ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38 



GENER. 



Licenses — 



Tourist Outfitters $ 5,790.00 



Guides 7,782.00 



$ 13.572.00 



Fines 11,561.50 



Costs 664.62 



Sales — Confiscated articles 10,683.74 



Rent 3,229.00 



Commission 1,959.63 



Miscellaneous 231.00 



$ 41,901.49 



$ 867,222.81 



EXPERIMENTAL FUR FARM — 



Sales — Pelts 1,258.08 



Gross Ordinary Revenue $ 868,480.89 



DEDUCT — 



Revenue applied in reduction of Expenditures — 



Main Office — Costs $ 664.62 



Experimental Fur Farm — Sale of Pelts .... 1,258.08 



1,922.70 



Net Ordinary Revenue $ 866,558.19 



Again I am privileged to report an increase in the amount of the total ordinary 

 revenue which was collected by this department during the year under review. The 

 total figure of $866,558.19 is the largest yet produced in any one fiscal year, and is 

 $84,340.56 in excess of the previous high total, viz: — that of $782,217.63 collected 

 in 1936-37. 



This increase is attributable principally to the larger revenue derived from the 

 sale of non-resident angling and hunting licenses in 1937-38 as compared with the 

 figures for 1936-37. The sale of such angling licenses in 1936-37 produced 

 $272,690.50 as compared with a total of $331,430.45 from a similar source in 

 1937-38, an increase of practically sixty thousand dollars. This is an interesting 

 and encouraging sign. The tourist is evidently finding out what the resident 

 fisherman already knows, that as a result of the energetic restocking of the past 

 few years, Ontario waters keep on improving, despite the intensity with which 

 they are being fished. The economic possibilities of this seasonal business loom 

 larger than ever before, and we believe the people of the Province are becoming 

 increasingly conscious of the necessity for conserving and continually renewing the 

 fish and game resources which add so much to the attractiveness of this Province 

 as a vacation resort. From the sale of non-resident hunting licenses in 19 37-38 

 we derived $18,432.50 in excess of the revenue derived from that source in the 

 previous fiscal year, so that of the total increase of $84,340.56 to which previous 

 reference has been made, the sum of $77,172.45 was due to the increased sale of 

 various non-resident hunting and angling licenses. 



Revenue exceeded expenditure, both ordinary and capital, by $302,619.86. 

 Ordinary expenditures totalled $513,383.80, some of the principal items of this 

 expenditure being $212,038.54 on the work of enforcing provisions of the Game 

 and Fisheries Act, and $166,939.91 on Fish Hatchery Service. Other items of 

 ordinary expenditure include $10,662.43 spent in connection with the propagation of 



