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the wood stealer can then recover his implements and continue

his cutting.

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This Ordinance is an attempt to preserve the planetations

from such depredations by making it an offence to enter any

prohibited forestry area without lawful authority or excuse.

It will be much easier to detect and prove presence in such an

area than to prove actual cutting or stealing.

4. The area will be declared by the Governor in Council in

each case to be a prohibited area, and the boundaries will be

marked or indicated by means of fire barriers or otherwise.

Warning notices in English and Chinese will be placed along

the boundaries at intervals not greater than 440 yards.

E. It is obviously necessary to make the ptohibition of

entry into the prohibited area an absolute one applying to all

persons, because it is clearly impossible to distinguish the

class of persons who would be likely to cut and steal wood.

This absolute prohibition, which thus seems to be necessary

in any case, has the alditional advantage of tending to prevent

damage by fire or by trampling which might be caused through

the carelessness of shooting and picnic parties.

6. As the prohibition will be absolute, regulations in the

Schedule to the Wild Birds Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 15

of 1922, are being amended so as to prohibit the shooting or

taking of game in an area prohibited under the present Ordi-

nance, or the entry into such an area in pursuit of game or

for the purpose of taking nests or eggs. The regulations

in question will be further amended so as to provide for the

insertion on the form of game licence of a note drawing atten-

tion to the probibition now proposed.

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