Minister's Annual Report 

 For Year Ending October 31st. 1933 



STAFF CHANGES 



In January last, death removed an old and valued employee of the Depart- 

 ment, in the person of J. W. Millar. 



Mr. Millar was originally with the Department of Game and Fisheries, 

 but was transferred years ago to the Department of Lands and Forests, subse- 

 quent to which he became Acting Superintendent of Algonquin Park, where 

 he remained for a considerable time. When the late J. H. McDonald was 

 appointed Superintendent of the Park, Mr. Millar was transferred to the 

 Patents Branch at Head Office. He was superannuated June 1st, 1931, but 

 retained in the Service till his death on January 27th, 1933. 



At the end of the fiscal year Jas. I. Hart, was superannuated, due to ill 

 health. Coming to the Department in 1923, he undertook liaison work be- 

 tween the Operator in the field and Head Office, with considerable success, 

 and he will be missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances in the 

 official field. 



To fill the vacancy caused by the demise of the late Jos. Milway, Frank 

 E. Rowe was appointed Crown Timber Agent at Port Arthur on June 6th, 

 1933. Mr. Rowe has had long and varied experience in this field, and will 

 no doubt do credit to the work. 



Nine members of the staff were superannuated during the fiscal year. 

 These, in the persons of A. E. Robillard, F. E. Blanchet, W. V. Cragg, H. B. 

 Owen, A. H. Huckson, J. I. Hart, A. Moran, D. Valentine and Jas. Mclntyre, 

 represented a great many years of faithful service in the Surveys Branch, the 

 Lands Branch, The Woods Branch and the Provincial Parks. 



In the endeavour to meet, so far as possible, falling revenues, economies 

 have been effected by a decrease in the numerical strength of the staff and 

 temporary readjustment of duties, to take over those of employees who are 

 for one reason and another no longer in the Service. 



LAND TRANSACTIONS 



Lands disposed of under the Public Lands Act may be Leased, Licensed, 

 Sold or Located, and those granted under the Mining Act and otherwise alien- 

 ated from the Crown are all subject to reigstration by the Department of 

 Lands and Forests. 



Having regard to the necessity of providing a regular and continuous 

 ordinary revenue there has been a gradual development towards leasing or 



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