Mr. Lowe has given up his reduction of the game-licence
duty, but he has not given up his duty on carrying a gun, so that any schoolboy who goes out shooting at a mark must buy a licence value E1 sterling, but men in possession of a game licence may shoot at a mark without further charge. This does, in fact, add to the security of game, and therefore it is popular. Rustics who have hitherto carried a gun on the excuse of shooting at small birds, but really not without hopes of getting a shot at a partridge or a hare now and then, will have to furnish themselves with a licence at a cost not very convenient. The result will be that they will often cease to carry guns at all, and so be kept out of the way of temptation. And this in, of course, very popular 'with game preservers, in spite of the new tax on their sons' guns.
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