As noted, a number of firearms were offered on the Port Arthur sale which 

 had been seized by the Ontario Provincial Police and these brought $208.50. The 

 net proceeds from items seized for game and fish offences amounted to $9,604.00. 



Hunter Safety Training 



The Hunter Safety Training Programme in Ontario has many purposes. The 

 primary purpose, of course, is the teaching of new hunters the fundamentals of safe 

 gun handling. Secondly, the course is designed to teach the newcomers a little of 

 game management, the problems that go with it, and how one ties in with the 

 other. During the past year, the effect of the progress being made in this pro- 

 gramme is being felt in various related lines. For example, the impact being made 

 on hunters from laying charges in the courts under the "careless hunting" section 

 in the Game and Fish Act. 



HUNTING ACCIDENTS 



The Uniform Hunter Casualty Report Form as issued by the National Rifle 

 Association has been used by this Department since the year 1954 and has proven 

 most satisfactory. However, it was only since September, 1959, that we have been 

 able to keep a complete check of hunting accidents and this was largely due to 

 the co-operation that has been obtained from the Ontario Provincial Police in 

 supplying reports of casualties coming to their attention. The following table shows 

 the breakdown in hunting accidents, together with the total number of hunting 

 licenses sold in the province. 



(a) The course is given to prospective hunters by some 3,000 instructors 

 certified by the Department. On September 1, 1960, it became compulsory for all 

 new resident first-time hunters, regardless of age, to successfully complete and 

 pass this course. Since the start of the program in Ontario in the fall of 1957 and 

 up to the end of December, 1965, there have been 102,611 students graduated. 

 To mark the occasion of the graduation of the 100,000th student the Department 

 presented both the student and the instructor with suitable awards. An arms com- 

 pany presented the 17 year old boy with a pump gun. 



It will be seen from the following table that there are now an appreciable 

 number of graduates in the hunting field who have had at least a certain amount 

 of training with the gun. In a few years' time at the present rate of graduation, 

 their presence, it is hoped, will definitely be felt in the hunting field and it is also 

 hoped that at that time the hunting accident tables will bear out this assumption. 



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