complies with certain regulations.  But, at the points most threatened by poachers, the practice is followed of granting five-year leases of moderate areas to individuals and to clubs.  The first requirement of these grants is that the lessee shall appoint a guardian, approved by the Department, and shall cause the conceded territories to be protected in an adequate manner.  The guardian, for his part, is immediately answerable to an individual who pays his salary.  He contrasts his former precarious living as a trapper or poacher with the assured competence which he now earns more easily, and makes his election in favor of virtue.  Thus he becomes a faithful servant both of the Government and his employer, and a really effective unit in the protection of the Park.  The lessee, in turn, will neither practice nor tolerate any infringement of the laws which would imperil his lease, nor deplete of fish and game a country which he intends to revisit.  He would not necessarily be actuated by these motives if he entered the Park casually and considered nothing but his own sport or pleasure.  It may be added that the lessee has reasonable assurance of the extension of his privileges if they are not abused and knows that he will be compensated for moneys properly expended if the Government sees fit not to renew his term.  The guardians co-operate with one another under the general guidance of a most competent inspector, and the striking increase in fish, fur and feather is apparent not only in the region immediately protected but also ouside its boundaries.  Trappers who fought bitterly against being excluded from this part of the public domain now find that the overflow of wild life into the surrounding country enables them to bring more pelts to market than they did in the old days, and have become reconciled.  Guardians, gillies, carters, porters and canoemen live in whole or in part, on providing fishing and shooting.  Under no other arrangement could the conceded territory afford sport and a living to so many people, and in no other way could the balance between resources and their exhaustion be so nicely maintained.”

On page 47, Mr. Blake corroborates the statement of the shameful act I mentioned at the bottom of page 18 of my Address.  “On sighting a band of six caribou he bade his man sit down to give him a rest for his rifle.  He then fired and continued firing till all were killed.  When his companion made to walk towards the animals, Sir ——­ said to him roughly: 

“‘Where are you going?’

“‘To cut up the caribou.’

“‘...  I don’t want them.’”

This game murderer killed three times as many as the prescribed limit on this one occasion.  Yet nothing was done to him!

SANCTUARIES

However desirable they are from any point of view leaseholds are not likely to cover much of Labrador for some time to come.  They should be encouraged only on condition that every lessee of every kind—­sportsman, professional on land or water, lumberman or other—­accepts the obligation to keep and enforce the wild-life protection laws in co-operation with the public wardens who guard the sanctuaries, watch the open areas and patrol the trade outlets.