Waikato, five men shoot without one, and that, not only on their own farms,; but all over the country ; and vet none of the rangers seem to care ; a fig about it. ; ., It is manifestly linf&ir to the man,who pays ln* £2 10s; or £2' for the right to shoot that the birds should be killed and made wild, by those who poy nothing. Something surely should be done to remedy tb\ existing state of affairs;" ,and what jthat something is, is what I . want \o arrive, at. . , My. own idea is that a gun li ;enae tthould be charged, and I am confident also that a much jlarger revenue ".would ,be obtained tban is now accruing, from Game Licenses. Npthinp,, however,, will' be done unless, the ; sportsmen act ."together' arid insist on tilings; being . carried .out /very differently : irotn^wh'at'i .' tiieyj "have, heou:; hitherto. If they are apathetic why the Acclioiatiaat on Society . will "efiill go on, pocketing i he money and, toking cio cuore trouble than,, usual about, tlie matter, ,'ji would like to hear some .exprtte^ion: of opinion .from some of the 'porting men , about, on ; thia .maitc-r.— l Ulll, &C, vj . ..:-.•,-.. :.■■.,:■> :,■■ .I; „]■ :. .- '' , .",,- : . -, BeBBCH-IOADBB. Hamilton, April 6th, 187ft „■ ;;:;