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Hon. Harry Nixon, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Fish and Game, advised the Northern On-- tario Tourist Trade Association that the government would consider its request for the abolition of the 60 cents royalty on bears taken as trophies. Urges Planes Be Used. The issue arose when J. M. Cooper (Lib., Sudbury) suggested the committee might obtain views on Sunday shooting from the dele-- gations present. Northern -- Ontario spokesmen urged that the provincial air serv-- ice planes, used for forestry patrol in the summer, be employed during' the winter months for game laws : enforcement. They pointed out that abservers were able to detect with ease the operations of illegal hunts-- men by their tracks in the snow. Committee members elected W. L. Miller (Lib., Algoma Manitoulin) as chairman. Mr. Nixon advised the committee interest in hunting and fishing was increasing yearly. Last year, the department distributed a record number of game birds and that this year, 30,000, chiefly phea-- sants, would be distributed. "We'd go down with an awful bump if we try that," he said. "I hope we have not come down to that level. I hope we never have the question brought up again." More full--time overseers were asked for Kenty County by Howard Clark, vice--president of the Kent County Sportsmen's Association. He asked that all waters, marshes and lands outside normal high water mark along the shores of Lake St. Clair and all waters in and adjacent to Kent be declared Crown lands for public hunting and fishing and that existing leases be cancelled. Mr. Nixon advised that many of the leases were granted by the Fed-- eral Department of Indian Affairs. Sportsmen themselves, at yester-- day's informal meeting with the committee members, indicated that they would not favor any concerted drive for Sunday shooting. William Gastle, Fruitland, honorary presi-- dent of the Ontario Hunters' Asso-- clation, was outspoken:in his oppo-- sion. Such a move, he said, would put sportsmen in bad repute. Essex County sportsmen asked for restrictions on the number of jack rabbits which could be killed and exported to United States. An education campaign among young people on conservation was advo-- cated by Jack Griffiths, Freeman, While the question of Sunday shooting, raised yesterday in the Legislature Fish and Game Com-- mittee at Queen's Park, may again be brought before the committee today, it was reported that the Hep-- burn administration was unaiter-- ably opposed to any extension of gunning privileges to the Sabbath. ROD LICENSE URGED Sportsmen, Themselves, Not Not in Favor of Extension of Privilege, Fearing Bad Repute Through Ontario OPPOSE MOVE FOR HUNTING ON SABBATH Mr. Wilford agreed and added he was petitioning for a fee reduction only in the case of members who held club property in Canada. '"There's no complaint about the price of liquor," suggested Mr. Nixon. He claimed fishermen seemed to be favored in department expendi-- tures over hunters and he suggest-- ed a rod license would produce a revenue of $150,000 a year, There was, he said, no reason why anglers Complaint that the $25 deer 1i-- cense and $40 moose license for United States hunters was too high was made by Earl J. Wilford of the Kent Canadian Club, Kent, Ohio, who said members had a lodge in Haliburton. Northern game wardens were un-- able to cover the large territories assigned to them, claimed A. J. San-- son, Sudbury Fish and Game Asso-- clation. Robert Burns, Sault Ste. Marie, said deer and moose were becoming increasingly scarce in Southern Algoma and he suggest-- ed illegal hunting by Indians and others, wolves and fires was re-- sponsible. spokesman for the Lincoln, Welland and Halton sportsmen. This move | was also advovated by H. W. Huns-- berry, Jordan Station, spokesman for the Ontario Hunters' Associa-- tion. He asked for an Increasedf bounty on wolves and that only British subjects be granted resi-- dent hunting licenses, Ask Fishing Licenses, should not be licensed the same as hunters. Marex 30