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As soon as these questions were ready for distribution, notice was given 
through the public press to this effect, and sportsmen and others interested in 
the question of the protection, preservation and propagation of the game and 
fish in the Province, and who were willing to aid your Commissioners by giving 
them the benefit of their advice and Expenenes were requested to send for a set 
of the tabulated questions. 
The result of this notice was astonishing, for hardly had the advertisements 
appeared, before letters came pouring in from all parts of the Province and from 
all classes of the community, asking for copies of the questions, and promising 
assistance and co-operation in every possible shape and form. 
In addition to the answers received to the above-mentioned questions, 
hundreds of interesting communications were received, not only from residents 
of the Province, but from sportsmen outside of Ontario, and these have in most 
eases been of great assistance to your Commissioners, and are hereby gratefully 
acknowledged. | 
It is gratifying to be able to state that, in travelling through the Province, 
your Commissioners found the work of the Commission to be highly popular, and 
it may safely be said, judging from opinions universally expressed, that the 
Commission was not issued a day too soon. 
The work of collecting the information has been pleasant if laborious, and 
much valuable information has been acquired. 
In reference to the answers given by witnesses, it is necessary to state that 
whilst a complete record has been kept, some of them are comparatively value- 
less; because they have been given from purely selfish motives. The true sports- 
men, and those desirous of seeing the Province re-stocked with game and fish, 
have invariably expressed a willingness to sink all smaller considerations in order 
that the most good might be done. But others with narrower minds have given 
such answers as are applicable only to their own cases ; some of them going so 
far as to say that no steps of any kind should be taken to preserve the game and 
fish in Ontario, because these were already scarce and might as well be used up by 
the present generation. 
The following table will show the dates and places at which meetings were 
held by your Comiissioners, and the names of the witnesses who appeared to give 
evidence. 
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