XD2/3824
LETTER: Charles H. Wynn, Rug, to R.R. Roberts, Agent to the Rug’ Estate, Corwen, for circulation to tenants. Many tenants have little interest in the preservation of game, which is getting less and less common; there are no longer any hares. The destruction of ground game is being carried on by incompetent persons, and the tenants are using guns. Tenants never report poachers. Dogs are taken ploughing, harrowing and sowing when not needed, and so pass the time in hunting and destroying nests and young game. Barbed wire is being used when rails would do just as well, and this frustrates hunting. He has spent over and above his means to improve tenants’ farms, and so he does not think be is being unreasonable in asking for their co-operation. If he does not get this, he will have to let the sporting rights to a tenant who will employ more gamekeepers; or else he will have to put his relationship with his tenants on a purely commercial footing, a course he would deplore.
Cyngor Gwynedd