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increase of numbers. So great has become the damage done 

 by this unwonted increase that "with a view to preventing 

 or reducing injury to crops or wastage of pasturage," special 

 Orders have recently been issued (17 April 1917) by the 

 Board of Agriculture for Scotland and the corresponding 

 bodies in England and Ireland, authorizing and encouraging 



the killing and taking, the sale and purchase, and the possession of any 

 birds or hares or rabbits at any time when the killing and taking, the sale 

 and purchase, or the possession thereof would othersvise be unlawful, 



and granting these liberties to persons who have no game- 

 licences and no rights according to the laws of game pro- 

 tection. 



