24 THE SOCIETY EOB THE PBESEKVATION OP 



Transvaal, and has hundreds of members. Its object is to secure 

 observance of the game laws generally, and especially to check 

 the terrible destruction done to fur and feathered game by irre- 

 sponsible Kaffirs. A printed list is published periodically of 

 prosecutions undertaken and convictions secured through the 

 medium of members of the Society. Naturally its efforts are 

 principally directed towards the preservation of the game in the 

 more inhabited and civilised districts, in which the members as 

 a rule live, and its influence is already widely felt. 



This article cannot be brought to a conclusion without a word 

 being said as to the enormous assistance which the united Land 

 Companies have given to game protection by lending Govern- 

 ment their hearty support, as well as by allowing their property 

 in the low country to be included in the Government Game 

 lieserves. As the private land owned by these companies com- 

 prises much of the best of the game country, and as they have 

 granted full powers to the Government for the protection of the 

 game on it, it can easily be seen how much their action has helped 

 the general object in view. 



