224: PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



New Zeaiaud. 'Svitliiii tliG jurisclictioii of tliG Government of 

 the Colony of New Zealand." The "Handbook 

 of the Fishes of New Zealand," already cited, a 

 book "prepared under the instructions of the 

 Commissioner of Trade and Customs," reviews 

 at some length the seal life and industry of the 

 Colony, and in advocating stringent protection 

 states that "seals are property the State should 

 zealously guard." In pursuance of the foregoing 

 cited laws and regulations the Government of 

 New Zealand has kept a cruiser in service for 

 some years for the purpose of patrolling the 

 waters of the Colon}'- and enforcing the law.^ It 

 is now proposed to lease the exclusive right to 

 take seals within the limits of the Colony to a 



Cape of Good Company.^ In the Colony of the Cape of Good 

 Hope sealing is prohibited at the rookeries and 

 in the waters adjacent thereto, except under 

 stringent regulations.^ The laws and regulations 

 of the British colonies just cited have reference 

 to the fur-seals of the South Seas, similar in their 

 habits to the seal herd of the Pribilof Islands, 



1 Reports, Marine Department of New Zealand, 1882, 1883, 1887, 

 1888. 



2 "Handbook of the Fishes of New Zealand," p. 254. 

 a George Comer, Vol. II, p. 597; William C. B. Stamp, Vol. II, 



p. 576. 



Hope 



