... your most interesting and convincing address on Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador.  You certainly have hit the nail on the head.  It is now demonstrated by experiments in many parts of the world that the only sure way to preserve indefinitely a supply of wild animals is by giving them well-placed, well-selected sanctuaries, wherein at all seasons they are safe.  I am delighted to know that you are taking up this important matter with such vigor.

South Africa.  Major Hamilton, Superintendent, Transvaal Government Game Reserves, Koomatipoort, says: 

I have been much interested in reading Col.  Wood’s address.  They seem to have the same difficulties to contend with there as we have here, i.e., ignorance and apathy of the public, and active opposition from those with axes to grind.

Major Hamilton encloses the Regulations under Section 4 of the Game Preservation Ordinance, 1905, (C)—­Reserves.  By these it appears that “owners of private land situate in a Reserve or persons having the permission in writing of such owners shall have free access to every part of such land.”  But routes of access in the Reserve generally are exactly defined and must be followed.  Penalties up to L50 may be imposed for the infraction of any one of six different clauses.  Major Hamilton also says: 

     The Game Sanctuaries of the Transvaal stretch along the
     eastern border of the Province for a length of 250 miles
     with an average breadth of 50 miles.

They are in charge of a Warden under whom are six Rangers.  Five of these Rangers are in charge of each of one of the five areas into which the Reserves are divided, four for the Sabi Reserve and one for the Singwitsi Reserve, and each has at his disposal a force of 12 native rangers or police.  The sixth Ranger is specially employed in the capture of live animals for zoological purposes, the destruction of vermin and for any emergency duty which may arise.  His headquarters are, therefore, within easy reach of the Warden.

The Warden has, further, in the districts included in the Game Reserve, the powers of a Resident Justice of the Peace, a Sub Native Commissioner, and a Customs Officer, while the Rangers, white and native, have the full powers and duties of police.  The area is therefore quite self-contained, and at the Warden’s headquarters, are police barracks, court house and lock-up, and a post of the Transvaal police in charge of a corporal is permanently stationed there.  The special by-laws which are enforced are set forth in the attached slip.  There are about 4,000 natives, all told, resident within the area.  Most of them have been admitted as residents on condition of their giving assistance to the staff, and hold their tenure conditionally on their behaviour.  This system has been found to work admirably, for, while practically no harm is done by these residents, very considerable assistance has been obtained from them in detecting poachers.

     All carnivorous mammals are treated as vermin and are
     systematically destroyed.