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This week we
have the second half of his lock
at Game Acts across Canada,
and what changes they need.

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The one thing that stands out
in all the regulations except for
B.C.'s is the cancellation of
hunting priveleges after the
conviction of a person for a
Game Act violation. B.C. says
that the Minister ‘may’ cancel a
license. All the others say ‘shall’
and Quebec puts il even clearer,
“The holder so convicted cannot
apply for or hold a new license
before the expiry for 15 months
following the date of con-
viction’’ Which means he
eannot hunt nexl year either.
On the same line, in B.C.
someone must get hurt before it
is considered to be an offence
against the Act, Not so in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Ontario and Quebec. There,
they charge anyone who hunts
in a dangerous manner or who
hunts without due regard for the
safely of olher persons. They
also charge anyone who has
been looking al the bottom of a
bottle of Haigs through the
It allseems to make more sense
than waiting for a body to show
up before the charges are laid.
Another point that B.C. does
not consider to be important is
the carrying of fire arms out of
season or through a park or
other closed area. Other
provinces, Newfoundland,
Quebec and Onlario in par-
ticular are quile strict on this
point, though Newfoundland
may be just a bit severe. in B.C.
we have a very great need for a
law that would spell the end to
the carrying or large calibre
rifles during the periods of
closed seasons. Rifles and shot
guns displayed in truck win-
dows in midsummer make poor
decoration and I doubt that they
are intended for that purpose.
Manitoba prohibits guides
from*carrying a rifle while they
are out with a client, and their
idea has some meril, for there is
then only one person who can
shoot a trophy. However, I am
not too sure! would like to bea
guide with no rifle standing off
the charge of a grizzly wounded
by a hunter too nervous to
reload his gun.
Four of the provinces in
Canada have a section in their

acts that deserves a lot <of-

serious attention from B.C.
policy makers. They all call it
‘party hunting’. In these
provinces when a party of 3 or 4
hunters are out hunting moose
together, anyone of the party
may shoot the moose for the
whole group. There are
restriclions of course. One
province restricts the size of the
party that may use this system,

while another provides that.

participants must stay within
hailing distance of each other.
In all eases the total number of
moose must not exceed the
number of licensed hunters.
And party hunting applies to
moose only, except in Ontario.

Other provinces have lengthy

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sections dealing with the
trapping and protection of fur
bearing animals, Ontario has 13
sections on this subject and
Manitoba has 14. Saskatchewan
has written a separate act {o
caver all the points of the fur
trade, quite naturally called the
Fur Act. Although B.C. has an
intricate and fairly good system
of registered lines, the fur trade
merits only three very short
sections in our Wildlife Act. It is
very little wonder there is
supreme confusion about the
rights of trappers every time
the subject is brought up at a
trappers convention.

That should be enough of the
major differences between the
game acts of Canada and since I
have gone to a lot of trouble lo
gather all the informaiton, I
trust you will allow me to make
on or two points that I per-
sonally would like to see
become law or policy.

1 think guides and trappers
should be given the respon-
sibility to estimate and report
on the number and condition of
the big game animals in their,
particular area, these are the
men who are in the field with
the game, who know belter than
they about the game and its
problems, It must be remem-
bered that as both guides and
trappers would tend to be
conservative, their estimates
should not be considered the
absolule authority but the in~
formation one realiable guide
could provide could prove
priceless.

There is a lot of legislation to
be done covering the use of
snow and all lterrian vehicles as
hunting machines and this
should have some coverage
through the Wildlife Act. B.C.
has an ATV Act but it is weak to
the point of non-existance where
the welfare of game animals is
concerned.

There is one section that is
contained in every act (except
in H.C, where it is buried in a
pile of the infamous Orders in
Council) and it grants free
hunting privledges to
‘distinguished persons’. Some
provinces are quite definite
about who these people are.
While others can't seem to
make up their mind, leaving
loopholes. The graft here could
be enormous; even if the law is
not: -abused,--why-:should the
Duke of Paducha be able to hunt
for free? Or the goverior of the
state of Washington or the
Director of Inco? These people
can well afford to pay their way
-- besides most fees they incur
will go on the expense account
and become tax deductible. I
hope I don’t sound so narrow
minded so as to suggest that the
law be abolished altogether, I
would just like to see some
cleaning up and tightening up.
In B.C. law now, pensioners
must still pay $1 for a fishing
license. I must ask the
legislators of our distinguished
province, is a person who has
piven 45 years of his life, not as
much a ‘distinguished person’

_ Apphone can be a trip back home. _

- Remamber how you went through the’:
conversation bit by bit savouring it for

as, say, the newly appointed

ambassador from Outer

Magnolia?

Unless or until the govern--

men gets more biologists in the
field the conservation officers
must have more control over
the closure of seasons to provide
protection for the big game
herds that are in the danger of
being exterminaled.

And the sale of parts of big
game animals -- i.e. horns and
skull of big horn or stone sheep,
hides of grizzlies, must be
covered better than the present
rule that disallows only the sale
of game meat. This law is a
hangnail from the days of
market hunting, but now the
market has changed from meat
to trophy articles and the law
has not kept pace.

This piece of prose is
becoming so long that it would
be perhaps better for me to
have written a Game Act as I
intended. [t is certinly apparent
that any Game Act that puts
more emphasis of the release of
cals (domestic) in the wilds
(B.C, Act) than it does on the
role of aircraft or all-terrain
vehicles play in wildlife
management certainly needs
major surgery.

Itis my hope, and I know it is
a hope shared by many others,
that (here is a good doctor in the
house.

_» Next week Les brings you a
humourous piece of fun with lots
of litlle bits of learning thrown
In.

Cancer
Facts

The continuing research into
the cure and contro! of cancer
involves scientists from vir-
tually every branch of modern
science.

Some research centres have
specialized in investigating the
role of viruses in cancer,

It is well established that
many kinds, of cancer in
animals are caused by viruses,
and although it follows that
human cancer might also be
due to viruses, there is not yet
proof of this.

Some scienlists are looking
for, that: proof, others..are
working with known’ animal:

viruses, “studying their “exact’ “°°

functions and devising ways to
interfere witht their purpose in
life, which is to survive, to
multiply and to infect healthy
cells. ‘

Pamphlets and information
about cancer can be obtained by
writing to: B.C. and Yukon
Division, Canadian‘ Cancer
Sociely, 963 West Eight Avenue,
Vsneouver 9, B.C.

B.C. MINING

The mining industry paid out
$49 million for transportation of
preducts to the FOB point of
delivery.

THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

The possibility that ‘the |

Russian hockey team members
might be using E.SP. certainly
entered my mind, when I
watched ‘some of the hockey

games, and after’. having |

read of experiments that were
being made with this topic back
in the nineleen sixties! The book
Psychic Discoveries Behind the

Iron Curtain certainly takes .
many supposed occult topics out |

of supposition and into reality.
It is a book well worth the
reading.

Photographs in the hook show
energy coming from the
fingertips of a well person, as
contrasted with those from one
who is ill or even just nervous, It

was intriguing to read about
colour changes in this energy,
‘and how an injured leg showed
the colour red emanating. The
“aura’’ is not a myth , and is
something common to plants,
animals and people. The pain
people feelin a part of the body
that has been removed, can be
explained because of this
outside body, which seems to be
largely magnetic in its con-
stitution, Special photographs
taken of half a leaf show this
outline of the other half which
had been removed. °

Other interesting topics
coxicerned blind people feeling
colours and even learning to
feel printed letters, and one

rticular blind woman who
is able to predict’ accurately,
many future events,

On the topic of reincarnation,
experiments have been made
under hypnosis with a type of
induced previous life. This has
largely been with the subject of
Art. People whe have had
trouble drawing or painting
have made remarkable strides
after believing to be Rubens, or
Michenlangelo or any other
specific artist, under hypnosis.

One particularly gruesome
type of experiment was made to
help to explain why a mother
knows it is her particular baby

that is crying, no matter how

many others might be in a
nursery. The young rabbits
were taken from their mother a
long distance away and drown
ina submarine, Yet every time
one of her young rabbils was
killed, the mother rabbit knew
or sensed that something was
happening to one of her young.

I am only mentioning some
brief episodes from the book,

___ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1972.

but should mention before
leaving the topic, that if this
planet is never going to be a
peaceful one, the countries of.
the U.S.S.R. are going to be
ahead of the rest of the world in
both sending messages by
E.S.P. or intercepting them.
The reason given for the
research that was being done,
was its invaluable use in outer
space when all other com-
‘munication lines are out of
order, (The book is available in
pocket book: edition, so does not
involve an expensive outlay.)

In the meantime we
Canadians should attempt -to
make better use of our oral and
written forms of com-
munication, It will no doubt be
many years before we have the
availability of anything like
extra sensory perception. If you
wonder how your firends are
hunt up the address and senda
few lines. Write to those who are
confined to a home or hospital,
or to anyone who has lost a
loved one. In ‘other words do
unto others as you would have
them do unlo you. :

Tracy Skead has been in
hospital at Kitimat recently and -
should be returning home
around the middle of the month.
However it will be quite some
time before Tracy will be
making another trip up the
mountain, or taking any other
long hikes. We all wish him a
successful recovery and many
happy walking days in the years
ahead.

It was good to see Howard
Bush again recently, on his way
oul lo a meeting of the 1.W.A. in
Vancouver, The Camp mem-
bers have missed his competent
and conscientious secretary,
and it is-hoped Howard will be
back where the action is in the
very near future.

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The recent storms in the area
are giving a good test to the
roofs of the houses that were
tarred during the summer, The
only damage reported so far
was some floor inundation
where the strong winds helped
blow the collected water, in
from the cement porch floor.
Maintenance people made a trip
up from Terrace to attempt to
repair several leaks in the
primary building roof. This was
after Miss Marylyn Lancaster
had spent several of her mor-
nings mopping up the floor.

Several other jobs were also
attended to. ’

Word from Masset has it that
the B.C. Canuck was used
several times lately by the
R.C.M.P, after a recent boat
explosion and drowning. Ed
Woode was at the wheel, and
has since reported in detail to
Vie Bryant, the boat’s owner.

Other news from the area is
that- Randy and Haaken
Stenersen: and baby daughter
will be moving into their
newly purrchased trailer at
Justkatla. .No doubt all three
will be happy to be out of their 2
room basement suite. .In an
earlier letter we heard
Haaken’s eyes had opened
pretty wide when Ed Woode
lifted his crab trap and it was
full of crabs! No doubt Haaken
has been enjoying his fill of sea
foods since the move to the
Queen Charlottes.

Minnie Friesen and helpers
entertained at a baby shower
for one of Nass Camp’s new
mothers, Sharon Ritchie this
past Wednesday afternoon.

Up for a visit to her family
members and Grandma and
Grandpa Cure were daughter
Donna and her two ‘simall
daughters. Sister Ronda
travelled up from Terrace for a
week-end during this occasion.

Bud Brown had _ back
problems after a week-end of

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‘The Sooke School Centennial

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