BOAT LICENSING 



Considerable correspondence and contacts with various field 

 offices and the Dominion Department of Transport are involved in this 

 responsibility in the period under review. Forty-seven additional 

 water craft were licensed, bringing the total to 782. 



OFFICE SPACE 



Despite the acquisition of certain space and internal 

 relocations and adjustments, the urgent need for adequate office space 

 remained unresolved. However, toward the end of the fiscal year, some 

 alleviation was in sight for about 25,000 square feet, in the property 

 at 160 Richmond Street West (the former Brigden Building), was released 

 for the use of this department by the Public Works Department as new 

 quarters for the stock and receiving rooms. The coimnencement of 

 renovation and reconstruction was made in March, but it will be a 

 few months before possession will be available. On completion, these 

 larger quarters are expected to provide some relief for the stock and 

 receiving sections which now occupy a most congested area. The release 

 of the present stockroom quarters in the coming fiscal year will provide 

 some measure of relief from overcrowded office quarters for one section 

 of this division. 



SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS 



Arrangements for accommodation, transportation, conferences 

 and meetings, such as the midday meetings of the Forestry Advisory 

 Committee and the weekly meetings of the Division Chiefs, were under- 

 taken by this section. Supervision of the demolition of buildings on 

 property in Algonquin Park continued in the care of this section. 



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