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trees, receiving in all 90,547 trees. Planting upon municipal and Crown lands 

 required a little over 5,000,000 plants. The interest in reclamation and planting 

 of waste lands seems to keep up and many people are taking advantage of the 

 Department's distribution for this purpose. 



Revenue 



While the actual business in connection with the sale and cutting of timber 

 and the issue of Timber Licenses amounted to only $2,492,333.76, the actual 

 amount collected under this service was $3,042,753.25, a considerable portion 

 of which had been charges due under the heavy operating, with its large accruals, 

 during 1930. Appendix 9 lists the various items and amounts. 



Land collections covering sale and lease of lands for all purposes and certain 

 refunds as shown in Appendix 4 added $655,637.96 to the above figure, making 

 a gross revenue of $3,698,391.21, which, when reduced by expenditure refunds 

 of $1,625.83 for timber dues, mill fees and transfer fees, as shown in Appendix 9, 

 and of $304,843.76 for fire protection, gives a net revenue Ordinary and Capital 

 of $3,391,921.62, made up of $2,439,724.42 Ordinary and $952,197.20 Capital, 

 as against a total revenue for 1930 of $3,307,945.49, made up of $2,532,603.28 

 Ordinary and $775,342.21 Capital. 



While the revenue of last year included the Fire Protection Taxes which 

 were all treated as Ordinary, this year's Ordinary Revenue, as shown in the 

 Public Accounts, will be debited to the extent of such charges, amounting to 

 $304,843.73. It may also be observed that this year's collections on timber 

 dues and bonus are all classed as Ordinary Revenue, rather than on the basis 

 of 70 per cent. Ordinary and 30 per cent. Capital as heretofore. This new 

 analysis has been adopted after a careful inventory of the present timber stand 

 and annual increment in growth throughout the Province, which has justified 

 the conclusion that in relation to the entire forest area of the Province and the 

 annual increment the Capital resources of the forest are not being invaded. 



Expenditures 



The total disbursements of the entire Department for the year amount to 

 $3,542,163.05, as against $3,834,684.37, for last year or a difference of 

 $292,531.32. This year's gross expenditures, however, have been reduced by 

 the amount received from Fire Protection Taxes, viz., $304,843.76, which leaves 

 a net expenditure of $3,237,319.29, of which $2,130,425.83 is Ordinary and 

 $1,106,893.46 is Capital. 



The increase in Ordinary expenditures, after deducting from Fire Ranging 

 outlay the Fire Tax collections, over last year is $66,505, and while in certain 

 services reductions occurred, increases were found in fire ranging and park services 

 that account for the difference. Capital expenditures throughout the year 

 were less by $319,458.34 than the previous year. The large items of expenditure 

 are in connection with Reforestation, Forest Protection, Forest Ranging, Surveys 

 and clearing Townsites to remove fire hazards. This coming year will necessarily 

 see an important reduction in Capital accounts due to the retrenchment measures 

 being adopted. 



