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and out of season, and at the risk of becoming nuisances, all 

 reasonable and effective game preservation, and on right lines. 

 And we maintain that this can best be done by Imperial Govern- 

 ment action in the case of Grown Golonies and Protectorates; by 

 a healthy and active public opinion working through Golonial 

 Governments in the case of self-governing Colonies. And it may 

 as well be understood here that effective preservation means more 

 expenditure of money. Space will only permit me now to add that 

 the pressing field for remedial action is, at present, in Africa. Much 

 has been done there already, partly as a result of the International 

 Conference of 1900, partly in consequence of the growth of a 

 healthy public opinion on the subject in British Africa itself, and 

 partly, I am glad to think, as a result of the action of the Society 

 already referred to. The further general recommendations of this 

 Society are before the Colonial Office, and are set out in a memo- 

 randum lately submitted to Lord Elgin. 



