Names and addresses of instructors are printed and published each year and 

 distributed to our district offices so that new applicants can obtain the course 

 readily. 



PUBLIC RELATIONS 



(a) As each new instructor is certified he is given free an instructor's brazzard 

 which he can sew on his jacket which properly and readily identifies him. A stock 

 pile of student "Safe Hunter" shoulder patches is maintained by the Department 

 for purchase at cost by conservation clubs, and instructors for presentation to their 

 graduates. 



(b) News of hunter safety training activities is contained once a month in the 

 Department News Release. This Release is issued to some 2,000 newspapers, 

 magazines, outdoor writers, conservation clubs, and radio and television stations. 



(c) Staff members made a few appearances on television, each of a 1 5-minute 

 duration featuring a question and answer programme. Also 10 interviews were 

 given on radio by staff members. Innumerable spot announcements were made on 

 radio, mainly during the fall hunting season. 



Defective Firearms — All firearms seized from hunters for various infractions 

 of the game laws become the property of the Crown (in this case, the Department 

 of Lands and Forests). With respect to what are considered lesser offences, the 

 weapons are offered to the former owner and if they are in any way defective or 

 unsafe the owner is so advised. 



The remainder of the firearms are retained and sold by auction annually in a 

 public sale by this Department. Before they are sold they are inspected by hunter 

 safety training officers and all unsafe and defective firearms are removed from 

 such sales. The firearms that go on sale are then known by the public to be in 

 safe and efficient condition. All defective and unsafe firearms removed from the 

 sale are distributed to our 22 district offices where instructors can borrow them for 

 demonstration purposes in classroom work. 



GAME LAWS 



In 1961, a new section was added to The Game and Fish Act whereby a 

 hunter could have a charge laid against him due to hunting carelessly. The penalty 

 could be up to $1,000 or imprisonment up to one year or both. The following 

 table shows the action that has been taken and the disposition of the charges made 

 under this section during the past few years: 



FECIAL SERVICES 



The Department has what is described as a Junior Forest Ranger Programme, 

 le of the purposes of this programme is to give on-the-job training to approxi- 

 mately 1600 high school students (17 years of age) interested in making forestry 

 or other related occupations a career. Junior forest rangers are supervised in a 



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