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A Ceylon Sportsman’s Diary

1921

By this time mainly owing to the fact that nothing had been accomplished for the better protection of game except in the hill country the membership originally well over 200 had dwindled down to 64 so that it was obviously necessary for the sake of the future existence of the Society that something should be accomplished in the near future. [...] As soon as possible after the advent of the late Sir Henry McCallum the writer as honorary secretary of the Society sent him the detailed report on dstruction of game drawn up in 1906-7 with the result that His Excellency early in 1908 appointed a Commission to report on all the Game Ordinances and the question of the protection of game. [...] In the matter of destruction of game the writer was able to give the Commission convincing facts and figures and the eventual result was the proclamation of the Dried. [...] The fortifications are still in good order if one knows where to look for them—as a matter of fact the Alut Oya -Kauduluwewa road passes through the very middle of the fort —but the rampart each side has been thrown down into the outer ditch in the making of the road. [...] Word was at once sent to camp and then there was a " tamasha !" The Princess came along accompanied by the whole of the inhabitants of the camp so far as I could see ; everybody talked at once full of excitment ; the Prince posed by the elephant and on the elephant whilst cameras clicked in all directions and great were the rejoicings ! Finally we all returned to camp and the Princess and sui
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Pages
327
Published in
Sri Lanka
SARF Document ID
sarf.146250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Harry Storey view
A Ceylon Sportsman’s Diary
1-262 Harry Storey view
Index
263-274 Harry Storey view

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