Report of the Department of Lands and Forests for fiscal year ending March 31, 1950 



Page 116 



Table No. 24 



SUMMARY OF SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED AND AWARDS IN THE 



VARIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT 



NUMBER OF 



SUGGESTIONS 



RECEIVED 



TOTAL AMOUNT 

 OF AWARDS 



AID RENDERED TO THE PUBLIC 



During the year members of the staff have participated in several rescues of persons whose 

 lives were endangered through accidents or otherwise. 



On July 24 a group of Junior Rangers working near Thessalon were instrumental in 

 recovering the body of one Walter McCreight within 10 minutes of his drowning while wading in 

 McCreight Dam, with two of his children. The Rangers applied artificial respiration for four 

 hours but the unfortunate man could not be revived. A son aged 7 was revived with the help of 

 the rangers, while the other child suffered no consequences. 



A conservation officer in the Parry Sound District while in the course of his duties protecting 

 one of the fish sanctuaries in the Georgian Bay, saw a boat containing two fishermen capsize 

 suddenly and throw the men into the water. Within a few minutes he had reached the scene and 

 dragged the two near-e.xhausted men into his own craft. They apparently suffered no ill effects, but 

 it was fortunate help was near. 



One afternoon in June a loudspeaker-equipped aircraft of the Department was diverted from 

 i*s patrol by radio, to flfy an injured bushworker from a camp near Rufus Lake to hospital at 

 Kapuskasing. 



The loudspeaker was used to direct the logging crew on the ground to pack the man to a 

 spot near clear water where the plane could be landed 



With the unfortunate man aboard, the officers flew to Kapuskasing and landed on the river. 

 In a comparatively short time after the incident the patient was resting comfortably in thu 

 hospital at Kapuskasing. 



ADVISORY COMMITTEE 



Forest Insect Laboratory, S.ault Ste. Marie 

 A meeting of the advisory committee of the Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, was 

 held in the office of the Dominion Entomologist, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 

 on October 29th, 1949. 



This was the seventh meeting of the committee and there was a full discussion of all matters 

 relating to forest insect control in Ontario and the program of work for the ensuing year was 

 approved. 



MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE 

 Dominion Department Ontario Department 



of Agriculture of Lands and Forests 



H. G. Crawford 



J. J. DE Gryse 



Dr. M. L. Prebble 



R. X. Johnston 

 Dr. C. E. At wood 

 J. A. Brodie 



