REVIEW OF PROVINCIAL GAME LEGISLATION 279 
appoint game wardens and district game inspectors. Regis- 
tered guides and chief forest rangers are ex officio game 
wardens. 
There appears to be an insufficient number of game 
wardens in the province, and a consequent failure to enforce 
fully the provisions of the game act. The sale of deer, 
caribou, and certain protected game-birds is prohibited, but 
such prohibition should also include moose and wild fowl. 
We would also urge the indefinite continuation of the 
close season on cow moose and caribou, as it is certain that 
without such means of increasing its abundance the caribou 
will become a thing of the past in Nova Scotia. The desira- 
bility of establishing one or more game reserves in Nova 
Scotia has already been pointed out (see p. 256). 
New Brunswick.—The Game Act of 1909, with later 
amendments, is administered by the Minister of Lands and 
Mines. As aresult of recent reorganization the protection 
of game has been combined with the forestry work, and the 
provincial forester is in charge of both services with a chief 
game guardian to superintend the enforcement of the 
game laws. The duties of game warden and forest ranger 
are combined, and there are many obvious advantages to 
such an arrangement. The number of ea officio game 
wardens has been greatly increased. An applicant for a 
game license is now required to take an oath that he will 
observe the game laws. This requirement should be more 
widely adopted; it will help to eliminate the ‘‘unfit”’ hunter. 
Two steps taken by the Province of New Brunswick in 
1918 are highly commendable. In the first place, the policy 
of appointing game wardens by a qualifying examination 
has been adopted in place of the patronage system. Such 
a method of securing efficient and qualified officers cannot be 
too highly praised, and its adoption by other governments 
would do more than anything else to bring about an effec- 
tive conservation of our game animals. The second wise 
